It’s difficult to have hardcore skaters/bmxers flying around the park at the same time as children playing, one of the lads suggested I follow them round to Parkfield, first time I’d been there, and what an awesome facility it is, when I was a kid we could only dream of smooth concrete like that as seen in skate vids from the US. As soon as I got there the local lads spotted the camera and rose to the occasion, apparently the best approach is to take a good shot and then show the skaters/riders as an ‘incentive shot’, encouraging them to go bigger, higher, and try their sickest tricks regardless of the risks! Yay, my new camera has arrived! It’s the Nikon D3200 and though it’s not greatly different to my old D50 I still need to get used to it asap, gorgeous weather, so where should I go? The skatepark. Another time I want some old skool hand plants and powerslides!īMX at Victoria Park skatepark, and Parkfield () The park itself is a great subject for photography with its curves and circular features, it presents many opportunities for leading lines and framing, as well as shooting towards the Sun for the silhouette effect, and quite attractive lens flares. The problem when shooting into the sun is lighting the dark side of your subject and I’d like to use the flash except it won’t fire when shooting quicker 250th of a second this is a real pain but I have some idea’s about how to achieve the same effect in post processing. These pictures were taken in two different session up at Parkfield, and as much as I love the airtime the BMXers get it’s good to get some skateboarding. The conclusion really was that the wide-angle effect adds much more drama and action to the shots as well as giving me the freedom to hold the camera at arm’s length low to the ground and still get the skater and a wide background all in shot, it’s an almost essential accessory. This time I wanted to try my cheap wide-angle lens adapter for that classic fish-eye effect, it is a half-measure since I can’t afford a proper wide-angle lens right now but given the large resolution of my new camera and no shortage of light, I thought I might get away with it. The second image was an experiment in single-shot HDR, the original wasn’t a great quality image so I’ve used some artistic licence to make more of it particularly the texture of the concrete and the complexity of the clouds stands out in this composition done with Photoshop’s HDR tools.Īfter reviewing the shots from a few days ago, and watching a lot of tutorials on skate photography, I went down for another go. I’ve re-edited a few of the pics from the Parkfield session below, I’m finding better uses for the RAW tools as well as ‘shake reduction’ and other features within Photoshop. The first is the only non 2:3 aspect ratio image I’ve done lately experimenting with alternative cropping, I think this shot makes more of the subject (skater). I’ve been reading up on how to get better action shots some of my attempts so far are very clear but don’t have any movement or sense of speed as such, I’ve got a lot to learn. So for now this page is mainly focusing on the local skateparks. I don’t have much experience of photography at sporting events yet, but I’ve been a skater/surfer and power-kite flyer all my life and I still love extreme sports.
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