A sequence of images that took me by surprise.
Last fall I went to shoot a Muay Thai seminar at a local MMA gym to see two masters do their thing and teach a pretty cool class. I had just gotten there and things were just winding up.
As I found, this gym is really hard to shoot at, due to very mixed light from a few horrible overhead lights and a large window that provides ever changing light. Combine that with a red floor and 1 red wall 1 yellow wall and 1 white wall. At this point I had only taken a few shots and was still figuring this place out. The two masters were going through a routine. It was pretty cool. Lots of kicks, knees, elbows, the whole deal. Pretty easy to follow. Until this.... I wish I could convey the sound of this. The yell this dude let out as he leaped into the air directly in front of me throwing this skull crushing flying elbow. It was fricken amazing in every way. The fact that a dude that big, jumped that high that fast blew my mind. I was really happy to have caught it. I was not ready for it at all because of the rhythm of what was going on previous to this. Top it off with the fact I was really pretty close sitting on the mat.
For this sequence the color was terrible and the exposure was not very good. But the owner/ guy flying through the air, loved this sequence. They weren't the best shots from the day and they are not even that good period. Cropped a lot, bad color, bad exposure. So I did the photojournalist trick and converted them to B&W. It can make a crappy photo.........less crappy. :clapIt took a ton of work to get them here. And I am happy with the end result.
Since then I shot another seminar (Jiu Jitsu) and got to know some of the instructors and fighters from the gym. A few of the guys convinced me to come down try Jiu Jitsu. I am now a member there. It has been a great experience. I decided to give the owner this sequence of photos as a gift.
This is how I am framing these. 9x9 photos with a matte 36x15". I printed them myself on Hahnemule Photorag. Lots of proofs and tweaking to get them just how I wanted. Turning poop into lemonade! They came out really nice.
As I found, this gym is really hard to shoot at, due to very mixed light from a few horrible overhead lights and a large window that provides ever changing light. Combine that with a red floor and 1 red wall 1 yellow wall and 1 white wall. At this point I had only taken a few shots and was still figuring this place out. The two masters were going through a routine. It was pretty cool. Lots of kicks, knees, elbows, the whole deal. Pretty easy to follow. Until this.... I wish I could convey the sound of this. The yell this dude let out as he leaped into the air directly in front of me throwing this skull crushing flying elbow. It was fricken amazing in every way. The fact that a dude that big, jumped that high that fast blew my mind. I was really happy to have caught it. I was not ready for it at all because of the rhythm of what was going on previous to this. Top it off with the fact I was really pretty close sitting on the mat.
For this sequence the color was terrible and the exposure was not very good. But the owner/ guy flying through the air, loved this sequence. They weren't the best shots from the day and they are not even that good period. Cropped a lot, bad color, bad exposure. So I did the photojournalist trick and converted them to B&W. It can make a crappy photo.........less crappy. :clapIt took a ton of work to get them here. And I am happy with the end result.
Since then I shot another seminar (Jiu Jitsu) and got to know some of the instructors and fighters from the gym. A few of the guys convinced me to come down try Jiu Jitsu. I am now a member there. It has been a great experience. I decided to give the owner this sequence of photos as a gift.
This is how I am framing these. 9x9 photos with a matte 36x15". I printed them myself on Hahnemule Photorag. Lots of proofs and tweaking to get them just how I wanted. Turning poop into lemonade! They came out really nice.
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So, now that you're a member, how long before the annoying GWC's at a photo shoot need to be worried about getting a shot to the clavicle?
Nice work Zerodog
I studied Karate for a while because I saw a demonstration where a very big guy dis an awesome spinning back kick.
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