Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:46 PM 11/18/2005, Philippe Orlent wrote: >Hi Richard, >I like 1 and 15 most, because they're documenting the movements well >in a neutral way (I think). >3 had the same potential, but I would have framed it lower, to take >compositional advantage of the diagonal of his left leg pointing >straight to the right hand bottom corner. Thus, you also would have >gotten rid of the 'no diving no swimming' sign that adds nothing to >the image. Hi Philippe, master Hong is pretty accommodating, picture taking wise. Some martial arts teachers do not like to be photographed (don't quite know why). Anyway, he was not posing per se, he was doing different portions of the Wu Fast Form, which is one of the rarer forms. The entire form with ~90 "moves" is done in 4 minutes, in contrast to the Wu Slow Form / Yang Form which take ~20-30 minutes to do. So I was just walking around looking for picture opportunity. It is because of the this reason that I didn't use a shallower depth of field. Since the primary purpose of the photographs is to document him and not demonstrating photographic artistry, I didn't want to chance it and misfocus and not have a clear picture etc. As it is, I took one roll of 36 exp, and there may be only about 2 or 3 that are half decent. Thanks for commenting! >13 is just to much clutter in the background IMO. I suppose you >could have moved to the right to get a shot of his profile and less >distracting background elements. >BTW, why didn't you shoot it wide open to get the background out of >focus? >Philippe > > >Op 18-nov-05, om 17:39 heeft Richard het volgende geschreven: > >>Not me of course :-) >> >>Since "Da Feet" is such a disaster, here's a set of pictures of >>Master Hong. Not great photographically, but amazing Tai Chi skills >>being displayed: http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/ >>MasterHong.11.18.05/ >> >>// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, >>please use richard at imagecraft.com) >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)