The Yoshinkan Aikido dojo in Takadanobaba, Tokyo.
This was the first time I’ve photographed, or even seen, Aikido and was for my new job. I was very kindly invited by 7th Dan master Jacques Payet.
My first impression of Aikido training was that it looks like a mixture of effortless grace and intense pain — no doubt depending on which side of the attack you are.
The full story is on the EURObiZ Japan website.
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I like the photos and Mr. Jacques Payet looks very cool. I wouldn’t have any problems with him ;)
Greetings from Germany
Tarvios
Hi Tony – when taking these indoor shots with artificial lighting did you do anything special? ….. like adjusting the white balance?
Cheers
Keith
yes, in Photoshop Camera Raw
osu sensei! beautiful photos, outstanding point of view!
Hi Again Tony – any reason why you chose to use Photoshop to play with the RAW image instead of the SW that came with your camera? better at it? more versatile? … just picking your brains as I`m `getting back` into photography & trying to dabble with all this digital stuff :-) thx
Keith
The Photoshop Camera Raw is pretty good, although I’ve being using the Lightroom 3 Beta recently. I’ve got a feeling I’ll switch to that when it goes on sale.
Its a while since I’ve used any of the Nikon software. I’ve heard the quality of the RAW conversion is slightly better than Photoshop (the colors are nicer), but it was pretty slow when I used it. May well be better now.
Lightroom or Aperture is probably your best bet by the sounds of it.
Looks like a fun assignment to shoot.
Paule
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Jean-Luc de l’ile de la réunion je voudrais savoir de quel pays est Jacques Payet?
De la réunion Jean-luc, de la Chaloupe saint-leu exactement