Thursday, 19 June 2014

Photographing Judo: Getting the detail in the Gi

As you will be aware from the previous post, I recently photographed some Judo. It's one of the hardest things I've tried to shoot to date - extremely erratic, fast moving subjects, bad lighting and lots of white. As a result, most of the images came out rather flat; this post outlines a few things I did to coax some life back into my shots, which hopefully you'll find useful next time you find yourself photographing martial arts.

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Monday, 9 June 2014

Judo

I recently shot a Judo competition. There's a short post on some useful post-production I did in the works, but for now if you'd like to see the images they're here. Enjoy! Benji.
All photos on this blog are © Benjamin Sidi, unless specified otherwise. See "About Me" if you wish to use one of them.

Monday, 2 June 2014

HDR

HDR seems to be a contentious topic; some people really like it, others hate it with a passion. For those who hate it, their reasoning usually comes down to the existence of a seemingly endless amount of really horribly edited photos whose only upside is that they look extremely wacky (see below). However, done well, HDR can be an very useful tool.
All photos on this blog are © Benjamin Sidi, unless specified otherwise. See "About Me" if you wish to use one of them.