Snow Queen Trophy

Thanks for comments

Excellent shot. Very precise focus, excellent timing. T-Mobile should pay you big $$$ for this image!

Splendida !!!!

Excellent! Unfortunately she is low in the turn; your perspective of it, however, is precise. This was a difficult shot! Well done.

yes I agree this must been a difficult shot can u tell us the exposure and how did you take this shot?regards its great

Sorry I rushed,just saw the details...regards once more

Excellent, yery nice photo. Jitka

 

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This is a great photo. I saw the race on TV and the weather looks very bad indeed. Anyway for me this World Cup started bad because of the absences of Janica and Aamodt -my favorites-. All the best!

Excellent colours and composition, and well chosen.

Regards and good luck!

Lijepo

Good sports photography. I could be used in a commercial or something...

Artistic? Not even close.

Veoma lijepa sniježna akcija! bravo!

 

pozz, montenegro

Darius, I think I may understand your comment on artistry, but I disagree. This suggests that it's impossible to have a sports photo that involves artistry. If your definition is narrowly defined to be a staged image, or something in impressionistic focus or colors, I guess that's ok, but it seems really limiting. Each catgory has its own elements. I think composition, "pose", expressions, they all impact artistry for sports. This one has strong elements in all areas, and is technically difficult as well given that it's a night shot. There are plenty of artistic photos involving models or landscapes, but they have different challenges, not greater or lesser.

 

Of course you are free to disagree, but this is my dissenting view. Personally I think this is a very impressive and, within its genre, and nicely artistic image :)

Superlative capture made in difficult conditions. I would also beg to differ with Darius regarding it's artistic value. I think, just like any great photographer, one has to be able to intertwine science and art seamlessly, as it were. This image certainly does that in my opinion. The timing of the shot, the framing and the result give a glimpse into the technical difficulty of achieving such a result, but, like art should do, also tell a powerful story of the determination, skill and sheer grit of the skiier.

In any case, a winning image, whether commercial or artistic...

Mark

Donn, for each important "soccer" or football game, there are at least 20 photographers with cannon lenses that can make close-up photos with the players from a goal to another, 100 meters across the field. Are they all artists?

well done, cheers Jana

Excellent 7/7

Darius,

I'd say "yes", all are artists, maybe not all good ones. As distinguished from a mathematician or an attorney, it seems clear. There are places where you see many painters, or many landscape photographers, as well. But if that's wrong from your perspective, I'm willing to hear the alternate view. I suspect, though, that images of famous national parks, beaches, etc. would not be viable subjects for art either, if they are subjects that are photographed by too many people.

 

I look at this image and it's not just a random recording of an event, it's artfully created, imho.

Donn

You're correct to point out the number of photographers at any sporting event, yet it's just as illustrative to notice how many shots as compellng as Snow Queen Trophy come from any such event. Many of the most iconic photographs in history involved some luck. That does not diminish the effect of the finished picture.

Maybe you are right. Don`t know. Something... There must be something that makes me think this way. Maybe are agglomeration of brands and distracting colors?

That`s it! The colors! This is something of personal taste: I don`t like the bright pink and yellowish bright green.

Damir, did you tried it in B/W?

As a freelance sports photographer i can appreciate the skill required to capture such an image and that that along with many of your other postings you have the natural ability to be in the correct spot and the correct time, a must for all sports or any photographer for that matter.

 

It is not just about luck, it is about knowing your chosen subject, whatever that maybe and mastering all the variables, whether or not its art is irrelevant, what it is to me is a magnificent capture of a fast moving object in difficult conditions, well done 7/7

 

Sometimes our sporting images are not given enough credit for the difficulty in creating or capturing them, but how many portrait or landscape photographers can capture our chosen subject matter. Its relatively easy when everything is motionless in a sterile studio or still landscape shot, but try working in a force eight gale with sea spray and sand trying to capture a windsurfing event or night skiing, not for the feignt hearted.

 

Col Mac

A night skiing shot like this is testimony of the superb skills of the photographer. It stunned me in my tracks.

what ISO you used to make such a beatiful photo at night ?

Fantastic photo! You have a great portfolio... you truly are an artist.