Kobe being Kobe: Kobe Bryant

10,000 Views -- December 7, 2008. Wow! and thanks to all my Flickr contacts and friends who have made this first year on Flickr such fun.

Even Ray Allen has to admire him when Kobe gets in the zone... which it has to be said he didn't REALLY do last night, but the man can shoot.

Far and away my most popular image on Flickr: Kobe fans are encouraged to go to Imagekind to buy a print.

Gorgeous On Black

My PhoBlo.

After a number of requests, I have generated a brief processing tutorial on my photography blog, www.synopshots.com. I would really love to receive feedback on that here, there or by FlickrMail!

Thanks to all of you for your feedback and support on this fantastic journey in imagemaking!

Blake inquired about the processing:

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.

Thanks for asking!