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    First try at slalom

    This image was taken on one of our "Covid runs" as we are currently in lockdown here in Melbourne. Victoria as a whole is not in lockdown but we are and I am not happy, so there!

    I have been trying to capture these guys for a while. This one was the best of a bad lot and I took about 400 images. My position was good and I did not shoot people in the back of the head.

    The way I see it: burst at the right moment and crop in Lightroom later.

    First try at slalomFirst try by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

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    Re: First try at slalom

    It would be good exercise

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    Re: First try at slalom

    Good capture!

    It makes me nostalgic. I did whitewater for years. Finally had to give it up because of a combination of a move to a new location, a back injury, and age. Last year I gritted my teeth and put my whitewater boat and paddle on Craigslist for the price of $0. It was gone in a day. All I have left is an iPhone snapshot.

    It is good exercise, but a great deal of whitewater is skill rather than brute strength. For example, the most common way of rolling the boat back up--called "the Eskimo roll" here--doesn't take a great deal of strength, but it requires a set of quite precisely choreographed motions.

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    Re: First try at slalom

    Well done. I think this is a great action shot. It is sharp and plenty of action. Maybe the bow of the boat could be toned down a little. It seems to be blown out, with little detail in that area.
    Where was this taken? It is clearly not the River Yarra!

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    Re: First try at slalom

    Maybe the bow of the boat could be toned down a little. It seems to be blown out, with little detail in that area.
    It does look to be blown out. Photoshop gives luminance values of 99 and 100--RGB values of 254 and 255. I thought that might mean that a little detail was left (not all at 100 and 255), but when I selected the area and burned it, I just got gray.

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    Re: First try at slalom

    Great action shot. A bit picky to worry about the bow being a tad burned out, it's not the main subject - I dont image you had time to check the histogram before pressing the shutter.

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