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dlish · 07-26-2010, 12:37 AM

at first i thought it was a bunch of guys jumping in tandem for the camera, or base jumpers, and then my attention took me further towards the water and i was trying to work out how they all jump together without jumping on each other... and then it clicked... just like the guys ribs. It was just one guy jumping.

this pic is truely amazing. the guy who took the pic says he doesnt know who the jumper is, but i dont believe it. The jumper lived another day, but damn thats so cool!

i guess its this sort of coverage that would encourage tombstoning, but from a photography point of view, its truely a great piece of work. you can see from the distance between each shot the acceleration of the jumper before he hurtled into the water.

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here's the story if anyone is interested

Man photographed in 30m tombstoning plunge | News.com.au

Jetée · 01-15-2011, 05:49 PM

You see this sort of activity ~~condoned~~ encouraged countless times in films, novels and cartoons, where the locale is some sort of island paradise/isolationism. The exhilaritive thrill of leaping off a sheer cliff face, even in one's vicarious mind, seems to be ageless.

Thanks for sharing, dlish. The article didn't state, but what would you guess is the photographic interval of capture for the man diving? It has to be less than a second in-between: it's even below half-a-second, perhaps between .15 and .4 seconds in-between each phase of the falling man, though there is no evidence that each stage is a perfectly-timed elapse period. The photographer could have post-processed just the ten "best" dots of the plummet. Cool photo, but the details of it would have made it great.

Confederate · 01-25-2011, 06:30 AM

I know there are programs that do this for you. When he jumps just hold down the shutter and take as many photos as possible. You then layer the images on top of each other. Kind of like an HDR and you keep the natural color levels.

07-26-2010, 12:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	Tombstoner! at first i thought it was a bunch of guys jumping in tandem for the camera, or base jumpers, and then my attention took me further towards the water and i was trying to work out how they all jump together without jumping on each other... and then it clicked... just like the guys ribs. It was just one guy jumping. this pic is truely amazing. the guy who took the pic says he doesnt know who the jumper is, but i dont believe it. The jumper lived another day, but damn thats so cool! i guess its this sort of coverage that would encourage tombstoning, but from a photography point of view, its truely a great piece of work. you can see from the distance between each shot the acceleration of the jumper before he hurtled into the water. ---------- Post added at 06:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:33 PM ---------- here's the story if anyone is interested Man photographed in 30m tombstoning plunge \| News.com.au __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

01-15-2011, 05:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	You see this sort of activity ~~condoned~~ encouraged countless times in films, novels and cartoons, where the locale is some sort of island paradise/isolationism. The exhilaritive thrill of leaping off a sheer cliff face, even in one's vicarious mind, seems to be ageless. Thanks for sharing, dlish. The article didn't state, but what would you guess is the photographic interval of capture for the man diving? It has to be less than a second in-between: it's even below half-a-second, perhaps between .15 and .4 seconds in-between each phase of the falling man, though there is no evidence that each stage is a perfectly-timed elapse period. The photographer could have post-processed just the ten "best" dots of the plummet. Cool photo, but the details of it would have made it great. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi

01-25-2011, 06:30 AM	#3 (permalink)
Confederate Death Leprechaun Location: College Station, TX	I know there are programs that do this for you. When he jumps just hold down the shutter and take as many photos as possible. You then layer the images on top of each other. Kind of like an HDR and you keep the natural color levels.