Longboard action

I was team photographer last Tuesday at the Liquid Boards longboard meeting on Plymouth Hoe.
Here's the boss and event organiser Stewart Lees.
Not sure if I should go wider? (I have a fair amount each side)
I like the angle but I wonder if the leaning chimneys ruin the effect?

Great action shot.

I'm not sure if the chimneys ruin it at all. The eye is drawn to the guy on the board, in fact, I had to go back and look for the chimneys after reading your post.

Chimneys, what chimneys?

Really exciting picture

Very dynamic shot and the wider version looks better to me. The chimneys don't intrude but the strange halo round his backside does. Similarly there seems to be some effect round his hand. Out of interest is hand actually on the ground?

Mike

Very nice capture the point of focus is very sharp

Thanks guys.
I like the wide shot but was worried about the amount of tarmac etc.
His hand IS on the ground but it has a plastic slider which may account for the shadow and there is a motion blur going in the wrong direction, caused either by me panning too fast or him moving his hand.

It was a fish eye shot (if I had to have one lens, it would be this one ). so he was very, very close. resulting in some weird panning anomalies.

All manual, precisely the same discipline as nightclub shoots. The Metz was a gem - I helped it to cover the fisheye FOV and soften the light a little by firing it into a white reflector.

That is an awesome shot with great impact. Nice one.

Thanks Paul,
It's funny, I am still aching now, after lunging into their path and rolling over backwards to follow them through

Next week I'll take the easy route and follow them on my own board. Hopefully the effect will be similar to the Morris Minor portrait.

Mark this is an amazing shot, captured in a really really nice way. If you hadn't mentioned chimneys I wouldn't even know that those were there, they are very nicely blurred and the shadows just adds to the impact.

Was this a stationary shot and then the background blurred in photoshop using motion blur?

Matt

P.S if not then a fine photo it is!

 
er... thanks Matt
 
Thanks Amin, decided to go with the wide shot.

Excellent shot.

Thanks Peter,
After these positive comments I have spent a few more minutes tweaking it and decided to leave it at this:

lol was i right??