Rob Nanna - Rocket Air - Dublin Skate Park

Rob Nanna - Rocket Air - Dublin Skate Park - Dublin, Ca - Let me know

what you think! Thanks

great shot!

I'm very much an amateur (just started to get into "real" film photography at the end of last summer), so my opinion shouldn't carry much weight...but the one thing I noticed initally is that it looks very flat and underexposed perhaps?

 

Maybe that was your intention, but as I struggled through my early beginner stages (and even now when I misjudge exposure), I found that quite a few of my shots came out very flat like this - lacking in color saturation, and contrast more importantly...so it caught my attention immediately as I'm so used to seeing so many of my own scans looking like this. :)

 

Open the image in photoshop and apply an 'auto levels' to it and you'll see what I mean. I usually don't rely on auto levels (prefer tweaking the levels manually), but you'll see how much it POPS with the auto levels..

 

Otherwise, great capture....though my roots are in skateBOARDING so grrrrrr... ;)

Thank you for your comment... althought my roots are in inlineskating soo grrrrrr ;=)

 

On my monitor at home (that is calibrated) the exposure looks right on, even the histogram on my camera shows that it is the correct exposure for this shot. I did take a look at it at work (uncalibrated early 90's monitor) at it does look underexposed. Is your monitor calibrated properly? should I recalibrate my monitor again? I'd appreciate it if you or anyone else with a calibrated monitor could help me out and let me know if my monitor hot or cold. Tim, I also have tried using the "auto levels" before and "usually" have not liked the results. I always adjust levels if needed by selecting a black, white, and neutral color sample and adjusting from there. I know working with film and scanning negs is a whole different world than digital, along the lines of "helping" an image for web posting. I thought this image was about par with exposure as my other shots, but I could be wrong. Let me know what you think!

Photoshop would help this shot a lot. It needs level boosted, colors boosted, contrast boosted. It would really help to see the face of these persons.