The toughest part of being an official photographer of MAP, is choosing among the hundreds of photos that I’ve taken during a tournament. In the two-day Muay Thai National Finals, I took more than 700 photos and due to the limited space in this blog, I have to choose no more than 15 pictures. I’m no expert photographer and I haven’t done any formal photography lessons (except for a few informal lessons a photojournalist gave me way back in college). Heck, I haven’t even read my photography books.
Here are some of the pics I took and I promise to do better in the next tournament.
A picture perfect roundhouse kick to the body by a female fighter from Batangas City.
Benedicto Alumno (in red gears) landed a solid straight punch to fellow RP team member, Eugene Toquero
Ryan Jakiri (red gear) catching what could have been a good teep by fellow national team member Tyrone Naticho
National Team member Jay Malubay (in blue) doing ala Matrix move by evading a roundhouse kick from Zaidi Laruan. Zaidi was unanimously voted as the best fighter of the tournament.
Jonathan Polosan of the RP team executed countless sweeps to edge out a unanimous victory over Zamboanga City’s Jasper Lim.
Videos courtesy of Mr. Vic Benedicto will be posted next.
October 5, 2009 at 4:50 pm |
HI,
I guess with that terrible lighting, you made the best there is.
One thing that made it difficult to get good shots was the lighting. It was focused on the bottom tarpaulin. reflecting light into our cameras. ( your #2 pix above. the PTT Performa tarpaulin in front of the table officials.).
even the 2 news pro-photogs, had a hard time getting good shots.
sana naka focus man lang dun sa centro ng ring.
October 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm |
Thanks po for your heads up. Trial and error lang kasi ang gawain ko. Have no time to read my photography books.