I wanted to share this photo with you as an example of getting lucky. I had just barely purchased my first DSLR and my boy asked if I would go to Brighton and take some photos of him doing some snowboarding tricks. I knew enough to get make sure I had the camera set up on a tripod and that I was out of the way from the snowboarders. After I got the tripod set up I also knew enough to place the camera in manual focus. I got everything set up and decided I better do a test run of the next boarder to come down the mountain. This was my test photo. I have no idea who the person is. I tried for the next couple of months to locate the person so that I could give him the photo all to no avail. My boy came down the mountain and hit a rut right before the jump and landed hard. When we came home we downloaded a free trial of photoshop and stitched the six different positions of the boarder into one photo. It took us forever. We have since learned how to make this a faster process. The big key to this was to guess the right exposure, have the camera in focus, on a tripod, and to be at the right place at the right time.

I like the complete rotation of the boarder.
I like the clear blue sky.
I like the height the boarder gets.
I would shoot this in Raw next time. Raw would allow more flexibility in the edit process.
I would shoot the entire sequence from take off to landing.

Thank you for visiting today. Let me know what you think.

~wr~