The Little Guys

[trelaflip]

My city held a skateboard contest today to show support for Youth Week. It was mainly just younger kids showing what they got and I was pretty impressed.

I found it much, much harder though taking pictures of the younger riders. So unpredictable and because they haven't gotten to that skill level where they can control, I was never sure what was going to really happen.

Let me know what you think.

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[enc]

Well most of them looks good. My favorites would by 3rd and 5th pictures. I think i'd blur background for all of them (except 4th maybe).

[spazoid1965]

Have you tried cropping #1 And #5. On #1 I'd crop out the ramp and the fence. On #5 I would crop out the vehicle on left. On the bottom I'd crop just below the spectaters. It seems to add more hieght on the jump. Or go with even a tighter crop by eliminating everything except the skateboarder and the sky surrounding them. In the other 3 shots the backgrounds were just too distacting in my opinion.

[trelaflip]

the one thing with skateboard photos is, it does give the person look like there going higher then they really are when you crop the ramp but then they would be considered poser shots in the skate scene.

i could crop out some more of the background but then i think I would lose the feeling of people watching the skateboard competition.

[moracca]

I might give cloning out the person eating in the minivar in #5 a try... really doesn't fit in

[kunaldaswani]

i think all shots are great. 1 & 5 are my favorite. but i really like all the shots! great shots!

[jmadigan]

Great shots. I think the best ones are the ones like 1 and 5 where there's nothing distracting in the background behind the main subject.