Jiu Jitsu Tournament

[GadgetRick]

Shot a tournament this past weekend. This one is my friend (on top), he's one of the most decorated grapplers in the country. He won his 85th and 86th championships this past weekend (difference classes of course). Working on my skillz....

28mm
f2.8
1/60
Flash (1/8th power diffused)
ISO 500

[misterchristophe]

I like it very much. TFS
i'm a noob, so I don't know what to say besides it's great.

[EMansfield]

Great timing in this shot. I just wished the players were further isolated from the background so they would appear to pop out more. I would suggest rotating the image just a bit to straighten out the verticals in the background.

Cheers!

Eric Mansfield

[GadgetRick]

Originally Posted by EMansfield

Great timing in this shot. I just wished the players were further isolated from the background so they would appear to pop out more. I would suggest rotating the image just a bit to straighten out the verticals in the background.

Cheers!

Eric Mansfield

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about the background at these things. I'll look at rotating the image and see what I can get.

Thanks.

[wamplers]

Nice job. I'd hate to be close enough to shoot that at 28mm, though!

[archersdad]

Originally Posted by GadgetRick

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about the background at these things..

You could just cheat and apply a blur to the background with photoshop to simulate a shallower depth of field.

[wamplers]

Originally Posted by archersdad

You could just cheat and apply a blur to the background with photoshop to simulate a shallower depth of field.

That's very time consuming and usually very fake looking.

[GadgetRick]

Originally Posted by wamplers

Nice job. I'd hate to be close enough to shoot that at 28mm, though!

Well I've got a few medals from these tournaments myself so I'm not worried about being close.

[GadgetRick]

Originally Posted by wamplers

That's very time consuming and usually very fake looking.

Actually, there is a plugin (I forget the name of it) which is designed to simulate bokeh. My friend has it and it does work quite well and it's not hard to use.

[wamplers]

Originally Posted by GadgetRick

Actually, there is a plugin (I forget the name of it) which is designed to simulate bokeh. My friend has it and it does work quite well and it's not hard to use.

There's one called "bokeh." I think it's fairly expensive. I'm sure there's more, but as far as I know, you still have to do the masking don't you?