Sandboarding

nedlA kraM

This is one of my best shots i've taken when sandboarding with mates. The colours are the way they are because I accidentally put my appature up instead of my shutter speed :scratch but I think the colours work with the action. Some detail has been lost when posting but you get the idea C&C welcome



~Mark

gus

Thats a good action photo however i dont think the aperture is the cause of your over saturated colour. What did you do to the colour in processing ?

Also just from my point of view i always like to try & get the sports persons face in a photo as expression is 9/10ths the story for me. So maybe try from the other side next time.

nedlA kraM

gus wrote:

Thats a good action photo however i dont think the aperture is the cause of your over saturated colour. What did you do to the colour in processing ?

Also just from my point of view i always like to try & get the sports persons face in a photo as expression is 9/10ths the story for me. So maybe try from the other side next time.

yea sorry i forgot to explain that the aperture caused the photo to be really dark and I am currently using the most basic of editing tools and this was the best I could do with what i had

As for the position of the shot, I have over 100 other sandboarding shots all from different angles and i guess I just wanted to capture the drama of the sand in this one.

Thanks for the feed back ~Mark

gus

Cool. How about securely putting your camera into a plastic sandwich bag & laying down on the sand & letting the board rider go over the top of you & maybe get them between you & the sun to show a strong silhouette with sand spray & maybe converting it to B&W ?

Just a thought anyway...i torture my gear so remember it may only take a grain of sand to end your camera but i suspect you are well aware of that.

nedlA kraM

We've been thinking about doing that for a while now but the problem is that sand isn't as consistent as snow so one jump may safely clear me while the next might land on my head!

Here's a quick B&W conversion.

Frog Lady

I likr the b/w, nice job in the recovery

some thing to think about next time is the exposure - the sand is over blown in both, loosing detail that would have (imho) enhanced the shot.

C.

nedlA kraM

Frog Lady wrote:

I likr the b/w, nice job in the recovery

some thing to think about next time is the exposure - the sand is over blown in both, loosing detail that would have (imho) enhanced the shot.

C.

Thanks a lot. Thinking about exposure is all I do when shooting sand!!! I stopped down for this shot and the sand came out fine but the subject was massively underexposed so I had to brighten in p/p which undid the good sand expusure! It's a never ending battle...

Thanks again for your advice ~Mark

DonRicklin

If you can work in Photoshop you can do layers where you keep the good sand and you enhance the rest.

I understand you are working with a simpler PP app.

Nice shooting!

Don

nipprdog

nedlA kraM wrote:

The colours are the way they are because I accidentally put my appature up instead of my shutter speed

One of the reasons the colors are that way because your camera is set on 'high saturation' .

Did you manually set it that way, or are you using the 'Vivid' setting?

nedlA kraM

nipprdog wrote:

One of the reasons the colors are that way because your camera is set on 'high saturation' .

Did you manually set it that way, or are you using the 'Vivid' setting?

The camera was on vivid though most of the saturation came through p/p because of the darkness of the photo caused by the high f-stop and my lack of decent editing tools/skill

I'll keep an eye on the setting though, now that I look at some of my other photo's i can see they are a tad oversaturated.

Thanks ~Mark

nedlA kraM

DonRicklin wrote:

If you can work in Photoshop you can do layers where you keep the good sand and you enhance the rest.

I understand you are working with a simpler PP app.

Nice shooting!

Don

Yea i really must invest in photoshop.

Thanks for the feedback ~Mark