Submit Your Best "Action" Photo

Nice shot. Interesting to shoot skating with a lens longer than the usual fisheye.

If I have a criticism, it's to do with context and storytelling.

In general a good skate photo is a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. It gives you a sense of where a skater has come from, what happening in the moment, and where it's all heading. This last element is where a lot of the drama and tension comes in.

In this picture you mainly get a sense of a nicely-composed moment in the middle of a trick. But unless you're a skater you won't know where he's come from or where he's heading. Obviously he's falling - but where to and how far? As far as the picture shows, the ground could be just below the bottom of the frame, or it could be much further. Now, a skater would say "That's looks like it's happening at the top of a vert ramp. He's probably about 12 feet above the ground, and he's coming off in the middle of a backside air, most likely, or, at a push, a backside boneless gone wrong. He'll probably land halfway down the ramp on his kneepads and slide to the bottom.' But you'd have to know the sport to realise that.