Practice When You Can

I would like to say that I was so good at timing my shot that I captured this exact moment. The truth is that I was actually practicing following action with video. This is a still from the video. The idea is that you cannot simply expect to capture exactly what you want if you haven't worked through the use of your camera in the situations you are shooting. This may have been the third or fourth try to follow the skating up and down the street and get ready for this trick, which was always at this exact spot on the pavement. I knew the angle I needed to center the action and shoot from well below eye level to enhance the effect of the jump.