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This is one of the most difficult actions for me to capture in soccer.

What do you think?

French translation:

These are words which go together (well)....

Happy holidays,

I was amazed at the quality of the file from the D3 considering the lighting conditions and that it was hand-held. My friend Leonard Gross provided the Corel/Jacs Painter program for PP.

Your comments are well taken- she and I concepted this shot not as a martial arts image but as portraying her as a 'masthead' on a sailing vessel.

We felt that as such the shot worked, and hope others will enjoy it.

Thanks for reviewing my site, and best wishes this holiday.

My apology for this LATE response....

This is one of my favorite shots ever done with my D70, and I have a large print in my radiology office. I'm very glad you enjoy it.

Sorry for the LATE response!

I had quite a bit of control in-camera with the D2X and tried to previsualize this effect as much as possible to help choose where to position the camera.

Fluorescent lighting, hand-held at ISO 6400 with D3 and 70-200mm f/2.8

VR with PP in Corel Painter

Image overlay with Nikon D3, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor and cyanotype

in-camera retouching

I felt that this tight crop gave the best balance to the shot, and the model expressed that she was happy with the image.

Thanks for looking-

William

Jane was shot in flourescent balance with studio flash in RAW and 2

images were selected for superimposition in the camera.

I printed this image later, with experimental color settings.

I submitted a monochrome derivative of this image file in my portfolio

as well; this was an IR direct capture with #87 Wratten filter, D200,

12-24 DX

The D200 was used for a RAW image overlay composite of 2 files shot in

afternoon light, with 18-200 VR lens.

Originially, this was a long-exposure color rendition of the moon near

the horizon in the California desert. It was altered in CS2

Used Nikon D2X and image overlay feature to combine 5 RAW images

in-camera (studio flash)

I hung from a jumar (ascender) on a nearby climbing rope to shoot this

one with a Nikon F5 and 16mm fisheye- scanned from transparency