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Next weekend see's the annual running of the Winter series of the Toughguy Championships in Wolverhampton. This is one taken last year in a location called the Killing Feilds, where they run though Mud freezing water and burning hay. its just a small part of the total 10k assualt course.
It also happened to be the day when the snow started last year and was freezing cold, not just for them but us photographers too.
| Camera: | Nikon D3  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 200 f2 + 1.4 conv & SB900 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Running Man |
| Username: | 
Tonyd3 |
| Uploaded: | 25 Jan 2010 - 7:54 PM |
| Tags: | Sports / action |
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great shot. can anyone turn up & take photos there ?
Full of action, excellent comp and the exposure is spot on.
Regds
Phil
That's a shame, just seen on there web site it's not open to the general public.
"Tough Security will keep out public casual visitors.
It is private to Tough Guy™ contestants and personal supporters.
Health and Safety numbers prevent opening to the public."
Looks like the wife will get her beauty sleep after all, have fun Tony & I look forward to seeing your pics next week.
fascinating shot, why on earth does anyone want to do this? but i'm so glad they do!
di
Ok, I'm with Smackmyfish, normally i'd go with the sh*t sandwich, but due to a bread shortage, you'll have to make do with it on toast, sorry.
Compositionally good, nice balance, it's a little tight and compressed but overall works well and has enough to keep your eye interested and moving.
Now, on to the technical side, sorry but this is some poor PS work, there are plenty of Halos from your masking, where you have blurred the background, but not masked you posts effectively are the most obvious.. for example several of your posts have bad halos around them and also weirdly blurred tops and oddly non blurred bit between them where you have added the fire in. Also smoke does not blur out dark objects like you have it here.... light kinda does do that, but not dark objects. On the subject of posts, you have badly masked the lower right post at the bottom (near his right hand) as you can see it and the burning straw merging together when one should obscure the other.
The guys right arm, the back edge of it is blurred when it should not be, again to bad masking most likely, as almost all of him is sharp, and if it was movement on his part the other edge of his arm would be blurred too.
Overall the blurring of the background is badly done in PS ie it's obvious it is done in PS rather than being soft billowy smoke, far too smooth and uniform, no texture or noise to it at all. And finally if you are to add in fire to an image make sure that the one at the back is not seemingly impervious to the wind that is flattening the other two bits of fire. Good effort, but much more work is needed.
OK Mark just for you i have uploaded the jpegs of the combined files, apart from the water in front of the running man.
The background blurring as you will see is done in camera with a 200mm f2 lens which has a VERY shallow depth of feild which does blur the smoke. there is no niose produced on a D3 until you get to around 4800 iso
Cheers, but still very different, you've worked on them heavily once combined to enhance the blur, and it shows. Incidentally if you'd altered your comp of version 2 slightly that would have been bloody brilliant, it's still good as it is though, better than your original post...
Another beauty of an image, would love to try this tough man challenge one day, one of those memories to have with you forever.
A great composition and thanks for sharing the component parts.
The only thing I find distracting is the area over the runners legs/knee. Personally, I would prefer him 'clean' of this. But hey, what do I know.
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