On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:42 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 6/14/2011 11:16, Larry Colen wrote: >> The result of my thrash to deal with the horrid lighting was the >> sensei posting this comment to my facebook post of the link to the >> pictures: >> >> "Your work is amazing! I love your photos of the test, including the >> effects that emerged when you shot into the sunlight on the wall. >> These are some of my favorite aikido photos ever, and I'm really >> looking forward to posting some of them on the website." >> ... >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626831857291/ > > Larry, few points: > > * The 20110612-LRC11582.jpg is amazing.
Thank you. That's the one that I promoted into my monthly favorites collection. > The 20110612-LRC11847-2.jpg is also quite excellent. The first shot of the > series is also very good. May be even the best of the whole series because of > the glasses of the non-Japanese fellow on the tatami and the fact that the > other guy on the back is reading something... The guy in the back is Nick Walker, the sensei, and he's probably looking at his list of what techniques Alex is to be tested on. > > * I am not practicing martial arts, but your photographs appear to have > excellent timing and they appear very diverse in subject. Different phases of > motions, different aspects of the contest, different facial expressions of > the participants. Thank you. I shot a stupid huge number of photos, because you can't really tell a lot of those things when the action is happening, then went through and sorted them down by a factor of 10, then the sensei sorted them down by a factor of 6 after that. So these basically represent a one in 60 keeper ratio. I suspect that I'm not getting better at taking pictures, just at throwing them away. > > * Someone from the list, whereas presently it seems to me it was Jostein, but > I might be wrong, once told me that the more you work on the picture the more > successful it may become. It seems exactly the case here. There's definitely as much art in processing the photos as in taking them. I tend not to favor photos that look overprocessed, so there's some trick to doing the processing in a way that doesn't look like any has been done at all. There's probably some correlation between processing a photo and a woman wearing makeup. Some people think that if it's obvious it looks trashy, and other people like that trashy look. > > So, very well done, my friend, very well indeed. Thank you very much. Also thanks to Paul, Steven, Sam, Charles, Christine and Bong. Bong, what art does your son study? This dojo is in a space that is used for several things, aikido, iado, aerial gymnastics, and I expect "regular" dance: http://studio12flys.org In my home dojo, I find that it is often much easier to photograph at night, despite there being less light because the pools of light, while they sometimes add a nice effect, usually just blow out small sections of the photo. I ended up not pulling out my K-x at all, but my feeling is that any camera with less dynamic range than the K-5 would not have worked nearly so well. I had to significantly boost the shadows to the point of seeing a fair amount of noise, even at ISO 250 or lower. I used a fair amount of LR3's noise reduction on several of the photos. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
