Some sandboarding shots

nedlA kraM

These are just a few shots from a day of sandboarding with mates. It was one of my first times out shooting with my first dslr (nikon d40) so the hands are cut off on a couple as I was still trying to figure out my distances...C and C always welcome

arms cut off but I love the pose


swimming through the air


nice path of sand left behind


muckin around


slippery foot strap


got all the arm but not as good of a contrast without the pink shorts


perfect form


huge air


Thanks for looking....Mark

nedlA kraM

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JSJR4

cool shots. never seen this before

Paulcao

That looks like a lot of fun! Great shots, but maybe get somre different angles next time?

nedlA kraM

Cheers, yea it is great fun, the sand rides a lot like snow does except the falls hurt quite a bit more

The spot where we go has very limited areas to shoot from so good angles are hard to come by without getting a bucket load of sand in the camera!!! Next time I'm gonna dig myself a little shooters pit so I should get some good shots from it.

Thanks for the comments ~Mark

Paulcao

If you're going to make a shooting area for yourself and plan on shooting the same shots of different guys you might want to try focusing on the spot you expect them to be at. Instead of autofocusing on every shot. Although ps makes it less noticeable, some of the shots caught the bush in the background in focus. Were you using AI Servo...erm... I mean continuous?

nedlA kraM

Paulcao wrote:

If you're going to make a shooting area for yourself and plan on shooting the same shots of different guys you might want to try focusing on the spot you expect them to be at. Instead of autofocusing on every shot. Although ps makes it less noticeable, some of the shots caught the bush in the background in focus. Were you using AI Servo...erm... I mean continuous?

Yea I was using continuous, I had noticed what you are saying and my excuse is that it was my first time shooting with my first dslr I was thinking next time that taking it down a couple of f/stops would help as well, yea?

Hopefully ill have some new shots soon but we've had bad weather and the sands been wet as buggery!!! and wet sand = no slide.

Cheers for your help~Mark

Chrissiebeez_NL

im really digging that blown highlights idea! brings a bit of 80ies feeling into it

nice shots, especially for fist time

Paulcao

nedlA kraM wrote:

Yea I was using continuous, I had noticed what you are saying and my excuse is that it was my first time shooting with my first dslr I was thinking next time that taking it down a couple of f/stops would help as well, yea?

Hopefully ill have some new shots soon but we've had bad weather and the sands been wet as buggery!!! and wet sand = no slide.

Cheers for your help~Mark

Personally I stay away from the aiservo or continuous when using consumer level cameras. I don't know much about Nikon, but I think the D40 is the standard consumer one...Like with mine if I have my 30D-- I'd be less inclined to use AIservo(continueous) than if I had the 1Ds Mark II. Also if you want to stop it down some you have more margin of error. You get less light, but I doubt that'd be a problem. Anyways, still looks like great fun. I'd want to try it. I've been on every other sort of board (snow, wake, skate). I don't know if there's a place around here to do it. I'm in California and I don't remember seeing any beaches with steep enough sand declines.

prity goldfish

oh that looks like fun!! i'm a big fan of snowboarding.

leaforte

Cool shots. We used to ride the dunes in Oregon, before it was cool, but we just held on till the bottom...no big air here. I like those guys in Cali that ride the scree fields. I bet one day you'll be able to ride a lift for a good sand run...maybe.