Snowboarding Photography Contest 2012 - Closes: Oct 14
“RIDE the pipe”
Rider: Unknown
Date: 11/09/2012
Location: Perisher Superpipe
Photog: TJswish
“Going Massive!”
Rider: Unknown
Date: 15/09/2012
Location: Perisher FV Park
Photog: TJswish
Goodbye Jindabyne!
Rider: Reelika Vainola
Date:09/10/12
Location: Jindabyne
Photog: Joosep Martinson
cool shot!
Rider: James Orchard
Photographer: Lawrence Phillips
Location: Mt Buller
Date: 23 ?July ?2011
nope, sorry mizu.
that’s a nice grab, but there’s no context to the photo. Is he a foot off the ground or 10 meters?
Never seen anyone do a grab like that with a foot of Air so I am going to say 10 metres. Have the agree with Mizu on this photo.
what if it’s off a waterjump?
ooooh a 2013 sherlock!
Burton should be giving you a commission on every Sherlock sold! (Well, at least when they’re bought as a powder board
)
please let your contacts at B know where to reach me!
did I mention the Sherlock is amazing in powder?
How about this one then????? From Transworld’s site!!!!!
<img src =“http://snowboarding.transworld.net/files/2009/02/24/ben-1-full.jpg.jpg” width =“400”>
Or this?????
<img src =“http://snowboarding.transworld.net/files/2009/02/24/alex-2-full.jpg.400x600.jpg” width =“400”>
Rider: Lawrence Phillips
Photographer: James Orchard
Location: Mt Buller
Date: 08 ?July ?2011
ooooh a 2013 sherlock!
please let your contacts at B know where to reach me!
did I mention the Sherlock is amazing in powder?
How about this one then????? From Transworld’s site!!!!!
<img src =“http://snowboarding.transworld.net/files/2009/02/24/ben-1-full.jpg.jpg” width =“400”>
There is still some context. You know from the angle that he is quite far off the ground.
Still a meh to average shot but there is something there.
Thredbo parkie salting the run up.
Title: Salt Of The Earth
Photographer: Tommy Trinh
Location: Thredbo
Date: 11 September ?2012
How about this one then????? From Transworld’s site!!!!!
<img src =“http://snowboarding.transworld.net/files/2009/02/24/ben-1-full.jpg.jpg” width =“400”>
There is still some context. You know from the angle that he is quite far off the ground.
Still a meh to average shot but there is something there.
I gotta agree with Gamblor, Chucky and TJswish. Snowboard photography would be boring if everyone just zoomed in on the snowboarder and shot them in the air. A method off a 100 foot cliff drop would look exactly the same as a method off a 5 foot kicker. It’s already bad enough that something like a triple cork could look exactly the same as an indy grab in the wrong moment.
Those shots from the Transworld site are below average. I can pretty much guarantee you that these shots would not make the cut to appear in the magazine.
nope, sorry mizu.
that’s a nice grab, but there’s no context to the photo. Is he a foot off the ground or 10 meters?
Never seen anyone do a grab like that with a foot of Air so I am going to say 10 metres. Have the agree with Mizu on this photo.
what if it’s off a waterjump?
I don’t care what it is off really, I still think that first shot Mizu put up looks cool and you know he is high up in the air. I generally agree that the ‘guy in the sky’ thing doesn’t look very good and are boring shots but there is always the exception to the rule. The shot he put up first makes me imagine all sorts of things going on…the rider floating a massive backside 180 or whatever, and if it does that then it achieves its purpose i’d say. I’ve barely glanced at a million photos that were probably considered to have ticked all the right boxes by real photographers but they didn’t do anything for me.
As for the last few photos you put up Mizu….mmmm they don’t look particularly special to me (although if they were of me I would no doubt be stoked).
Yeah, the last two examples are just the first thing that I grabbed, and while admittedly they aren’t brilliant shots, on the same hand they are probably no worse than 99% of the shots that are in this thread!!!!!
Do we write off every pic that wont make the pages of Transworld?????
Not tryin to be rude, end user, or TJ, but your last offerings on this page will be in that very same category also!!!!! To me anyway!!!!! Maybe others will see something different, maybe they wont?????
Yeah, the last two examples are just the first thing that I grabbed, and while admittedly they aren’t brilliant shots, on the same hand they are probably no worse than 99% of the shots that are in this thread!!!!!
Do we write off every pic that wont make the pages of Transworld?????
Not tryin to be rude, end user, or TJ, but your last offerings on this page will be in that very same category also!!!!! To me anyway!!!!! Maybe others will see something different, maybe they wont?????
All good, the main issue with trying to get shots that aren’t of pro-snowboarders in the back-country is the area you have to shoot from.
I.E. this photo (below) was taken from Front Valley park. The only option to get more area in it would have been to take the photo from a lot further away on a T angle to the jump (me at the bottom of the T and the rider jumping across the top). The main problem with that angle is that the rider would be so small that you couldn’t tell what he would be doing.
So while I don’t have the take-off and landing, I do have the take off and show the distance between him and the ground which makes him look like he is flying a decent length.
If all I gave you was this:
Then it’s a pretty bad image.
Now I don’t think I’m even in the running to win anything in this comp. I took some photos to see how they come out. Since getting 500+ photos and having 6 that I felt were decent enough to put into the comp, I know how hard it must be for some of the better entries on here and professional photographers etc.