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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    I have been investigating 3D photography, I can see there being a demand as the public get 3D aware, it will be the next must have. There are a number of 3D sites around. The standard of content is very poor, the justification of the image appears to entirely that it was shoot in 3D regardless of subject. Isn't that what we have here "Look it's LF" that justifies the image. I bet no way are they sharp, wrong tool for the job.

    Kevin.

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy Moore View Post
    Someone should introduce this guy to the Grafmatic.
    it would really be a drag if it got jammed ...

    Quote Originally Posted by welly View Post
    And lastly, he says:

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

    Really? I doubt that.
    for that to be true, he would have spent the whole drop doing spot meter readings ...

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    No sheet film on that helmet…

    EPIC FAIL!

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    Quote Originally Posted by archer View Post
    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
    I would say no, since the camera made the exposure when it struck you it was no longer in freefall. Next time you fall off the roof with your camera make sure you grab the cable release and trip the shutter before you hit the ground. Don't forget to pull the darkslide either. BTW I sure hope the camera was OK.

    Roger

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    Quote Originally Posted by welly View Post
    And lastly, he says:

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

    Really? I doubt that.
    I figure if you threw AA out of a plane, you'd be guilty of desecrating a corpse, but I don't have an MFA, so what do I know?
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    Roger, you're mean!!!! but yes the camera and tripod survived with nary a scratch but not so my sweet pea vine.
    Denise Libby

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    I can't see anything special about that shot. Looks like a tourist pointed their camera out the airplane window and took a snap. LF - so what?

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    Re: Large Format Skydiving Photographs

    I don't completely understand the general meanness surrounding the replies to this thread-
    ok, so the guy is a nutter, but most of the members here are certifiable, to be using the same sort of gear.
    The only difference is, most of us don't strap it to our heads and jump out of a plane.
    I can see a technical problem with his helmet, it's not faired, so it's going to be buffeted, and there will be vibration,
    but without seeing a large print of this, I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt-
    If anything, it's the helmet that's the wrong tool for the job.

    To compare it to a tourist snap out of an airplane window-
    I wonder have you seen a large format photograph, or if you can imagine the difference?

    Lots of uniformly sharp pictures presented on these pages could have been taken on consumer digital point and shoot, in fact, some of them have been.
    It does require some imagination to apply the qualities of a large format picture to the little jpegs we view onscreen.

    Does the meanness stem from the fact that this guy isn't a member here?
    Not every picture posted here is massively impressive,
    but the fact that we're a community does seem to stem the more acerbic and withering comments-
    perhaps, if everyone said what they really thought, there'd be hardly any pictures posted at all.

    Personally, I find it difficult to be moved by pictures of mountains, whether they're shot from 5 feet or 5000. But some people are, it takes all types-

    Photography is the strangest thing-

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