Skateboarding at the park

I looked up and there he was flying thru the air. All comments

welcome. Thanks for looking, Bill

I'm going to give this a bad review. Most of the action is obscured by the fence. You should have moved in front of the bridge for a better angle.

Part of my dislike for this photo is not entirely your fault, it's the skater's. With skateboarding photography you really want the photo to look like he is going to land the trick, not just jump and kick your board out of the way. Sometimes a skater can easily land a trick but will "bail" in the middle of it because of balance or just confidence issues. This looks like one of those instances. It is then the photographer's job to either shoot enough photos to get one that looks like a winner or have a good enough eye to not take the bad ones. Anyhow, I have a supercritical eye for skate photos because I grew up skateboarding and learned the art of photography by shooting my friends while skating.

On the good side it is well exposed, focused and has frozen the action well enough. Still, good technical specifics don't always make for a good photo. Keep looking for oportunites to photograph skaters and don't be afraid to ask them to retry something if you think it makes a good photo.

Thanks Michael,

For your intrest I did ask him to do it again but he said he was going to practice some more before he let me take any more pictures of him busting his fanny. (he wasn't skint too bad),Bill