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Shot this almost 2 months ago when the voleurz guys were in town.

As you can tell by the thread title it was not a trick that works well as a single image to tell the whole story. This was my favourite frame..

(+) he's isolated from the background
(+) i believe you can tell what's going on (ie where he came from and where he's going)
(+) DoF
(+) sun rim


(-) size of feature is small for snowboarding, i'll toss up sequence which may make it look more legit?
(-) his positioning may look awkward to some
(-) no 2011 product (does this reduce the chance of it running anywhere? in my mind - yes)
(-) could use fill flash, I have no flash experience yet so that is something I need to work on

as promised.. sequence version

does the image above work better than sequence or vice versa?



Cheers,

Dan

Single frame for me

Single frame for me as well

sequences which haven't been stiched don't really work for me. So single frame.

But that single frame has some issues for me;
twigs? whats up with that? they sorta frame him, but pretty distracting, they feel out of context
props on the lighting, really rad
i'd like to see a bit more at the bottom, its just tough to tell what was happening unless you see the description or the sequence. If we could see the kicker it would help a lot.
DOF; would be nice if it were even more narrow, the bkg is still distracting me quite a bit.

Richard, Matt and Reuben thanks for the critiques - i agree the foreground twigs are a bit of a pain, I had broken most of them off when I got to this angle, but obviously not enough, I must have shifted slightly and they got in there.

Thanks on the lighting, but I wasn't really thinking about that when I was shooting, I guess that was just a lucky accident. I was mainly looking for an angle that would give the feature justice as many other angles were making it look really small.

I would have liked to see more of the kicker as well, but I don't have a shorter lens that would have worked in that situation.. 65mm would have been key here instead of the 70.

Sequence for me, the feature looks kinda small for a still.
Snowboard mags are looking for more tech tricks sequences these days too,
Great colors and exposure!
the trick could be executed better tho..