Aikido

Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 6 July 2011 in Sport & Recreation and Portfolio.

This is Chris Wallace (3rd Dan) photographed at Marple Aikido on 2nd July 2011.

Over the next few days I'll show you some photos that I took on the occasion of a visit to Marple Aikido by Japanese teacher Atsushi Mimuro (Aikikai 6th Dan).

With some of the photos, like this one, I deliberatley used a slow shutter speed to try and give a sense of the flowing movement that characterises Aikido.

For this image I used a 6 stop neutral density filter fixed to the front of my 85mm prime lens which allowed me to shoot with a very shallow depth of field and slow shutter speed - f1.4 and 1/5th of a second handheld.

I still find it amazing that my Nikon D700 camera was effortlessly able to track on Chris's face at f1.4 via it's continuous auto-focus system through the dark glass of the 6 stop nd filter.

Like what you see here and are interested in photographic composition?.....the blog section of my website now has a complete set of 5 articles covering my personal approach to the subject: Ian Bramham Photography - Blog

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Links to the websites of other photographer friends (and the world famous Michael Kenna!) whose work I admire:
Michael Kenna
Hugo Poon
John Leech
Ian Smith
Mike Spriggs

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