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Konica Minolta Users | all galleries >> KM Challenges Hall of Fame >> HOF C16 to C20 > 5th: It takes two to tango by Claudio Gatti
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16-OCT-2004 Claudio Gatti

5th: It takes two to tango by Claudio Gatti

Minolta DiMAGE A1
1/50s f/6.3 at 30.5mm iso100 with Flash full exif

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Konica Minolta Users24-Oct-2004 18:54
g'day claudio - wonderfully conceived and executed !! superb image. thanx adrianox
Claudio Gatti19-Oct-2004 16:09
Hi Tom,

thanks for the comments. As a good geek, I'm a sucker for these types of unusual toys and can hardly resist buying them all when I find them!. So far they have just been sitting on the top of my monitor or on my shelfs, but now with these Challenges they are getting a new life ;-).

Once I decided to contrast the mechanical motion with the "dance lesson" steps , the material and title came easy. I did a search on the Web and found a few example diagrams. I downloaded several, picked my favorites, combined/colored then in Photoshop, scale them to the proper size and printed the result on Epson Matte Paper Heavyweight. I then taped the diagrams on a white foam core board. A1 was on a heavy tripod, with remote release and prefocused on the area. I used an incandescent lamp on the side and the 5600 flash bounced off another foam core board. The most challenging thing was getting Katita to stay in the area I wanted!

Claudio
Tom19-Oct-2004 15:33
Very cool. Just visited their website, had no idea toys like this existed. Very creative toy as well as image. I just can't image how you got the background to look so perfect with the images.
Guest 19-Oct-2004 15:21
Great idea Claudio and well executed. I like this one very much and it is perfect for the theme. Cheers, John
Konica Minolta Users18-Oct-2004 14:29
Fun! Great subject. One could play with many a set-up with this gizmo. Lot's of motion, Very fast and confused looking. As though not sure which foot to put forward next. Has a nice abstract quality to the comp also. Another thoughtfull, fun set-up Mr. G. Like your B&G elevator also. Looking forward to next presentations. - JJ
Guest 18-Oct-2004 11:42
I looked at that movie and your pic really illustrates the motion very well. The background is well chosen also.

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Claudio Gatti18-Oct-2004 01:30
Hi Niamh, glad you like it.

It's done with multiple exposures while in motion.

It took quite a few tries to get the effect I wanted. Katita The Hero (that's the name of the windup toy, which has an interesting story behind it -http://www.kikkerland.com/ ) moves very fast! (see movie on the site). I also did quite a few long shutter takes, and tried also multiflash but in the end I preferred this type of image by far.

Claudio
Konica Minolta Users17-Oct-2004 21:05
very nice shot claudio but i am very curious - how did you get the blur effect? is this a
composite or did you photograph it moving?

niamh
Konica Minolta Users17-Oct-2004 03:55
The tango machine, well captured, perfect white background contrasting with rest.
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