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Muai Thai (Thai Kick Boxing)

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Muai Thai (Thai Kick Boxing)

Postby Alex on Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:39 pm

This is my take on Thai boxing performance from Thai Songkran festival that we shot yesterday.

As Wayne already mentioned lighting was bad, so I did B&W conversion. Shot at ISO1000, f2.8. All shots were with Nikkor 50/1.4.

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C&C are more than welcome.

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Postby Steffen on Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:27 pm

Ouch!

The second or third would make nice tourism ads :wink:

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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:59 am

As each day passes and every time I look at your pics taken with that 1.4 I'm really yearning to get the 1.4. :evil:

Alex, play around with increasing the shadow levels and watch your b&w pics come to life :)
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Postby Alex on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:29 am

Thanks for the comments, guys. Wayne: I tried increasing shadows with shadow and highlight but that makes skin tones way too dark, to the point of looking too unnatural. May be I'm missing something.
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Postby ABG on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:02 am

Nice work Alex. Great dramatic action series.
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Postby Alex on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:10 am

PiroStitch wrote:As each day passes and every time I look at your pics taken with that 1.4 I'm really yearning to get the 1.4. :evil:

Alex, play around with increasing the shadow levels and watch your b&w pics come to life :)


Wayne. Interesting. They look ok on my CRT at home and on another CRT at work. When I go to LCDs they look a bit light. I will make it a point to increase shadows next time a bit even if it looks a tad dark on CRT at home. I tweaked my home CRT to the lab where I do occasional printing (you know the lab :-))

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Postby Alex on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:12 am

ABG wrote:Nice work Alex. Great dramatic action series.


Thanks, Andrew.

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