-=> Larry Bolch said to Hap Newsom on 04-15-98  17:58:
 LB> On the other hand, I once did a portrait of Joe Louis, the boxer,
 LB> using a 50mm lens on an RB67. I had him extend his famous fist
 LB> toward the lens until it filled the bottom half of the frame.
 LB> His head was still close enough to  the centre that there was no
 LB> objectionable foreshortening.
 LB> I used a similar technique to do a shot on a karate instructor,
 LB> who was just in process of opening an new school. He did a
 LB> series of choreographed movements - something like a 'kata' IIRC,
 LB> (Karen?) 
 
 Yes, kata is the correct term.
 I spent yesteday at an 8 hour train-a-thon.  My husband taught 3
 seminars during that time while I watched, took photos, and visited
 with the many people I have come to know over the years.  A picture I
 took at this same event 2 years ago has been make into a plaque and hangs
 at the federation headquarters in Ottawa.  The person who puts on this
 event was quite pleased to see I had come again, with camera attached  :)
 - ending in a power blow aimed just short of the bottom
 LB> of the lens shade on the Brooks. All the energy gathered during
 LB> the moves that lead up to the blow was released into the shot.
 LB> The reporter complimented that I only flinched AFTER the exposure!
Good for you.  It just goes to show that you were focused on what YOU
were doing.  One black belt I know used to deliver a power punch to my
face and stop within a hare's breath of my nose.  I didn't flinch either.
He pointed that out to his wife and asked her why it was that I trusted him
more than she did  :>
... When in doubt, just howl at the moon.
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