Well, the crop may be too tight and cut the spectators' heads (sorry, I can't help smiling!) but.....isn't the focus on the cyclist???? I have to admit, though, that the shot may look better when given more dynamism through a snse of motion. Whatever. This is a great action photo in beautiful colours. Oh.... and I like the shadow on the bottom. Well done, Ryan Regards
Love the shot, and I think the shadow is and interesting feature, but I find the crop on the top edge uncomfortably tight, unbalances the frame and cuts the heads of the audience. Part of me would also prefer this to be at a slower shutter and panned to give more of a sense of motion (anyone reading this who think bicycles are slow, go along to a race and you try to capture them at this quality, they really shift!). I'd also have taken it down a stop, I think the foreground would have coped and it would have given more contrats to the background.
Ryan, I'm very aware its easy to criticise and I'd love to end my comments with an "and my attachment shows how it should have been done" line, but I have to be forced at gunpoint to do action stuff and it normally sucks. I've got a mountain biking assigment in the diary, when I've made a hash of it I'll post some examples so you can pick them to bits!!!
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