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I hoped I chopped it right and did edits to make look better right.

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Nice, a couple of thoughts are the shadows could do with a little lift and he could do to be less central,more to the left to give him space in front.



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An easy rule to follow when photographing people and things that are in motion, is to give them space to move into. You will nearly always get a stronger image that way. Tight crops can give a sense of being close to the action but a looser crop feels more in motion.



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As Mike and Peter said, from the point of composition, give the surfer space to move into especially for the second picture. The first picture (almost square crop) looks fine to me as the surfer comes to the camera, but both of them would benefit to have the shadows slightly lifted.

An ideal (perception) is when you apply the GOLDEN RATIO (you will find a number of articles on this on internet).
I have applied a golden ratio graph over your capture
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and then cropped it, so the surfer is more or less on the line
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to give you an idea how it can improve the picture.
Ideally that picture would have offered some space in the lower part, especially as the background (sea, but no big waves) doesn't add much.

A "simplified" golden ratio is to keep the main subject on 1/3 from the border, leaving always space in the direction of the movement.

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It also would have improved things to have a little more foreground in the frame. In your original composition, look how much space you left above his head, and how little you left below the board.



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For got post had d5300 iso 100 f/2.8 1/4000 -1/2000 not sure on last one also where i was stand made it hard to get square with guy since try to stand on level even ground. Do to fact last hurricane took a lot of beach