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The Agony of Defeat

Tim Dempsey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:38:44 +0000

There is no way to describe how you feel when this happens… he has been working so hard to finish the slalom close to his final race of last season (which he won)… So perhaps this image will help you understand.

Kobe being Kobe: Flickr’s “most interesting” photo of Kobe Bryant

Tim Dempsey — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:46:54 +0000

Kobe-being-Kobe, originally uploaded by TimDD.

This photo has now become "the most interesting" photo on Flickr when you seach for "Kobe Bryant." Amazing. Volume up especially as Kobe recently reached the 20,000 point milestone (before age 30). I heard on SportsCenter this morning that Wilt reached this point in five fewer seasons…

VitalStatistics.info politely asked to use this photo on their site for an article on Kobe. A first for me. Very cool.

Here’s the original photo:

I use LucisArt, www.lucisart.com, the "exposure" filter, on a background copy layer (usually) to get the effect. I also play with HDR, but only when I can get proper multiple exposures, for the reasons you rightly cite.

The Kobe photo is a lot more complicated (and not very well executed, as I look back on it now a few weeks later). In the original, you couldn’t see Kobe without really looking hard — he was lost against the background. (http://flickr.com/photos/ddwise/2058844301/in/photostream/)

So I created a selection of Perkins, Kobe, and Ray Allen — and the Parquet Floor — and reduced the brightness on everything else. It kind of looks like a strobe shot (it wasn’t — all available light and there was plenty of it) — but you can at least see Kobe.

Publicity photos: Progress Sales Kickoff

Tim Dempsey — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:16:17 +0000

Mark Jeffries was the facilitator and MC at Progress Sales kickoff in Miami this week. I caught these during the opening general session. More in this album. Mark’s site

Kobe-being-Kobe

Tim Dempsey — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:17:14 +0000

Kobe-being-Kobe, originally uploaded by TimDD.

Jules and I brought Ian and Eric to the Celtics game last night. I cranked up the 70-200mm at ISO 800, and got a couple of decent shots. Here’s one of the dreaded Kobe — who, it has to be said, can create a shot.

This one actually got a fair amount of processing time. I went through the painstaking process of making Perk, Kobe, and Ray Allen a selection — which required substantial work. But I wanted them to pop out from the background, which while detailed is distracting.

LucisArt provided the usual chewy texture and contrast, without, IMHO, becoming too "CGI."

Iceman 2007: First Wave of Riders

Tim Dempsey — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:40:42 +0000

Ice-Expert-Start, originally uploaded by TimDD.

Browse Iceman Album.

Browse the Faces of Iceman 2007.

The Iceman Cometh Challenge is a great day, with unpredictable weather, and a fantastic athletic event. The race takes place around the first Saturday of November, depending on where Halloween falls that year.

Steve Brown is the Iceman, race director, and an old friend. I have created this catalog of pictures from this year’s race to make the shots available to any of the riders who are interested, and to tell a bit of the story of the race.

Here the Expert Men riders nudge toward the starting line.