adrian douglas

Shot with a fisheye + fill-flash. No the lens isn't dirty it was

60km/h winds

Shot slightly under-exposed with a slightly over-exposed off-camera

flash.

 

hey Kurt

 

A good effort at something that can be tricky. One possible improvement would be to turn down your flash a little as it's a little to hot and looks flashed. Try dropping your flash exposure down 2/3 to 1 2/3 of a stop for a more natural look.

 

Nice shot De Von but a little less of the tree far left as it's a little distracting

Freeriding is about air, Downhill is about the turns. Races are won

and lost in the turns and Dan Taliana knows it.

Does your flash have exposure compensation? If so try dialing it down 1/2-2/3 of a stop. This should reduce the "flashed" look but still give you good exposure.

Nice shot Jonathan. I've shot a few of my sister jumping and she always tells me it's best to get the horse at the peak of the jump with both feet above the rails. I guess then you would know that the horse cleared the jump and didn't knock the rails.

Nice work on the spray but I'd like to see at least a little of the riders face. From experience I know he'd have a huge grin it'd be sweet to see it. Gotta love BC, this brings back memories of Fernie.

Thanks Jim, I just shot with available light as it was coming through some amber perspex and produced a nice warm look. What's more important in Macro shots detail or look?

Thanks Edwin. I kind of like the DOF but I get what you mean about sharper on the edges.

Borrowed a macro lens from my mum to give macro a try. This is

actually a bump stop off my MTB forks. I just liked the pattern and

the natural light. I'm not sure what makes a good marco shot as it's

never really interested me before.

Ay Simon,

 

Canada kicks arse ay? This is a pretty good shot, nice composition, nice background, the balance between clouds and mountains is good, but I probabley would have used a little fill-flash to light your wife an bring her out in the shot.

Steven,

 

I think cropping out the section you mentioned would take away from the ramp detail and not show the viewer wher he came from. While I understand where your're coming from I think that the ramp in the bottom corner is needed.

What you've actually shot here is skimboarding, wakeboarding is done behind a boat. It's well focused and exposed but it's too centered and not enough action.

It's just a little Canon S45 so it probably got small camera syndrome

I really appreciate people checking out my work but to give low ratings, like 2s, and not comment on why defeats the entire purpose. I don't post my work for praise I post it in the hope people will help me improve. So if you are going to give a low rating and not post a comment why, don't bother.

You can really have fun with compact digitals.

Thanks mate, the hardest part was maintaining detail in the wall on the left side of the steps. I ended up bracketing 1 stop either side of 3 different exposures.

I know the title is pretty lame but I couldn't think of anything

else. This one shot doesn't do justice to how spectactular the whole

forrest looked when I took this.

This was originally a colour slide that was made B+W in PS7

Thanks for your ideas Robert but that was the whole idea. Tengu is mysterious which is why I pumped up the shadow to only reveil partial details.

Originally shot on Provia 100F and made B+W in PS7

When composing action shots two very important factors are where did he come from and where is he going.

This would have been really sick if the tube in front of him was open instead of closing down. It would given a feeling of him being able to make the barrel. As it is now it says "shutdown, better luck next time".

As the subject isn't dark enough for a nice sillouete here maybe a little fill-flash would have been the answer.