Large Format Skydiving Photographs
"Aaron Gustafson, a Seattle-based artist, has become the first person to ever shoot large format photographs while skydiving. Using a custom large format helmet camera he designed himself, Gustafson made one large format photograph on each jump."
http://www.petapixel.com/2010/02/09/...g-photographs/
http://ow.ly/15zkH
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Nice work, I really like his helmet and camera setup, very clean. In a former life I did freefall photography and video. Lots of fun.
Roger
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Awesome,
now if Monty M can try this with his 20x24 without a parachute .
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Have to disagree there.
Promotional stunt, nothing more.
Searched for his name, and it looks like all his other photos are shot free falling: tilting horizon, strange compositions (like a 1st year student in fine art), his portraits are... I should stop right here coz I could go on.
Sorry to sound nasty, but any concept lacking aesthetics wont not turn me on, especially when justified by things like : "This is what you’d get if you threw Ansel Adams out of a plane" or "It’s a hybrid of new and old, calm and chaos". Educated fine artists miss the point too often by trying to be too clever.
My own opinion, by the way.
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Originally Posted by
bob carnie
Awesome,
now if Monty M can try this with his 20x24 without a parachute .
Hey anything is possible right. For inspiration here is a link to skydiving with an IMAX camera. http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/art...all_page1.html I hope this is appropiate, seems like IMAX is the equivalent of large format in cinematography.
I would recommend that Monty used a parachute though. Maybe I'm missing some inside joke.
Roger
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His other stuff is rubbish
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Someone should introduce this guy to the Grafmatic.
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Stephane
Educated fine artists miss the point too often by trying to be too clever.
Check out his "guide to birds of the pacific northwest" or whatever, for a perfect example of this. Really bad photography, attempted "clever" concept. Doesn't work for me.
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What I'd really like to see is large format freefall photographs of other skydivers, his shots could have been taken from an airplane.
Roger
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Another MFA art f@g.
It's like those hacks who go around with portfolios of stupid shots and then they claim they are art because they used a large format camera instead of a Rebel. Like that Gigapixel crap.