[Photo] For those who skipped the Tai Chi post

[karohemd]

My favourite photo of the weekend. Someone practicing the Sabre form which wasn't part of the workshop. This guy was absolutely fantastic but I think the picture speaks for itself.



For the photo geeks: Kit lens at 70mm, f4.5, 1/250s, ISO 800 as I wanted as little motion blur as possible. Cropped and only a bit of fiddling with exposure/shadows and noise reduction in CameraRAW.

Comments

[akonken.livejournal.com]

He looks like an older Ewen Bremner.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Wantthatsword!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It's only wood, though. You'd want the real thing (http://www.wudang.se/jian/html/dao1.html).
Chinese sabres are beautiful but a bit tricky to wield as they are weighted towards the tip, not the hilt.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Or alternatively, pretty much any martial arts supply store should carry wooden training sabres.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well, eventually I'll have one... too busy saving at the moment!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The wooden ones are only about a tenner, maybe 15 quid if you want a really nice one.
So what are you saving for? :o)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Holidays in la belle France :)

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

may i photoshopp that?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you want to do?

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

Just some lighting effects. possibly place it into a composition piece with some additional texture.

its an intresting piece.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Go for it!

[renfield286.livejournal.com]

Thanks ;)

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

I like. :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :o)
Taking good photos wasn't easy because the sunlight flooding in throught the skylights and windows created a lot of bright and shadow areas but thanks to shooting in RAW, you can do a lot afterwards.

BTW, check nikon_d70 for a post with a link to the new version of the firmware.