{"id":2454,"date":"2018-06-29T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:11:07","slug":"first-tae-kwon-do-headquarters-in-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/first-tae-kwon-do-headquarters-in-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tae Kwon Do Headquarters in June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit First Tae Kwon Do headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia. The hall had challenging lighting\u2014strong daylight from outside was mixed with at least two different types of interior lighting. In a few of the photographs below, the subjects are clearly backlit, and it took significant exposure compensation in post-processing to create workable images. Thanks to the incredible flexibility of RAW images and DxO Optics Pro, it was largely a matter of choosing a base compensation to start with, and then making adjustments from there.<\/p>\n

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FTKD turning kick instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD knife-hand strike instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD knife-hand strike instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD front snap kick, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD turning kick instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD knife-hand strike instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD side kick instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD elbow strike instruction, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD turning kick, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FTKD side kick, June 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From a photographic point of view, one of the boons of shooting traditional martial arts is that every frame has someone in a white uniform in it\u2014and that, of course, makes it much easier to achieve good exposure and good colour balance in the final image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit First Tae Kwon Do headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia. The hall had challenging lighting\u2014strong daylight from outside was mixed with at least two different types of interior lighting. In a few of the photographs below, the subjects are clearly backlit, and it took significant exposure compensation in post-processing… Continue reading First Tae Kwon Do Headquarters in June 2018<\/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":[19],"tags":[355,27,332,278,70,356,260],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-martial-arts","tag-adelaide","tag-breaking-action","tag-dxo-optics-pro","tag-ftkd","tag-martial-arts","tag-south-australia","tag-tkd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}