The ultimate knife related composition

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While watching DVD's, I love to freeze the action and enjoy the beauty
of quality cinematographic picture composition.
In the movie "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" (winner of 4 Oscars...)
there are many such moments where freezing frames from the fast
action scenes is rewarded with amazing full screen photographic
genius.

Here is one knife (sword) related frame from an amazing fighting
scene. Just look at the picture, frozen in mid action - can it be
any better? Can anyone come up with a more perfect full frame
action knife-related shot?

I am not asking, I am more like stating a fact...... :)

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

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Davd, I love that movie so much...it is really one of my all time favorite movies. Although I don't understand one word they are saying:D;)

Great "snap shot" by the way.

I grew up with Ivanhoe played by Roger Moore no wonder I'm into knives;)

Marcel
 
Marcel54 said:
...it is really one of my all time favorite movies. Although I don't understand one word they are saying:D;)
Marcel
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Marcel, here we have subtitles in Hebrew. In the USA they have subtitles
in English. You would really enjoy it much more watching such a version.....

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
David, I was really kidding...one of my other hobbies is movies and I own about 600 titles on DVD (apart from all the titles on VHS that I'm not able to watch anymore:grumpy:). Almost all bought in the US via DVDEmpire ..... so I have this one with English subtitles.:thumbup:

Marcel
 
Thats some dangerous looking steel. But yeah, that photo follows the rule of thirds, pretty well.
 
I have a DVD of Winged Migration which is a nature documentary filmed by a French organization. It's a beautiful film overall, but I discovered what you did, David. In that film, freezing the action at almost any moment produced a magnificent image. DVD is a great medium.

jonathan brand said:
Thats some dangerous looking steel.
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That woman is far more dangerous than any steel. :D
 
You see the background textures through the blade in that shot. Look at the front of the blade, how you can see the wood grain through the entire blade. Looks like they shot the fighter on a bluescreen, then substituted a different backdrop. Is that good cinematography, or good use of computer technology (or both)?
 
Patapsco Mike said:
You see the background textures through the blade in that shot. Look at the front of the blade, how you can see the wood grain through the entire blade. Looks like they shot the fighter on a bluescreen, then substituted a different backdrop. Is that good cinematography, or good use of computer technology (or both)?
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I think that when using bluescreen techniques, the background does not
appear infront of the object... Here it is a fast moving fight scene so what
you see are probably remains of the previous "frame"......

On the other hand, quite a lot of bluescreen is used in such movies. In this
one the end results are spectacular!

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
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