Deconstruct This Image #001 - Skateboard Photo

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Last week I posted an image for you guys to deconstruct without knowing anything about it. I asked you guys to tell me as much detail about how it was taken down to the shutter speed and even the focal length. Though this is not easy to figure out it is a great excursive to get your mind thinking about what goes into making an image.

There were a lot of guesses that this photo was taken with some off camera flash. It turns out that I did not use flash at all even though it really looks like I did. This shot was taken somewhere after 1pm on an overcast day with the sun peaking its head every so often. I was using the Nikon 70-200 VR II and ended up shooting this photo at 70mm because the skater got much closer to me than I first expected. Normally I would like to have shot at 200mm to compress the background as much as possible.

You also get to see a "First Person Shooter Project" view of the exact moment I took this picture. Be sure to check out the video above to see the video of this photo in action.

Nikon D3s Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR II
1/1000th at F4 ISO 1000 70mm No Flash
Shot RAW Not Cropped

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Skateboard photography
• Nikon
• canon
• photo editing
• adobe lightroom
• shutter speed
• ISO
• DSLR
• camera
• photograph

[MikeGnar513]

you should of used me as the skater... CHE!

[JaredPolin]

@MikeGnar513 lets do it. 

[scuzznightrunner]

hey jared, can you explain a bit more about the iso being so high to do with the shutter speed?

if you could awnser me that would be great!

thanks scott

[JaredPolin]

@scuzznightrunner I kept it high to give me a very fast shutter speed which aloud me to freeze the motion in its tracks. 

[KieranWPhotography]

Great Light, Great colour, Great Contrast...

but you can't use the photo if the trick wasn't landed! Skateboarding rule...

[b1tTutorials]

@TheUndergroundRave use manual focus, its fast and continous. :)

[zombieX111222333]

@ISuNsHiNeX adobe lightroom 3

[Oxyfresch]

fking amazing freeze -.- nice lightning, good detail, Pro.

[blakestimelapse]

lololol canon commercial while he uses nikon !

[Garasandman]

fantastic i like ur vids a lot as i'm still biggener

[ISuNsHiNeX]

What photo editing software do you use?

[esexx]

I like the deconstruction vid! I do it all the time anyways and now I can see if I am close or not on how the photo was taken.

[Robellislol]

@scuzznightrunner high ISO = sensor more sensitive to light = faster shutter speed ;)

[peet88ember]

where do you live? i need lessons.

[YungB0211]

@scuzznightrunner faster shutter speed makes the picture darker because more light cant get in. He used f4 aperture and didn't want to go to f 2.8 where he would have more light. Then the ISO was high because it is the sensitivity to light. The higher iso the more sensitive the sensor will be to light. So with a fast shutter speed, you cant use low iso because not enough light would come in.