Large Format Skydiving Photographs

[welly]

His other stuff is rubbish

I'm glad someone said this.

[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

[Kirk Gittings]

This is what you get when the first question posed to students is "is it new" rather than "is it any good"-if the "new" is your standard you get half-baked, poorly executed, vaguely clever ideas.

[welly]

And lastly, he says:

"This is what you’d get if you threw Ansel Adams out of a plane."

Really? I doubt that.

[Roger Thoms]

I think I mentioned that I use to be a freefall photographer and the whole point was to photograph other skydivers. If I had shots without skydivers in them they were throw aways. I also have to think some must have already done 4x5 freefall photograph, but maybe not. This is the first time I've heard of it.

Roger

[sidmac]

How about Wet Plate Skydiving. The tent would slow your fall.

[QT Luong]

I think I mentioned that I use to be a freefall photographer and the whole point was to photograph other skydivers. If I had shots without skydivers in them they were throw aways. I also have to think some must have already done 4x5 freefall photograph, but maybe not. This is the first time I've heard of it.

Roger

To jump with others, you need to have more skill and experience than what can be acquired quickly by a MFA student for his thesis project :-)

[Eric James]

The obvious next move is BASE jumping architectural work - "rise and fall".

[Robert Hughes]

The obvious next move is BASE jumping architectural work - "rise and fall".

With oil paints!

[archer]

I once fell off my garage roof while under the dark cloth which acted like a parachute until the ground stopped me and the camera and tripod landed on me and made an exposure of my sweet pea plants. Does that count???
Denise Libby