The model is my nephew Daniel, aka "Babas" in the skating world. He is a real skateboarding champ and you can know more about him here.
Camera set in manual mode for desired exposure of sky and focus of distant silhouettes while keeping a fast enough shutter speed (The Nikon D700 does great at ISO 2500 and the f/5 DOF of the 16mm fisheye FX lens is perfect). Flash sync speed set to “fp” mode to be able to shoot/sync at 1/640s to prevent dark/faded edges. Fill flash: on board SB-800 at full power in manual mode. Camera positioned (handheld) below subject level but high enough to get the horizon and silhouettes in good position.
Usual stuff for processing: crop, levels, curves, hue/sat, resize, border, usm.
Could not clone out dust speck on upper right in basic editing.
After challenge: THANKS for your kind comments, votes and the ribbon!!!. Special thanks to my nephew Daniel for modeling. Ribbon dedicated to Jorge De Sousa for being a lot more than a super talented pg: a generous friend who is always open to teach and share. We all have much to learn from him.
To LevT: yes, you can clone out sensor dust in basic, but that is only when dust is ON THE SENSOR, which usually looks as a fuzzy dark spot (it blocks light). In this case the dust speck must be somewhere else since it does not look dark but whitish with sharp circular border (it is probably floating somewhere reflecting or difracting light towards the sensor), so I think it could not be cloned out without being dqd.
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Hey Daniel! You're a lucky guy. You know how to fly and you have a great photographer capturing stunning images for you. You'll be proud for the rest of your life with this amazing and fantastic photograph. By the way, congrats for Alfredo too. He did a great and faultless work!
Absolutely fabulous image. Especially love the grey tones and the people standing in the background (and, of course, your handsome nephew ;-) Big congrats, Alfredo.
very very brilliant image .. perfect fill-flash and amazing action shot ..
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BLUE RIBBON and a 2nd place on your profile page .. :)
Great capture for the challenge. Good use of fill light to highlight the subject. The white might be a tiny bit overexposed though when being fussy. Sky looks great. The little red is good. The border works. Great submission here.
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