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teemupoika — Dancer in the dark
Published: 2006-01-31 14:55:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1510; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 103
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Istanbul, Turkey.We experienced a show where Dervish-monks (somethinglikethat) do a traditional spinning-thing and so achieve some higher level of awareness.
Anyway, it was interesting to see how intensively they concentrated on their seremony, and they spinned well too.
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Lovely photo. I saw them several times, the last time at the Egyptian Academy in Rome.
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Wow!, it's hard to believe that it's a snapshot, it looks like a studio work. Congratulations
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mmm nice photo,u visited Istanbul?
we call it "semazen" in Turkish...
I liked it very much,great shot and light is good,too
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Thanks!
Yeah, I visited Istanbul for a week last autumn. I liked it a lot
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beautiful elegance and lighting of the picture. marvelously done
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Beautiful. You captured him so well. I've been there too and I'm glad you took a picture of a dervish dressed in white.
The coloured dresses are just for tourists!
In London there is a place where you can study the Turning (as it's called) but it's very early in the morning (and anyway I don't live there anymore).
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Studying the Turning sounds interesting
The place where I saw that dervish was full of tourists though, but well, great that it was somewhat original stuff anyway 
I did't actually see any coloured desvishes.
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I always love these Dervish shows!! They do this spinning for hours!! It's a wonderful capture!! Good job!
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Supposingly behind his black belt
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wow - fantastic capture!!
can you give the cemera setting? f-stop, shutter speed, ISO? and the type of cam?
thanks and bravo!
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Thank you my friend!
Settings:
Canon EOS350D
Canon 50mm
f/1.8
ISO something around 200-800, can't remember..
No idea about shutter speed either. I had the camera on automatic, so I only adjusted the aperture and let camera select shutter speed.
Then I tweaked ISO as long as the machine gave me reasonable shutter speed.
Propably it had to be something like 1/100 because the monk was spinning quite fast.
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if you have the original and right click on it, then click on properties, it will tell you all that info.
and thanks for supplying this much. i'm trying to learn all i can about taking action shots
such as this one. especially indoor/lowlight.
so i really appreciate when people share this kind of knowledge.
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kompozisyon güzel olmus.contrast ve kompozisyon cok yakısmıs.tebrik ederim
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Despite the fact I shooted several pics in Turkey, I unfortunately couldn't learn the language.. English?
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Ui Ui Ui. Tiukkaa, pienellä viilauksella DD-matskua!!
Valo, asettelu yms. erittäin onnistunu, meh so jealous.
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Rokrok!
..ja favia pukkaa, TACK!
Tuolla takana olevia pöytiä piti vähän häivytellä, mut ne tarvis ehk viel pikku hienosäätöä jollain kikka kuutosella. Jos joskus opettelis sen maskihomman yms. ni vois helpottua toi nysvääminen..
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very excellent! (bad grammer....) how did you get that picture the lighting looks like it would be hard to snap a picture that turned out as well as it did.
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Thanks!
Well, it was really dark there, only a well-located spotlight gave light towards the dancer, so I was able to take a sharp pic.
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oh, okay. my P.O.S. camera prolly wouldnt have been able to pull that off! lol
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