Urban sports, BMX, skating, parkour

[Tobers]

I found myself spending most of the day yesterday in the urban culture/sport/music festival down by the waterfront in Bristol.

It was pretty colourful stuff with skateboarding, parkour (running about jumping on things), bmx stunting etc. Here's a selection of my lot...

#1 pan zoom BMX stunting

#2 slow shutter without zooming to get the motion of the stunt the guy was doing

#3 Amazing stunt cyclist guy who rode his mountain bike up vertical walls and balanced on railings on his back wheel....

#4...like this:

#5 skater boy using remote flash. Crappy backgrounds were the order of the day.

#6 Parkour from below. Very fit and athletic guys doing this - quite superb.

#7 Breakdancing dude (should have got the guy's name)

#8 Another breakdancing dude

#9 Another BMX shot. I found the normal "frozen" looking shots a bit dull - the slow shutter ones seem much more effective. I was using 2nd curtain sync flash here.

Great experience and lots of new stuff to shoot and add to the portfolio.

 

[rh1944]

Great set with #4 being my favourite for colour, composition and detail. Well done.

 

[Benroy]

What a great set

You've done a fantastic job capturing the motion in the action shots. No 3 is an awesome portrait and I really like the composition of number 6.

 

[Craikeybaby]

#3 is stunning!

Of the action shots #4 is my favourite, but I'd have liked to see it panned down a bit to see more of what he is riding/jumping off...

 

[cherryrig]

I was thinking of going down the Big 3 Comp down at Bristol.

Only as I'm a skate photography, you should of had a wider shot to show what he is doing it down and to add some feel to the photo.

Also not a fan of the blur in all the photo

 

[Rockshifter]

Some very interesting shots.
N0s 3,4,6 & nine do it for me.
I'd crop the head out in 6 if it were mine.

 

[spencer]

A nice set!
I love 3 & 5. superb.

I was there myself, enjoyed it completely.

Regards Spence