Breakdance competition.

jogle · January 21, 2008

Went along with a friend of mine to shoot the Bodyrock breakboy competition, (in Wellington, New Zealand) in the weekend, I'm not really one for event photography but it was great fun, the opening round was open to anyone and the picked the best 16 to go into the heats.

Take a look in the gallery as there are far to many pics to post in the thread. http://www.ogle.co.nz/gallery/4194747

Thanks for looking.

ShepsMom · January 21, 2008

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! Nice shots!

digitalpins · January 21, 2008

I love every single one..... those are awesome and such fun shots

anwmn1 · January 21, 2008

Very cool stuff!

If you have never seen break dancing before check out this youtube clip. This guy is just insane!!:jawdrop

nicoleshilliday · January 23, 2008

The 3rd one is my fav! I love the expressions of the guys watching...everyone one of them is into it! Great shots! Enjoyed

SloYerRoll · January 24, 2008

Great shots! THanks for sharing!
I bet it was so much better to be there in person.

tlee · January 24, 2008

Wonderful series. Wish I had been there--looks like a lot of fun (for a spectator, of course

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evoryware · January 24, 2008

3, 4, 5, and 7 I love! Back when I used to do that in the 80's we used a cardboard or wood floor though, not brick!

Adaptive · January 29, 2008

jogle wrote:

Wow that is a really great shot!!!

LCD · January 29, 2008

I think you should be in to event photography. These are wonderful! I really enjoyed looking at them. I like how you alternated between blurring the audience and including them, I like when you chose to do so.

Lisa

LCD · January 29, 2008

PS do they call it break dancing because you break your body parts on that brick?!

SloYerRoll · January 29, 2008

LCD wrote:

PS do they call it break dancing because you break your body parts on that brick?!

NOPE

jogle · February 3, 2008

Thanks for all the kind words. The bboy's all seemed stoked with them and have ordered some prints which is great.

-James

Hary · February 4, 2008

I like them but dont you think they are a bit overexposed ?

AndyMcKay · February 4, 2008

I think the third is my fav!!!

Awais Yaqub · February 5, 2008

These are amazing great photos

jogle · February 5, 2008

Hary wrote:

I like them but dont you think they are a bit overexposed ?

Do you find all of them overexposed?

On some I was going for a look with the blacks flashed to expose more for the shadows so you can read the facial expressions (especially #4 and #6), then letting the highlights clip wherever they need to. The background people and the bricks are so busy that I needed some way of separating it from the foreground dancers, so I've pushed some of them right up too.

I'm really interested in your thoughts on that.

I tweaked these on a calibrated monitor but with LCD's it's hard to judge brightness correctly.

jogle · February 5, 2008

AndyMcKay wrote:

I think the third is my fav!!!

Thanks Andy.

That is BBoy Bounce. He was a guest judge in from Japan (even though he's canadian) he was giving a demo between rounds. The front couple of rows of the crowd are all the contestants giving him heaps of respect.

SloYerRoll · February 5, 2008

jogle wrote:

Do you find all of them overexposed?

On some I was going for a look with the blacks flashed to expose more for the shadows so you can read the facial expressions (especially #4 and #6), then letting the highlights clip wherever they need to. The background people and the bricks are so busy that I needed some way of separating it from the foreground dancers, so I've pushed some of them right up too.

I'm really interested in your thoughts on that.

I tweaked these on a calibrated monitor but with LCD's it's hard to judge brightness correctly.

I don't see them as overexposed. They just need to have the black point set on them. There's a big difference.

The one below might be a little bit hot, but nothing you can't easily fix. You don't really want to see any detail in the white stone behind him anyway.

Hary · February 6, 2008

SloYerRoll wrote:

I don't see them as overexposed. They just need to have the black point set on them. There's a big difference.

The one below might be a little bit hot, but nothing you can't easily fix. You don't really want to see any detail in the white stone behind him anyway.

I think i get what you're saying.

I made some (actually a lot of) highlight recovery in this one, some black clipping and pushed the brightness just a but higher.
p.s. I'm no pro - just sharing my thoughts (with no lcd calibration etc.)

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Breakdance competition.

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