This is one of my very best friends Ian and he is a Tai Chi Master. When I saw this challenge I had this shot in mind. The hard part was getting the time to set it up.
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Interesting shot, would like to see the man be a complete silhouette with only blacks, i think that would add a lot to the picture, nonetheless a very unique shot and one to be proud of
It's a good start. The main problem is that not much of him is visible. If there were more horizon, so we could see all (or at least most) of him, I think you'd have a really good shot.
I thought this was pretty good. Perhaps a little too much empty black space toward the bottom. Cropped a little more to the top might draw me to the subject more.
It's a cool moment, but like others said it just lacks outlines. I can't really distinguish that this is a whole person, your focus is all on the top of the image which makes this a really odd composition and not pleasing to look at. If you would have backed up some more and tried a different angle to get more of the outlines of the person you would have gotten better results I think. Also you don't need to use the bright sun like this to get a silhouette, could just use the warm colored sky, as the sun overexposes the top of the image and makes a ugly mark on the sword.
Very interesting pose and subject to photograph, the sunshine gave a nice highlight to his face...works for me altho if from the waist below was solid black I would've liked more =)
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