Carlos Tile Banks

[dmourati]

This is a pedestrian walkway at a train station underneath the tracks.

[Photo-John]

Nice first post! Is that in San Carlos? Can't believe there are no bricks or anything in the way to keep people from skating.

I don't know if you're interested in some criticism, but I think this would be better if it was tighter. I expect you wanted to keep the background banks in the photo. But it just feels like too much dead space to me. I want more skater and less empty background.

Thanks for joining us, Demetri. Although I don't shoot any skating, I was a little skate punk in the eighties and I still try to pick up the Thrasher photo issue. Skate photography is close to my heart

[dmourati]

Thanks John for the feedback. Totally agree about the dead space. This was a pretty tight location. I got a few different angles here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmourati/4252871761/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmourati/4253689578/

Normally, I don't like vertical fisheye shots but I saw the dead space on the first one above and wanted to try something to fill the shot more with the skater while still showing off the difficult spot. It's a train underpass in Mountain View.

I still like the first one best because he is so high up the ramp.

[SmartWombat]

I like the vert photo in the second link, I agree on showing where he is - and I think in the vert shot it doesn't look so dead.

[Photo-John]

I like the vertical shot, too. I agree that it might have worked better with a lens other than the fisheye. But it does work. And something that hasn't been mentioned yet - the Thrasher shirt. I didn't even notice it in the first photo. But in the two you linked to it really pops out. in those two photos it ends up being a really strong compositional element.