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Researching your talent's sport atmosphere

Researching your talent's sport atmosphere - Photoshop Tutorial

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Researching your talent's sport atmosphere

- When you're photographing a sport, it's extremely important that you research your client's atmosphere. A good example would be what type of uniforms they wear or what type of equipment they use. Now, I was photographing a young child with fencing. It was fortunate that I knew the family very well. I knew very little about fencing. On set, they way he was positioned it looked awesome. He told me that the patch on his left arm was the patch from his school. So I said, "Take the foil out of your right hand "and put it into your left and hold it nice and tight." And he looked at me and said, "Mr. Vadeli, I'm right-handed." And I said, "That's okay, it doesn't matter. "It's just for the shot. "Switch it over." He said, "Um, you don't understand" "I'm right-handed." And I looked at his mother and the mother smiled and said "The sword is either for a left-handed person, "or for a right-handed person. "He can't switch it back and forth." Now with that knowledge, I had him turn a certain…

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