WOW-simply INCREDIBLE TIMING!!!! Just simply outstanding "timing shots"! You really captured some excellent MMA shots with split-second timing...hard to know which is the best shot...the guy getting kicked in the, uhmm,'cup' is good...the women's shot with the nose deforming on that left jab is super-duper, the first kick shot is awfully good too, and that right hand body punch...wow...all just great timing shots!
The skin tones are a bit ruddy, but with the crap lighting some places have, well...whatever...most of these would look equally good, or better, converted to gritty B&W!
The lighting... yeah, not the best situation. I was shooting at ISO 6400, and not only was I under mixed tungsten/fluorescent lights, one of the fluorescent fixtures was on as often as it was off, further complicating the situation as though the cycling lights in the background weren't enough. Never the less, it was a fun shoot.
Yes, regardless of the rules and padding "grapes" will get "juiced" from time to time. He was a big boy about it though, and didn't require a time out.