{"id":1552,"date":"2016-03-17T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:37:20","slug":"march-2016-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/march-2016-action\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2016 action"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Tae Kwon Do (Western Australia) held its first grading examination recently, and I was on hand to capture some of the action. The venue was well lit, and the only lighting challenge was when shooting against external light, as you can see in one of the pictures below.<\/p>\n

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FTKD one-step sparring, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here we see a crescent kick being executed defensively. Timing-wise, I don’t think it would have been possible to do better than this. A different angle could possibly\u00a0have shown the sweeping action of the kicking leg a bit better.<\/p>\n

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FTKD self-defence, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next is a take-down executed as part of a self-defence combination of techniques. Shooting a fraction of a second later, and with a longer exposure duration, would have captured some motion blur, which might portray the action better. A short exposure duration freezes the action, but this isn’t always necessarily desirable.<\/p>\n

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FTKD free sparring, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Free sparring is always a good opportunity\u00a0for shooting some exciting action\u2014in this case, we see a running jumping front snap kick, slightly before the peak moment of the technique.<\/p>\n

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FTKD jumping\u00a0back kick, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jumping back kick can be difficult to capture; timing is critically important as the martial artist is turning, and at the same time rising and falling as he\/she jumps. A little too early, and you get a half-turned body. A little too late and the kick is over, with the legs already preparing for landing. This particular image took some work due to the tight framing, but I’d consider it my best photograph from\u00a0the event.<\/p>\n

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FTKD black belt promotion, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above is Master Vernon Low tying a new black belt onto a successful candidate. There were many other photographers at work, so getting a ‘clean’ angle to allow the viewer to focus completely on the activity at hand proved a little difficult at times.<\/p>\n

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FTKD pattern, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here we see some elbow strikes executed as part of a pattern of movements. At around f\/2, depth of field is minimal, but the subject distance counterbalances that somewhat; the foreground subject is out of focus, but not too much so. Focus was obviously on the second subject from the lens, but an alternative approach (and the more conventional one) would have been to focus on the foreground subject at the left of the frame.<\/p>\n

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FTKD jumping front snap kick, March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the same subject captured a fraction of a second\u00a0after the midpoint of a jumping front snap kick. The kick is still fully extended, but the supporting leg is already well on the way to landing. There is a ‘fan’ type of structure visible which I hadn’t noticed at the time of shooting; the subject’s right arm, right leg (kicking leg), and the right leg of the subject in the foreground make up a loose fan-like arrangement. If the leg in the foreground had been slightly higher, I suspect\u00a0the arrangement would have been more aesthetically pleasing. This is a heavily cropped image from a landscape-oriented frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Tae Kwon Do (Western Australia) held its first grading examination recently, and I was on hand to capture some of the action. The venue was well lit, and the only lighting challenge was when shooting against external light, as you can see in one of the pictures below. Here we see a crescent kick… Continue reading March 2016 action<\/span> →<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,278,70,160,28,24,260,277],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-breaking-action","tag-ftkd","tag-martial-arts","tag-patterns-action","tag-photographic-technique","tag-sparring-action","tag-tkd","tag-vernon-low"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}