this photo is far from an "average snapshot".. it's really nicely framed, timing is spot on which is quite hard with tuck-no handers!! If it had a flash or two on the rider it would be a really great shot IMO.
I'm not a pro photographer if that's what you're trying to say... I'd have liked to use a flash but I didn't have any triggers at the time and I was filming so it was on video mode.
For a non proffesional photographer, i think that this is a really good effort and it got the photographer POD! So well done, Not my favourite type of riding, (Dirt jumping) now but still good picture, good skills, props to both...
Actually I had the same problem shooting my buddies at our local jumps. The light coming through the trees pulls so much away from the subject.. a busy background is a bitch to deal with. But this pic has an amazing trick happening so it's cool!
this photo does have the colors red(wheel) yellow(frame) blue(wheel) and green(helm), primary colors upside down in the forest+no hands = pod obviously. the photographer and the camera could have taken a smoother silkier crisper shot, but they didn't need to to get where they are today. cry about it. ps i know green is not a primary color, its what you get when you mix frame and front wheel.
I like that it's a sick action shot, but I also really like the look of it as well. In some ways it reminds me of a Bev Doolittle painting, the ones of horses where they're almost perfectly camouflaged in their surroundings.
And sometimes I just like to see things as they are, without a whole bunch of flashes changing the look of it.
I really like the discussion that is happening on this photo, I didn't put a comment on it and people are making their own. And there are some very well thought out comments being made about this.
I made this comment above, but here it is again: I like that it's a sick action shot, but I also really like the look of it as well. In some ways it reminds me of a Bev Doolittle painting, the ones of horses where they're almost perfectly camouflaged in their surroundings. And sometimes I just like to see things as they are, without a whole bunch of flashes changing the look of it. I really like the discussion that is happening on this photo, I didn't put a comment on it and people are making their own. And there are some very well thought out comments being made about this.