andylynn

By some metrics for a traditional still photo this is nothing special, but it's not intended as a traditional still photo.

Clearly the photographer had a mind to make an illustration of the movements involved in executing this trick. I'm

guessing Dan has a particular interest in snowboarding.

As an illustration this would have been stronger, I think, if it had been cropped more to remove some of the sky and

snow top and bottom. Could have been printed as a panorama. My eye doesn't quite follow it from right to left - flipping

it horizontally might work better. (For westerners anyway.) I'm not ecstatic about how the background transitions

between white, white with shadow, blue and white again - if a different shooting position or location could have been

found to make the background simpler it would have better focused the attention on the subject.

Cool concept, I like it and think its successful but some more attention to that sort of detail would have pushed it over

from good to great. Also I suspect that this was actually shot in video? If it doesn't have enough resolution to make a

good size print with detail that would make it less strong.

Very nice light quality. I particularly like the ways the light highlights the texture of the white surface on the right side, and sets off the glow on the dome.

There's something about the lighting, sky color, material qualities, simplicity of the objects in the scene and the JPG artifacts in this particular copy that made my first reaction "this isn't a photo, it's a mental ray render". Is this HDR?