Action Sports Cartel

First time out shooting this year, pretty happy with how it came out.

- motion blur on hand
- wish i had more fill on his shirt

+ timing
+ framing, wish i would have gettin lower but my face was pretty much on the ground

WTF? U posted this almost a full day ago and Rueben hasnt talked massive amounts of shit about it yet? Weird. The motion blur hurts it. You need some more flash power brotha. Im guessing u had one speed light to the left and thats it? Prob shot it at 5.6? You isolated him on the blue sky pretty nicely. Needs an accent and more fill but not bad dude. Keep shooting and get some more flashes out there.

haha sickness keeps me tamed some days.
hope thats not how i'm being perceived, do you guys find my crits assholeish or helpful?

all i'll say for the shot is; simplify

I kinda want to combine both the previous crits as more flash power could have created simplification by allowing you to drop more of the chaos into shadow by overpowering ambient light. Especially distracting is everything to the right side of the frame like the trixie Jetta. I want the front of that rail to be more "in your face" as if the image was cropped in camera just to the left of the Jetta. Heck, maybe shoot it vertically and crop out the light pole that way as well.

This shot is way too busy, the lens is distorting the lines horribly, and I'd have waited till he was at the very top too before shooting it. If he didn't get that far up, I wouldn't have shot it, especially because I crooked it to the top myself when I live in Toronto, and I SUCK at skating.

Oh, and there's no such thing as a frontside overcrooks, it's just a tweaked nosegrind.