Osotogari demonstrated during jiu-jitsu training

Instructor and student demonstrating a throw. Scene lit by two Bowens

Esprit kit placed at 45 degree angle on either side of subjects.

 

Comments/Suggestions welcome

Your background doesn't help this image, which is a good moment in the small space of time it takes this move to happen. When I recently photographed in a couple of dojos, I had to find clean backgrounds where ever I could. Here's what I did, with one light in a 60" umbrella with a little fill from a nearby wall, that was painted the same off-white as the one behind these guys... t

Excellent movement captured here.

 

Maybe a little more attention to the lighting would enhance this shot.

 

It would be an interesting shot using a flash sync of 1/4000 s exposure in the dark or even a strobing flash in the dark

 

 

Mike Sea

Loose and static. And it looks like your main light source is behind the fighters faces.

 

The leg does give a nice lineage with the wall though.

nice atmosphere. i like the expression of the Tori. the framework is somewhat disturbing for my taste. of course, depends of the intended use. for a demonstrative photo of o-soto-gari, this is the very end of the actual throw, I mean it is actually difficult to see this shot as a result of o soto gari at all. I "judge" this as an expression shot, a clean 6/6 :) Technically, there are many things to say. I am a judoka myself etc.