This was at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands, near my house. There used to be a huge area of dirt jumps. Well, myself and my buddy Mike here went there because I was shooting a photo story about him and I laid myself down inbeteween the gap of the jump and told him to do a backflip. The funny part is how many times I missed this shot and asked to to please do another backflip. It took about 15 minutes of re-takes until I got this. Haha. I think he started to get dizzy after a while.
This is great. It's not the normal backflip angle. I like that I get to see the concentration on the rider's face. That and the sort of abstract, blank background are what make this photo for me. I do wish his face was sharp, but I understand how hard dort jump photo focus can be.
Did you use a flash on this or is it all natural light?
Photo-John
Thanks John! Yeah, I do wish that on his face as well, but man, that shot was by far the hardest thing I've ever gotten before. No flash was used. It was all natural light. Shot it towards the endo of the day so the sun was setting.
