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Today is the day for 34th Kio-sen chellenger determining match between Kimura Kazuki(8 dan) vs Kubo Toshiaki(8 dan). As a result of Furigoma, Kubo became a Sente Player. It started at 10:00 in Tokyo Shogi Kaikan. The opening strategy is Sente's gokigen Nakabisha. The thinking time per player is 4 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it.
Posted by takodori on December 26, 2008 in Professional games(Non-title matches) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Today is the day for a game of 2nd round for 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open(Challenger deciding knokout tournament) between Saida Haruko(Joryu 4 dan) and Iwane Shinobu(Joryu sho dan) at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan of JSA. It started at 10:00 am. As a result of Furigoma, Iwane became Sente player.
The thinking time per player is 3 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. The game is expected to end around 5:00pm today.
Here it is. It's originally published as the toppage column of Yomiuri Shimbun(Japanese edition) and seems translated into English on Daily Yomiuri on December 24.
According to 2channel, the biggest BBS in Japan, someone insisted the most funniest game is the one which was played between Habu Yoshiharu and Shima Akira in Shinjino-sen on August 17, 1987. The position at the 42nd move is completely the same as that at 60th move. What made this happen? Please replay either of the links below. Habu was Sente and Shima won it. I could not help smiling to replay it.
Posted by takodori on December 23, 2008 in Professional games(Non-title matches) | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Today is the day for 19th One-Day tournament. The thinking time is 20 minutes and less than 30 seconds after consuming it.
Funato Yoko(Joryu 2 dan, sente) vs Shimai Saori(Joryu sho dan ) --- won by Funato, I'd like to recommend to replay it.
Posted by takodori on December 23, 2008 in Professional games(Non-title matches) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Today is the day for a game of 2nd round for 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open(Challenger deciding knokout tournament) between Nakai Hiroe(Joryu 6 dan) and Ueda Hatsumi(Joryu 2 dan) at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan of JSA. It started at 10:00 am. As a result of Furigoma, Ueda became Sente player.
Posted by takodori on December 22, 2008 in Professional games(Non-title matches) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
good to see th HFT take off at X church used to be just me and Andy (RIP) plus 1 who did the CSFTA winter HFT league.
Nice photos. I think the best use of the TS was on the photo of Matt to be honest, not a fan of the last one, it just looks...odd. Or maybe that's just Dean. The one of Ben is nice though, lovely colouring on the stock.
Ooo, just thought, have you got a mirror lens? You could use the bokeh on that for an artistic effect if you get the background right. Bob Martin uses mirror lenses to good effect in some of his photos, in the sports portfolio, of Tiger Woods, that's quite pretty.
The second one, of the golfer, in the graphic portfolio is my favourite I think, I love the way you get the classic mirror lens blur off the highlights on the water, and I think the grain just sets the image off.
i think it's too long with the 1.4x on up close, and HFT'ers are harder to shoot than FT'ers because they're either in and out really quick or faffing around and moving a lot, with a shallow depth of field and manual focus on a fixed focal it makes up for fast work. Think i got the answer, which is to stick without the 1.4x on tight packed courses.
I can't link directly to the photos, but in that previous link, have a look at the sports and graphic portfolios. The one of Tiger is in the sports (5th pic), and the silhouetted golfer in the graphic one (2nd pic). You just have to get the background right with mirror lenses, otherwise the bokeh can be too distracting and frankly, a bit minging. The only other real problem with them is that they are a fixed aperture due to the design. (Which also gives the ring shaped blur) But it does allow for long focal lengths is silly short lenses. (Think 500mm+ in something not alot longer than my 75-300 all the way out. )
I think that would be a solution yeah, and cart around that second body with a different lens for a bit of variety.
Have you looked at the Cokin/Lee filters? If you where to keep a spare body with say, an 85mm/135mm prime and a centre spot or diffuser filter on it you could get some really nice arty portraits while you're at it.
i think the cat lens thing is like a lot of photo tricks, when used to great effect it's great, but too many times and it doesn't wash...
i'm still trying to find out what gives the huge diffraction you see on some video work, it's almost like a prism is rotated in front of the lens... you get a shallow depth of field with some massive fringing... think cokin do something like that, but not sure if that's the trick...
nah, think a plane of focus being a sheet of paper that normally you see face on... the tilt turns that... in this case i laid it as flat as i could, so it's like a thin layer of fog over the ground, everything above and below is out, instead of the usual behind/in front.
Have a look at that. Plastic lenses will give you massive diffraction, you could try using a cheap disposable? They can give interesting effects due to the frankly crap lenses and you can get some really nice photos with them.
The Canon 50mm 1.8 will give you a hell of alot of chromatic aberration if you get a bad one and open it right up, but most of them are pretty good for the price to be honest.
i tried a uncoated lens in front of the zoom... the bloody canon coatings defeated so much of the problems it didn't look quite so special, more like just a bad shot.
so i then tried no lens, just holding the magnifier near the shutter, which worked, but it's not really the setup for outdoors