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Went to the Thai Festival in Melbourne yesterday and met up with Alex and Genji.

I'll post the photos of the fashion show and beauty contest later as I was working on the Thai Kickboxing exhibiton first (was a tad more interesting)

I decided to for a heavy b&w conversion and applied a bit of brown to the colour balance to give it the really old martial arts movie feel to it. Hope it's not overdone

Here are a few of my picks - the rest of the gallery can be found here













All photos taken with the 50mm 1.8 at around f2.2 and between 1/120s and 1/200. From memory the ISO was variable between 400 and 640.

Nice, Wayne. I haven't done any processing on my kickboxing shots yes, but there will be a few keepers. Might get stuck into them tonight. I might convert mine to B&W also as the lighting was crap and tones came out a bit warm (reddish).

I like the first 2. Some seem to be a bit overexposed in places, possibly because of crappy lighting. Another thing I'd use a smaller aperture - f2.8-4 to get more focus, possibly at higher iso. But great images.

Alex

hi

may i ask why did you cut their legs off??

Thanks Alex. It wasn't really due to being overexposed. I had more issues with the background as the posters were really distracting and unfortunately I couldn't do much about that.

Byrt_001 - I composed the shots to focus more on the point of contact, rather than the full body. Ideally if I had spent more time on the PP, I would have cropped some of the pics a bit closer but this was more of a quick conversion than anything.

Muoy-Thai we call that., Very popular it's good for healthy

looks like something out of aold tv series, very very cool, how did you achieve this effect?

Thanks Wendell That's what I was imagining at the time..wanted to give it the really old martial arts movie feel to it, including the grain and the blur from the fighters moving too quickly. Also reminded me of some of Bruce Lee movies

Basically desaturated, bumped up the shadow level, reduced the exp comp and applied a tinge of brown in Colour Balance. I used Rawshooter premium but the process would be similar in p/shop.

yeah i guessed the shadow contrast
but what makes these special is that almost all the elements fit that retro nmostalgic 60's kung fu flick style
i am sure if you had shot any other scene and applied the same pp it wouldn't be the same
coudl you post the original image i want to see how that looks like

I also like the conversion. Fits the images very well.

Will post them up tonight guys. Trust me, the colour version was absolute crap 'cos of the lighting and the colours of the bkg. Was too distracting.

Wendell and for anybody else interested...

This was how bad the lighting conditions were for the Muay Thai exhibition...



The original was a lot warmer than this and the boxer and trainer were just lost in the background.