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Mephisto


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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: high diving hall, dresden
Galleries: Sports, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 16, 2008

Viewed: 761
Comments: 20
Favorites: 2 (view)

 this guy was crazy, he jumped from 10m tower with twists and flips and stuff and i was already afraid standing there having to look down through the finder...LOL

but huge thanks to the high diving team for letting me take some shots during their training.


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 04/01/2008 05:45:00 PM
Very cool triptych. Love the dark tones and highlights. My fave one is on the left where it seems like he is looking at you.
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 04/01/2008 06:56:00 AM
Grat action here! Wowzers I do prefer the coloured 1, excuse me while I go fave that =]
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 03/13/2008 03:30:08 PM
Fantastic triptych. Thanks for sharing!
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 03/01/2008 10:34:21 AM
Excellent idea and execution my good man :) Love all 3 shots and would like to see the centre image as a standalone shot, excellent capture as he left the board but he'd only get a 9 from me as his hands are not perfectly symetrical ;)
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 02/28/2008 05:19:10 AM
Originally posted by redjulep:
So if he was on the 10m tower, where were YOU??


please look at my previous post down in the comments, that will answer your question. :)
 02/28/2008 05:14:33 AM
So if he was on the 10m tower, where were YOU?? That must have taken some guts to take a photo straight down like that. Love your triptych and processing - with the black water. Excellent.
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 02/26/2008 08:06:58 PM
Very expressive, and different from watching live. Here you feel the concentration and muscles, and the arms really stand out and make me think of our desire to fly. Love the dark water, and how scary it must be for the photographer.
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 02/21/2008 05:27:07 PM
Great job putting these together. What a great perspective you got to take these with. I really love the center shot, perfect timing.
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 02/19/2008 07:52:23 AM
What an interesting design the triptych made. It looks like a synchronized performance. I love the focus with not a grounded body one. Beautiful!
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 02/19/2008 06:07:39 AM
I'd be nervous, too, holding my camera above water like that! Great perspective.
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 02/19/2008 04:17:45 AM
Very cool action shots Christoph. Just curious, were you using an off camera flash? at what speed were you shooting?

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 02/19/2008 12:11:40 AM
This is excellent, the perspective is really what makes it work well.
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 02/18/2008 09:28:47 AM
Great triptych! Well, I suppose everyone needs a "platform" for things we are passionate about! :)
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 02/17/2008 09:24:02 PM
very cool, I love the left one but I think the one on the left is special because he looks as if he's looking straight at you.
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 02/17/2008 05:11:19 AM
Originally posted by Melethia:
If he's jumping from the 10m, where the heck are you?


in the middle one he's "only" jumping from 5m while i'm lying prone on the 10m shooting straight down (i almost wet my pants ;D).
i asked him for that exact pose and it came out exactly how i imaginged it in my head.
actually i got the whole idea for these shots from this picture of mine:

this above shot was more or less a lucky snap shot, but after a while i thought, that it would be cool to have someone in that exact same pose, but from the angle of standing directly behind or above the jumper, and that's how i got the idea.

in the side ones of this tryptich he jumped from the 7,5m tower which was a little to the left, which explains the slightly sloped angle.

edit cus i can't type ;)

Message edited by author 2008-02-18 06:47:58.
 02/16/2008 08:24:26 PM
If he's jumping from the 10m, where the heck are you? And vertigo would be a problem for me with these shots - kinda disorienting. LOVE what you've done with the triptych in B&W - really shows the form very well, including the slight angle on the side shots which balances out nicely. Excellent series.
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 02/16/2008 10:31:42 AM
wow! these are awesome! excellent oppurtunity to show the human form. i like how you can see the details in his muscles in the middle one.

i really like how you set them up together. well done.
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 02/16/2008 07:46:22 AM
Awesome constrast, very fine images.

Message edited by author 2008-02-17 07:16:52.
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 02/16/2008 05:49:22 AM
My dad used to do that in his heyday. I love it.
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 02/16/2008 04:07:03 AM
That center shot totally rocks! Love his pose..all his muscles are tight and fixed for a perfect dive! Excellent!
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