Equipment Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Camera Software: Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
Image-Specific Properties:
Image Orientation: Top, Left-Hand
Vertical Resolution: 72 dpi
Image Created: 2010:03:23 17:21:08
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
F-Number: f/10.0
Exposure Program: Manual
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Lens Aperture: f/9.9
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Metering Mode: Pattern
Flash: No Flash, Compulsory
Focal Length: 55.00 mm
Color Space Information: sRGB
Image Width: 4752
Image Height: 3168
Rendering: Normal
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Other Properties:
Resolution Unit: i
Chrominance Comp Positioning: Co-Sited
Exif IFD Pointer: 236
Compression Scheme: JPEG Compression (Thumbnail)
Horizontal Resolution: 72 dpi
Vertical Resolution: 72 dpi
Resolution Unit: i
Offset to JPEG SOI: 1118
Bytes of JPEG Data: 3898
Exif Version: 2.21
Image Generated: 2010:03:21 01:13:34
Image Digitized: 2010:03:21 01:13:34
Meaning of Each Comp: Unknown
Shutter Speed: 1/664 sec
DateTime Second Fraction: 64
DateTimeOriginal Second Fraction: 64
DateTimeDigitized Second Fraction: 64
Focal Plane Horiz Resolution: 5315 dpi
Focal Plane Vert Resolution: 5342 dpi
Focal Plane Res Unit: i
GPS Info Version: 2.2.0.0
Its good that you are using manual. but it looks to me that you have exposed for the background not the skier.
your angles are typical for skiing photography, but thats all you can get with your lens. so try to be very creative with the setting/venue and the sun. use everything you can in your picture, not just the skier. If the clouds are cool, use them, if you can frame the skier with the trees or the bamboo sticks. whatever use the area around you. dont have your face on the back of the camera to much. the less time you spend looking at your camera the more time you have looking around and finding cool angles.. oh and watch the background, you dont want a black coat on dark trees put them on the sky. use everything you can. keep it up!
Oh and look for a strobe. (light) get a speedlight this will be your next step. (IMO)
