Street Riding

illuminati919

This is my friend Matt, not only does he ride BMX like me, but he's also a photographer.

Steve Cavigliano

Nice shot and I like the action. I'd crop it a bit tighter and if you get to do this often, you might want to get down low so that most of the background is sky. Or, use a wider aperture to blur out the BG. Either way will help to isolate your subject.

Steve

illuminati919

Thanks steve, I definitely could have gotten down a little bit lower, I kind of wanted to get the trees in the background and try to creat a rule of thirds, I already cropped alot of the photo to do it. The thing that sucked I couldnt use my flash because my batteries died, but I will probably re-shoot this eventually and take put your tip into use and use my flashes, thanks alot .

ian408

I like the angle. And I like Steve's idea for shooting a bit lower.

I was watching one of the "how to shoot football" videos over on
SportShooter. One of the points that Robert Hanishiro made was that
shooting down field as opposed to cross field, you've got more room to
isolate your subject. Whereas cross field left one with a lot of distraction
most of the time. Down field gives you 100yds to isolate the subject
(nice bokeh) while cross field gives you 10 to 20 at most.

What really stuck with me was the need to keep the background clean.
Of course there are times when you'd like to include the officials or fans
in the shot for perspective.

What does this have to do with BMX you might ask? Probably nothing
except how important it is to consider not just the primary subject but
everything else that will be in the frame too.

For this angle, maybe stepping back a ways and shooting with a zoom
would allow you to keep the trees in the shot for reference but blur
them just a bit so your subject stands out.

Do post some more shots. We don't get to see enough alternative
sports

Ian

wxwax

Yeah, the thing that occurs to me is to shoot it wide open and get a narrow depth of field, isolate him against a blurry background.