Jared Souney
Jared Souney is a successful photographer, he started off riding a bike in 1983 and continues to ride them until this day. Roughly around 1997 Souney began to take photography more seriously and has now been a professional photographer for years. Souney now owns his own creative studio which started off as skateboarding and bmxing but has now turned into photography, film, advertising,sponsoring and graphic design.
I wanted to try and show the point that i feel that BMX racers (Olympic style) get noticed a lot easier than people who do freestyle, in my eyes i don't feel that one is harder than the other, in fact i feel that they are both extremely hard sports and you have to be very talented to do what they do. It also takes a lot of work/skill to do/perform what they do, seeing as they both put a lot of work in why does one get a lot more media attention than the other? I am not saying people haven't done well from freestyle BMXING, look at Jared Souney but what i am really saying is that the people who actually ride the bikes do not get enough attention and opportunities as they should seeing as some of the skill is incredible and takes years to master.
In this picture Souney captures the focus of the riders face, this also relates to how hard he tries and that he enjoys doing BMX freestyle and the trick he is performing takes a lot of practice so this shows that people should be given a chance in freestyle BMXING. Souney also manages to catch the three bike riders at the back watching, this shows that its an interesting thing to watch and it obviously doesn't get boring, as well as them being impressed it shows skill, both types of bike riders need skill to be good at what they do so this shows that they both have skill so why isn't there as much support for them as there is in BMX Racing?
Souney places the rider in the middle of the image, this is due to the rider being the main attraction, to make this work even better Souney blurs out the background slightly so that when you first look at the picture the thing in focus is the rider (which is what your eyes are drawn to immediately) Souney blurs the background by putting the shutter speed slightly slower and moving the camera when the image is taking blurring the shot.