X-Games Vert Ramp BMX/Skateboard

These are from the stands, I had no pass to speak of. The noise and crops made me be a bit creative with my editing. If you would like to see more they are up on my site, I hope you enjoy the shots.

Michael

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great shots

Thanks, totally different sport for me to shoot, I would love to shoot this outdoors.

By the way, I really found that I enjoyed shooting skateboarding any suggestions as to where would be a nice place to start off in southern California? I am finding the tournaments to be a bit strict as to who is allowed to shoot. Btw I do have a lot of experience when it comes to shooting sporting tournaments in the form of paintball for about 8 years.

Nice stuff man, I'd suggest just talking with some of the homies down there and checking your resources, I'm sure you can find some pretty solid skaters to shoot if ya just ask around. Shooting sessions is way more fun than just an event anyways!

Thanks Jimmy I have been looking into it, it really lit a fire in me seeing how exciting it is live versus tv.

haha I hear ya its fun to shoot for sure, but imo only with riders who are actually capable of doing cool stuff haha

ya I guess I got a bit spoiled the first time, Iso I guess everyone on a bike is not doing no handed flips?

Really nice shots, I would like to see them before the crops! Really nice though

Trust me these are severe crops (most) I was shooting with a Canon 5d Mark II and a 70-200mm 2.8f in RAW so I had a ton of dead space. What amazed me was that I was able to actually hit my focus point over 90% of the time (the 5d m2 is not as good at tracking as my 1d M2 that I use for sports).

Most of the photos I took without the net was durring practice when I was able to go up to the net to shoot. I think you will be able to tell right away if I was close or farther away from the action.

These are amazing, simply put.

Thank you Justin!!

By the way if you would like to see a bunch more (ya I rode the button) check out my gallery at http://www.chrono300.c​om, and be sure to let me know what you think of my crops because I am really interested.

6 is legit Mike.

Wow Robbo you are everywhere! Thanks man I really dig that shot a bunch but I was not sure what people would think of the edit with tons o noise.

Composition is a bit tight... at least include a bit of the ramp so you can see how big they are going.