Critique my photos

Here's my flickr in case anyone wants to look at my other photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/delinquentrider/

great pictures dude one critique i have to give is on the first and second to last one, try to draw out the skier from the background, its hard to tell, especially on the first, the outline of the skier from a quick glance

Lighting is not the problem, and some things cannot be fixed by 285hvs. Not to start an argument, although that's unlikely to happen on NS, too many people say get ligths and your pictures will look better, not juts on here either. Use the most powerful flash ever, the sun.

The first, well, you pointed and shot. Weird skier position, vertical with what appears to be a mildly wide focal length (could be wrong) doesn't really work. It's typical. Don't know the surroundings, but look around for something a little looser that shows the environment. Shoot during sunset, get it coming through the trees or something. Whenever that rail jam occurs again anyway... if ever. I could almost see awesome sunlight shining though those trees in the morning.

The second almost worked, if you were going for a slow shutter panning shot. I clicked for a larger and got a thirty foot long image, do some post processing and resize to a reasonable size like 650ish pixels wide, the height will follow suit. It will appear sharper and just in general better. Go for the same thing, use a slow shutter and follow the skier for the blur effect. That takes practice and multiple tries. Nice one hand pole steeze.

Three is pretty good, could have let in some more light, maybe .5 or 1 stops. Don't really know what to say other than that, maybe don't chop the top of the ledge. That or go for sunrise or sunset if the light shines on that ledge. Golden light=good.

All I have say here is if you have a longer lens, stand far back and a similar comp and size of everything but you could blur the background due to the focal length. If not, get better light and get him in the trees. Light on dark, right?

Common theme, look for natural light instead of blowing a ton of money on flashes, unless you want to. I think it's more rewarding to scout for light and get a good shot in it, plus golden light looks sick. That being said, it's not always sunny in wherever you live... I guess make the photo's mood match the light.

first one is sick! nice setup too

thanks guys!

I'm going to try this stuff out next time i can get to a mountain.  I actually wasn't using a flash, but i do have one and a tripod.  I definitely think that i could work on composition but i haven't had time to scope out the best spots to take photos, and most of these were just snapshots because skiiers are too impatient to wait for me to find a good spot. 

I understand the golden light thing because there isnt really that much that makes my photos stand out, and i think that taking photos at sunset would be super cool.  The only problem is that the sun sets on the wrong side of the mountain for me to take the best photos.  With the rail jam, i'm going back a ton this summer, so i'll bring my tripod along for once and try to take photos with better composition.  I think that the photos will be better because it will be summer with more light and i got a new lense after the rail jam season ended which will be alot better for the rail jam.

well composition, style, angles, and lighting.

dude your pix are amazing! i really like them, besides the unfocused parts in some of them and the light, which is not quite the best.. but good start!