my kendo album

[taganahan]

hey check out my kendo album. i'm still new with photography and the pictures might not look that good or aritistic. i'm also trying to figure out how my camera works.

plz. tell me what you think about it guyz.

http://community.webshots.com/user/taganahan

~taganahan

[Yann]

Niiiice ! Keep up the good work taganahan !

[Neil Gendzwill]

Looks like some sort of special occasion - Phil showed up!

[Swissv2]

who is phil? I can't tell, hehe.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Philip Nishikihama, former Team Canada member, longtime Steveston dude.

[amatsuda]

Good to See Nishikihama Sensei back at the Dojo.

[Andoru]

We really need a sticky thread with all the kendo photos in it!

Nice work by the way!

[TheNige]

Nice work. I'm not sure if you were trying to be artistic with the blurry photos or not....but if you want sharper photos and you have an SLR camera try to raise the ISO setting on the camera...if it is digital and use a faster shutter speed so it doesn't blur.

The lighting in the dojo doesn't look like the best...as is the case a lot of times indoors so your flash really isn't going to do much at great distances....that is where the higher ISO comes in for shooting in darker conditions with higher shutter speeds (I think).

[Andoru]

....that is where the higher ISO comes in for shooting in darker conditions with higher shutter speeds (I think).

Indeed. There is a trade-off however - the higher the ISO the more noise (or grain if using film). There are other factors which influence noise/grain too. For example, I used an ISO 1600 film (Fuji Press) for this shot:

http://unswkendo.timeless-sky.net/pics/act2004/01.jpg

Which looks alright. But contrast that to this shot (same film, same location etc) which has significantly more grain:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1241/ROLL2DX-30.jpg

Though I can tell you that digital photography is more predictable than film in this regard.

Flash looks unnatural when taking kendo photos, but fill-flash is alright.

[taganahan]

oh yeah....the special occassion was all about the tall ship that arrived from japan. it's called the kaiwo maru. a training vessel. some of the cadets and officers trained with us during that day.

i really meant those other pictures to be blurry. those other ones that are dark, those are the ones which i'm not sure if they're good. i have to agree that the lighting is poor. i tried to do some photoshop on it but it messed up the quality of the picture. grrrr

by the way, i'm using a digital camera for all of those pictures. canon A80. just got it and i'm still trying to mess around with it.

~taganahan

[D'Artagnan]

by the way, i'm using a digital camera for all of those pictures. canon A80. just got it and i'm still trying to mess around with it.

~taganahan

Just a suggstion,

You need to adjust the white balnce when working with artificial lights (though not with flash). Some of them have a horrible yellow cast on them caused by this.

[taganahan]

i'll keep that in mind. it's also a good idea for me to read the manual....hahaha

~taganahan

[YAMAFELL]

Good pictures! I really need to get more of mind out there.. I wish I could be at a speical event with many people who are not Japanese. I swear, I am still in shock knowing so many people play kendo around the world. I was a bit stupid at first and still am, the only non-Japanese I have played against is from my dojo who started with me, but he is from taiwan, so everyone mistakes him for being Japanese. Although there was this one guy from Holland once, but I didn't get the chance to play him. (I was, still am, to bad to play against him.)

but enough of my rambleing.. great shots! I love seeing kendo pictures!

[Mr.Tvola]

Pictures are OK, but you should show them at different website, this one is downloading a lot of spyware/adwae to viewer's computers

[taganahan]

but you should show them at different website, this one is downloading a lot of spyware/adwae to viewer's computers

really? i don't have any problems with the adwares and spywares here cause if i do, my firewall and anti-virus should alert me a long time ago.

~taganahan