Sidewalk Slalom -- Wipeout!

After a nearly perfect run, interweaving his rollerblades between

the inverted cones, this 20-something after-hours skateboarder

suddenly wipes out on a downtown shopping district sidewalk in the

evening hours. Photo taken after dark, ISO 1600 available light,

Nikon D70, Nikkor 24~120 mm. f 3.5~5.6. Your ratings and comments

are very much appreciated. (Please support any harsh or very

critical ratings with a constructive comment/Please help me improve

my photography and share your superior knowledge). Thanks and

Enjoy! John.

Setup a tripod, and it could be ton of fun to do multiple exposures. Or a long exposure to capture the trail. Good job keep it up.

Photo taken in Hamburg, Germany.

I have portrayed in my photos the upper torso in every part of a rectangular or square frame, but this is a lower torso, and tilted at that.

 

Moreover, this figure is dynamic because it's in motion with appropriate blurriness.

 

Furthermore, it's astride a bisecting diagonal line from the sidewalk, and it's clear he's traveling down that sidewalk, which draws the viewer's eyes down that line to view the cones.

 

And that bisecting line divides the rectangle into two triangles -- strong, dynamic forms, helping make this simple photo pretty dynamic in its simplicity, I judge.

 

Moreover, if one draws an extension of the line of the skater's body through his torso through his leg to the other side of the frame one gets the completion of an (incomplete) second bisecting line, which completes an incomplete 'X' form.

 

That 'X' form literally would divide this image into four triangles of non-equal area and non-equal shape.

 

Too complicated?

 

Did anybody notice?

 

Did anybody care?

 

I care for this reason: This photo appealed to me for reasons that went beyond what I could describe and now I can describe it. If I can describe it, I can replicate it, not only with this subject but with others.

 

And if I can replicate it with other subjects, maybe in different circumstances, possibly I can teach it also to others or others can learn from this analysis, which is why I am writing it here instead of just thinking it and not sharing it.

 

Any thoughts?

 

John