Shot with a friends D70s. Another friends 10.5 fisheye. 2 of my sunpak 555's and a friends q flash.
Post processing was slight rotation, duplicate layer, contrast adjustment, reduce opacity, change blend mode to hard light. flatten. heal out dust. curves. duplicate layer, burn a little bit of the sky, change opacity to liek 4 percent, and hard light. flatten one more time, rsize to 720 long side. sharpen. save for web at like 66. submit
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this is a sick shot man. i love skate shots haha. i don't have any for dpchallenge.. but i am trying to learn more about it. i just got a flash so i am getting to learn how to use my flash more. but for this shot did you have lights set up or did you use a slave. if you just had lights set up .. what kind of light/s did you use? and generator haha
i hope you don't mind sharing some of the info, it would be greatly appreciated.
These tone-mapped HDR type photos are really growing on me! This is awesome! And I love how the vibrant fresh light colors contrast against the turbulent sky! Beautiful work!
A stand out image for the challenge and wonderfully executed. I'd bet that many will suggest that the sky is not the focus of the image but without the sky as a very powerful partner with all the elements, the image would be less than the beauty it is. Great job!
sky is not the subject here. It makes good contrast for your subject and the lighting. Looks like there is a bit of fisheye distortion. It adds to the surreal feeling of the shot. Lighting is good but not natural looking a bit to harsh for me. subject is in good focus and composition is good for a skateboarding action shot.
One of the more creative compositions in this challenge. I would score this higher if the lighting on the skateboarder was more consistant with the overall lighting (less intense and coming from the upper left) My monitor (on a Mac browser) is also showing some loss of detail in the block wall. Keep that creativity coming - 7
Nice skate photo. I don't think it's fits very well into the challenge, because the sky, isn't a big part of the photo, but I like the photo itself so you get a nice score from me.
This is a great shot but it's not focusing on the sky, so technically it doesn't fit the challenge. I'm still scoring high tho cause I think it's a wonderful shot. Techs are perfect. Should be a boarding ad.
This is really cool. The red paint adds a sorta scary feel to it. The lighting is interesting too. If this had major editting, I can't see it - really nice.
I will be interested to see how this scores because some people might not interpret it the right way. I really like it mate and I'm rating this high, the sky is just amazing.
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