Large Format Skydiving Photographs

[QT Luong]

"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

[Roger Thoms]

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

[bob carnie]

Awesome,
now if Monty M can try this with his 20x24 without a parachute .

[Roger Thoms]

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

[Stephane]

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.

[walter23]

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.

[QT Luong]

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.

The concept was already kind of used by Wolfgang Tillmans in "Concorde".

[welly]

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.

I'm glad someone said this too. I hate to be overly critical of other photographers when my photography isn't outstanding, but some of his sets (Atlas/Mountain man/moments of great significance in particular) aren't that clever, aren't technically very good and aren't artistically very good either (IMHO, of course).

He's studying or has studied a Master of Fine Arts. Is that all it takes? Because I'll head out tonight and take photos of solitary people in car parks with a fuji disposable camera if so. And I'm not buying the "he did it first". Some things just shouldn't be done.

Rant over

[Ash]

His other stuff is rubbish

[welly]

His other stuff is rubbish

I'm glad someone said this.