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Venice Beach Skaters

Posted on | May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Teen Skater Jumps Off Ledge, Venice Beach, CaliforniaPhoto: Teen Skater Jumps Off Ledge, Venice Beach, California

I stayed off to the side initially. I didn’t take photos for a while until I felt comfortable and so I could blend into the background. At first I just took wide angle snapshots from far back to warm up for close up action then gradually worked my way closer. A couple of the kids asked me questions, but once they were on their boards they did their thing. Then I noticed that all of them were starting to line up for jumping off this ledge so I went over there too. I crouched next to a metal trash can where I knew they would be avoiding a crash landing and took photos from as close as I could safely get.

I had my composition ready before the skaters jumped and waited to catch them as they flew by. What I was hoping to do was catch some mid-air tricks and maybe a few wipeouts but no one landed badly so I had to settle for the tricks. I would have liked to have gotten this guy’s entire arm in the frame but I think the rest of the image is interesting enough to make it a keeper.

17-35mm @ 17mm, f8, 1/320 sec., ISO 100, handheld

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2 Responses to “Venice Beach Skaters”

  1. Ron Niebrugge
    May 29th, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

    That is great Ricard! I like how you see the dudes shadow.

    Ron

  2. Richard Wong
    May 29th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

    Thanks Ron. I agree. I think the shadow is probably more interesting than the guy himself.

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