Judo composites

Mike & I did another session at the Bridgend Judo Club, this time to take some still shots of specific moves, holds and throws for training purposes. This was a different proposition to our previous shoots and between us we took over 2500 shots over the course of an hour or so. That’s a lot of images to go though! Fortunately Will and a couple of the other guys didn’t seem to mind trawling through them all to identify the images that showed the elements they were looking for; whether that be a specific grip or change of balance or other highly technical detail that is lost on non-experts like us. We managed to whittle it down to about 100 images from which to make a final selection from. One of the benefits of doing a session like this was that we were able to take whole sequences of throws and I had fun in creating photo montages of a few moves, which show in a single image the throw from its starting point to end.