Some skateboarding

[xsport652]

Hey,
Yea their kinda noisy cuz its ISO 400 on a P&S just for the heads up.
What do you think?

[Skyman]

I love the first 2 images. the grain adds to the feel of the shot and could possibly even cope with a little more grain. I like the effect on the first image but think the board is a little over saturated i have never seen a skateboard that colour even out of the shop and especially not after it has been ridden a bit. The third shot would work for a skateboard mag to show technique but photographically i would have liked more detail in the background or the rider to not be quite as stooped (i know you can't control that)

[payn817]

I like the first one, the composition is nice, and the noise adds to these. The only nit I have with the first one is also the color. After seeing these, I would try to print at a 8X10 or so, and see how bad the noise is, as it adds so much. Skate pictures shouldn't be all nice and pretty, IMO.

[jorgemonkey]

I like the second one the best, in the first one I'd desaturate the board a little bit. But I do agree that in this case the grain adds a lot to the feel of the pictures.

[picturetaker1239]

I've been skating for nearly 6 years and have gotten into the whole photography of it. In my preferance I dont like noise at all. Since skateboarding is seen as a "sport" that's looked down upon by most people I like to prove otherwise and instead of having dirty lenses and noisy pictures pictures I like to show skateboarding in an artistic fashion (even though some of my pictures on my profile would disagree). I am aware of the concept of having a coloured board and the rest of the picture b&w. its a good one, but the board could be desaturated a bit. next when you have no wide angle or fisheye lenses its best to get back a little farther to show where the skater is going. I have a hard time looking at pictures where you dont know where a subject is going. its very confusing. on the first picture have the skater on the top showing where he's going on the bottom of the frame (who cares if its a 3 or 4 set I can see from the wheelchair ramp its not a big one anyways). Dont always try to make your pictures look big with angles since you dont have much to work with when you have no exrta lenses other than a 35mm. In my opinion the last 2 pictures are too close. the second is just a little bit compared to the third. you have to keep in mind that when you watch your skate vids and see the camera guy with his camera really close like that nine and a half times out of ten he has a fisheye with 180 degrees of view. look up fisheyes on ebay you can usually pick one up for fifty or 60dollars for a point and shoot. Lastly I find night photography and low light skateboarding photography to be the most difficult because of the way shadows can make your pictures look crappy. before you upgrade to a better camera that has more flash features, try shooting during the day (since the fisheye extention might obscure the flash from getting to the whole frame because the lens is in the way) look around on ebay and look at skate mags to develop a feel for where your subject should be.

[xsport652]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. It was my first time shooting skateing and especially with low light. I plan to go alot more and try what you said. Thanks!

[payn817]

I've been skating for nearly 6 years and have gotten into the whole photography of it. In my preferance I dont like noise at all. Since skateboarding is seen as a "sport" that's looked down upon by most people I like to prove otherwise and instead of having dirty lenses and noisy pictures pictures I like to show skateboarding in an artistic fashion (even though some of my pictures on my profile would disagree).

Grainy photos, toy cameras, and bad lenses cannot create artistic works? I beg to differ. However, that is a matter left to the one creating the moment. If you want clean images, great, if you want grainy, gritty images, that's good too. It just happens to be a personal matter that I prefer grainy b&w, especially in extreme sports, and other areas that may appeal to "punk culture".