Breakdance competition.

[jogle]

Went along with a friend of mine to shoot the Bodyrock breakboy competition, (in Wellington, New Zealand) in the weekend, I'm not really one for event photography but it was great fun, the opening round was open to anyone and the picked the best 16 to go into the heats.

Take a look in the gallery as there are far to many pics to post in the thread. http://www.ogle.co.nz/gallery/4194747


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Thanks for looking.

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[ShepsMom]

Wow, that looks like a lot of fun! Nice shots! :thumb

[digitalpins]

I love every single one..... those are awesome and such fun shots:clap

[anwmn1]

Very cool stuff! :thumb

If you have never seen break dancing before check out this youtube cli (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gw9VE16mo)p. This guy is just insane!!:jawdrop

[nicoleshilliday]

The 3rd one is my fav! I love the expressions of the guys watching...everyone one of them is into it! Great shots! Enjoyed :D

[SloYerRoll]

Great shots! THanks for sharing!
I bet it was so much better to be there in person.

[tlee]

Wonderful series. Wish I had been there--looks like a lot of fun (for a spectator, of course :D).

[evoryware]

3, 4, 5, and 7 I love! Back when I used to do that in the 80's we used a cardboard or wood floor though, not brick!

[Adaptive]

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Wow that is a really great shot!!!

[LCD]

I think you should be in to event photography. These are wonderful! I really enjoyed looking at them. I like how you alternated between blurring the audience and including them, I like when you chose to do so.
:clap :clap

Lisa

[LCD]

PS do they call it break dancing because you break your body parts on that brick?! :D

[SloYerRoll]

PS do they call it break dancing because you break your body parts on that brick?! :DNOPE (http://www.dancermag.com/articles/street-dance/etymology-of-break-dance/) :D

[jogle]

Thanks for all the kind words. The bboy's all seemed stoked with them and have ordered some prints which is great.

-James

[Hary]

I like them but dont you think they are a bit overexposed ?

[AndyMcKay]

I think the third is my fav!!!

[Awais Yaqub]

These are amazing great photos

[jogle]

I like them but dont you think they are a bit overexposed ?

Do you find all of them overexposed?

On some I was going for a look with the blacks flashed to expose more for the shadows so you can read the facial expressions (especially #4 and #6), then letting the highlights clip wherever they need to. The background people and the bricks are so busy that I needed some way of separating it from the foreground dancers, so I've pushed some of them right up too.

I'm really interested in your thoughts on that.

I tweaked these on a calibrated monitor but with LCD's it's hard to judge brightness correctly.

[jogle]

I think the third is my fav!!!

Thanks Andy.

That is BBoy Bounce. He was a guest judge in from Japan (even though he's canadian) he was giving a demo between rounds. The front couple of rows of the crowd are all the contestants giving him heaps of respect.

[SloYerRoll]

Do you find all of them overexposed?

On some I was going for a look with the blacks flashed to expose more for the shadows so you can read the facial expressions (especially #4 and #6), then letting the highlights clip wherever they need to. The background people and the bricks are so busy that I needed some way of separating it from the foreground dancers, so I've pushed some of them right up too.

I'm really interested in your thoughts on that.

I tweaked these on a calibrated monitor but with LCD's it's hard to judge brightness correctly.I don't see them as overexposed. They just need to have the black point set on them. There's a big difference.

The one below might be a little bit hot, but nothing you can't easily fix. You don't really want to see any detail in the white stone behind him anyway.
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[Hary]

I don't see them as overexposed. They just need to have the black point set on them. There's a big difference.

The one below might be a little bit hot, but nothing you can't easily fix. You don't really want to see any detail in the white stone behind him anyway.

I think i get what you're saying.

I made some (actually a lot of) highlight recovery in this one, some black clipping and pushed the brightness just a but higher.
p.s. I'm no pro - just sharing my thoughts (with no lcd calibration etc.)

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