Apr 22nd, 2007
Everybody Loves Kung Fu Fighting
Yesterday afternoon, Jeremy, Ibah and I drove out to Putrajaya in hopes of catching a few good landscape shots. Unfortunately there was a barrage of torrential rain that made that impossible, and when the rain died down, the remaining storm clouds blotted out the sun. But that’s when a more brilliant Plan B arose. We found a perfect spot to loosen up, stretch out, and jump around with flying kicks and such! And I felt like a happy little kid again.
Everybody loves Kung Fu fighting! And they were as fast as lightning! - That song is officially stuck in my head now. And I’ve got the full version of this photo up on my Flickr account.
Setting up the shot
Setting this up was actually quite easy if you know the fair basics of light. We waited until the storm clouds covered up the sky enough so that we could get a decent exposure of the sky without blown out highlights using a fast shutter speed, and I used my speedlight to illuminate Ibah. I had the camera shutter set to 1/500 and the aperture set to f/8. We positioned Ibah in front of the brightest part of the sky to get that nice dramatic effect, and the rest was all just timing!
Woohooo…flying kick! Haiiiyaahhhh!!!!
We definitely need a diffuser next time. I love the sky best here.
Btw, you can upload your shot to flickr and then copy the image with the link here. Save bandwidth.
awesooooooooooooooooome!!
(i think there’s enough ‘o’ there to show how great the picture is!)
but my face is kinda blank without any expression
but as for the photos, i’ll leave to the experts to do it. jeremy and you. 
i only have candid ones in my blog
Hahahahaha yeeeeaaah!!! Flying kicks galore!
Orange, Yep, a diffuser would have been great, actually getting a stand and a reflective umbrella would work well with the wireless! And yeah, I just adjusted it so that I’m grabbing the image from the Flickr db, thanks for the note man!
ibah, hehehehe yeah that’s a lot of o’s yo! Actually the expression works really well according to some people, the “blankness” gives it a sort of surreal feeling that goes with the rest of the visual strangeness
Very nice…what time of day was it?
Ooppsss….one more thing. Flickr has a rule: You need to link back to the picture in Flickr if you are showing the photo from another site.
wad, it was about 630pm
about an hour before dusk over here.
orange, ohhh yeah! i should get that fixed, but then since it is my own image it shouldn’t be too much of a big boo boo