skate session, again (8 pics)

so i bring my camera again, to try to make some good photos, well im quite satisfied with the color, and the sky was rly nice also, thats why i post the pics. mosty just cropped, and autolevels,autocolor.
comments and criticism are welcomed :)


1. used a little burn tool on the sky here
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/7050/zimasg1.jpg
2.dani doin' backside feeble grind, as i remember he fucked up this one :D crop, auto:lvl,color
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6618/p1050078ck8.jpg
3. backside lipside, he didnt succeded it :P didnt made too much edit on this, same as on the 2. one.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8217/p1050085fx7.jpg
4. bs crooked, yea he know this trick, same edit as on 3.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5076/p1050073lt8.jpg
5. a little kickflip, was sucky to make a photo, cuz its in shadow, and didnt knew how could i make it better. tried from this position, edited shadow/highlight and lotsa stuffs.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7522/p1050137yz8.jpg
6. clear 360flip, with his robot moving :D not much post work
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3973/360flip2cb7.jpg
7. vaczko doin a nosebluntslide, but he just cant land it :/
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6462/p1050150pi7.jpg



and for the last part, here i am while skating, just to prove im not a poser :DD thx for the pics Dani and Balázs
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8840/memixkt5.jpg

The first and last two are my fav's pictures capture the 'action', the others are a little static.
autolevels,autocolor not the best wayy to adjust your images.

I like them. :) But they could need some more editing. Try duplicating the image and play around with Image > Adjustment > Shadows/Highlights to get rid of the dark shadows.

I like number 1 a lot, some are real good but otehrs are a bit meh...IMO. They aren't bad but could use some work.

ty for the comments. well i tried this style too, but then gonna reedit the better ones.. yea i used the shadow/highlight stuff on some of them, the sun was pretty strong that day thats why the strong shadows.

choosed this and made everything what i can do to make it better :D
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9334/zimaaex8.jpg

very nice, my only dislike is the tree hues and the 2nd person on the stairway... very nice capture and image quality, the wall really seems to pop in this image as well.

yea that leg on the stair disturbs me too, but i cant rly do anyithing with it, if i cut it down, then the skater would be too close to the right. ty for the comment :)

stanx, I would like to try and edit one of your photos. I'll write a small tutorial on how I did later. Is it ok?

sure thing. i would be happy :)

if you need a bigger or absolutely unedited pic just say wich and i upload it to somewhere :)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7149/skatergt9.jpg

This is how I would edit it. But I would have used an image with good image quality of course, haha.
Step by step:

1. Duplicate layer, go Image > Adjustments > Shadow/highlights. Raised the shadows and lowered the highlights (just a tiny bit for the highlights). Now we have more tones in the image. But it's almost a little too much, so I masked some parts of the trees to maintain depth.
2. Curves, boosted the contrast.
3. Hue/Saturation, lowered the saturation to -33.
4. New layer set to overlay and created some black to transparent gradients from the left upper corner and bottom. Masked some parts of it where it was too dark or disturbing.
5. New layer set to overlay, added some highlights to the pants, just like in my photo retouchning tutorial.
6. Did the same thing again, but with his t-shirt.
7. Added a dark green photo filter at 80% to get some nice "street" colors.

Took only 3 minutes to do, it's very simple, but the outcome is great! But this was a low res photo with low quality so I didn't care so much about details.

yea nice one. gonna try it today :) thanks for it!

love no.1 and 6

=D

i also retouched one, not with your style rabies, but i kinda like it:
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2746/cruxxdv8.jpg
opinions? if even anyone still check this thread :DDD
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5076/p1050073lt8.jpg