It’s time for some serious ACTION here on 365! Last year, my husband told me about a trend in photography called Makandosappo (AKA Hadouken), where one figure in the frame poses in a striking pose while the other figure(s) pose in a struck pose (usually midair as if a fireball or some kind of virtual energy wave hit them). If it sounds comic bookish or you are reminded of anime or street fighting scenes or the Dragon Ball franchise, well, you are on the right track! It’s hip, it’s fun, it’s downright addictive!
When my husband told me about Hadouken, I had very little time to even think of doing such a shot, but I was working on a Camera Settings Challenge at the time on AI Servo (yeah, moving targets, perfect!). For Mother’s Day last year, my family agreed to let me try my hand at this style of photography and we had a total blast at our local park for about an hour or so. We laughed the entire time trying to create a dramatic scene where two people flung high in the air as result of a “fire ball” being hurled at them by the central figure (hero/villain—who knows)!
And her is a wiki link about Makandosappo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makankosappo You’ll note on this site, you can see samples with LOTS of participants—you can just go wild with it! It’s summer for me folks, so I’m going to start hadoukening the summer away! Wanna join in?
This challenge will run from Today, to end of June (and anytime for that matter, as I'm not one to do votes, etc.)—that’s three weeks to get you some willing friends/strangers/kids/anyone to have some fun and challenge your photography skills!
Tag your photos 365Hadouken-2 and post them here in this thread as you take them!
I KNOW 365ers could do this one up worldwide—it’s already a huge trend in Japan where it originated, but it’s taking off elsewhere, and why not make it a 365 category? Part of the fun is really seeing what you can do with the idea, so here are my mother’s day samples from last year to help you along with this challenge’s idea:
With my husband in the middle:
With one daughter in the middle:
With the other daughter in the middle:
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