Amami Superman Photography

Last week while my wife's younger brother was visiting, we went out to a friend's skateboarding bowl. I used to fool around skateboarding many years ago but since then I haven't even touched a board. They had a small half-pipe in the back that I thought I would try my luck on. I've put on quite the weight over the years so I really didn't know how much trouble I was going to get myself into. It took a few drop-ins and wipes to finally get a kind of rhythm back. After messing around on that for a bit I thought I would try my luck on the much larger bowl they had. Needless to say, it only took one drop in and one wipe to call it a night. So then I got my camera out and started to take some photos of everyone else.

At first I tried to use my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens but it didn't have a wide enough angle. I switched to my Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 for the wider angle but it wasn't fast enough so I decided to use my built in flash. I've only used my built in flash a hand full of times and only a few shots when I did. This was the first time I used my flash to take around 100 shots.

Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/8.0, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Daigo Dropping In



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/8.0, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Shuusaku Catches Air Over the Channel



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/8.0, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Naoki Dropping In



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/10, ISO 800 -- EXIF
On the Wall



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/10, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Daigo Looking Very Concerned About the Bottom



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/10, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Yuki Mid Grind
(Yuki is Shuusaku's older brother)



Nikon D60, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm, 1/200 sec, f/10, ISO 800 -- EXIF
Kenji On the Wall
(Kenji is my wife's younger brother)

Those are just a few of the shots I took that night. There were a few other people there but I don't know their names. I'm a bit bias that way with my my posts. I usually try to post good shots, but I also try to post shots of my friends even if the shots are not the best.

I had to discard a bunch of the shots where the person I was shooting was far away on the other side of the bowl. I was getting some weird spots on my photos. I don't know if it was dust on my lens or reflections from my flash. It didn't make the photos look that nice so I decided not to use them.