more street less field...

System

erich6

You did a decent job capturing the motion but you may want to increase your exposure time just a tad. I don't like the selective color in this shot...just don't see what it adds. Also, try it with the skater coming towards you so we can see his face!

Erich

Frogwell

I like that. And I'm going to disagree with Erich, 'cause I can dagnamit! I like the selective colour, it's subtle. It adds a little life without being distracting. I also like the fact you can't see the skaters face - if you could see his face then I think the photo would be too centred there. Where as now the photo is about the skater as a whole, what he's doing, where he is - you have the whole scene. That probably doesn't make sense does it?

One thing it might have been nice to see would be a landscape format with the skater either to the left skating into the scene, or I think maybe better at the right, have skated through the scene, giving him a sense of speed. Or something.

I'm going to shut up now :patch

System

Thanks for both replies.

The shot was off the cuff on the street. I had no control over any element. also had the 70-200 mm lens and this was as far as I could back out of the scene. I got 4 frames. 2 have him coming at me but they are not interesting visually at all. One is a toatal freaking blur and this one. it was on Jackson Blvd. Directly in front of the Chicago Board of Trade in the hear tof the financial district. I wish i ahd been on the other side of the street to get the CBOT as a backdrop...but alas it was not meant to be.