I captured my friend transiting the sun during a skydive

https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1989027887689998561/photo/1

by bpierre • 8 months ago

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https://nitter.net/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1989027887689998561...

kridsdale1• 8 months ago

What an achievement.

4ndrewl• 8 months ago

Incredible.

tetris112• 8 months ago

https://nitter.net/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1989027887689998561...

Atheros4• 8 months ago

So.. it's a composite and .. "transiting" isn't quite accurate either. hmmm :-(

snypher• 8 months ago

The sun in the background was sharpened via a stacked image but the image is 100% real and authentically captured in camera (see the video in the OP reply for real time view). Not a composite!

He just kept shooting the sun after the jumper cleared, and stacked up those shots. I think saying it's a 'composite' devalues the image and just makes it seem like he cut out the jumper and pasted on to the sun.

Atheros4• 8 months ago

It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction without a difference.

If his images were real they would have shown the powered paraglider too. The images are a composite of photos that he took of the sun and a frame from the video that he took of the jumper.

Is it pretty? Certainly! It's art! But it's 'photography' the same way the 'So Yummy' YouTube channel is cooking.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abePkXncCM

JohnnyLarue• 8 months ago

This is like saying long exposures don't count because they're composite images

Atheros4• 8 months ago

That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?

bangaladore• 8 months ago

I disagree.

All photos have an exposure time; that's an inherent property of them (think film). Compositing images digitally on top one another is not an inherent property of photos.

You can double expose film, and I think that's a finer line, but I think the distinction most people care about is really analog vs digital.

tanseydavid• 8 months ago

Love it. The concept and the execution. Just bought one for my new place.

I captured my friend transiting the sun during a skydive

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