I think it is sick!! The sun off the board?? That is pretty crazy.. Straight out of the camera with the 7D..

Hawaii Surfer wrote:
I think it is sick!!


I guess you answered your own question.

Marty

snaptie2002 wrote:
Hawaii Surfer wrote:
I think it is sick!!


I guess you answered your own question.

Marty


+1

I don't think you need anyone here to confirm that this is a great shot.

Thanks,,, But I know i like it.. do you guys??

The composition is a little bland, but I'm not complaining... You don't see me out there in the water shooting this.

I think you should experiment with a few differnt crops to see if you can improve the composition. Also, post it a bit smaller... It's hard to appreciate the image when I have to scroll up and down to see it all. Plus, I'm viewing this on a 24" monitor, so the image is definitely excessively large.

Nice capture, but I think it could be improved.

Tim

definitely could be improved in PP, but pretty sweet image to start with!

Agree with all....

I'd look at what crop... just moving the screen sixe to faux crop it I think I'd like it more without the sun fully in there.
Sun just comming into frame at top left of the crop and around about 4x6

I agree with Anthony I think if you crop just slightly above the middle towards the bottom right. .The whole sun is extremely distracting but I think this shot could be absolutely amazing with the right crop.

Happy accident or intentional, it's a cracker!

It happened by total accident.. I am open to all suggestions.. If you want to crop it the way you see fit, then go for it. I would appreciate it...

That does look better. Maybe just a shot of it in the air. I played around with some crops of it and to me it seems that it is best in a landscape orientation cropped to include the flare off the board and just a tiny corner of the sun in it.

As photo goes it's pretty good, the sunlight reflecting off the board and catching the water is pretty cool.
Looking at it critically as 'kiteboarding' photo, I think it is lacking in composition, you can't tell if the kiter is hooked-in or unhooked (which is a big deal in kiteing) and the kite is flying upwards not forward (again a big deal in kiteing). Those are very technical aspects of kiteing that make a big different to the riding experence and hence to the images that portray the sport, sorry I can't explain it better, it's a kiter thing.
If you get a chance to flick through a kiteboarding magazine you'll see that majority of the ads and photo galleries will have a clearly unhooked rider with kite flying forward.
Still a great photo. Hope you didn't get your gear wet.