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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Airy on March 12, 2017, 14:38:22

Title: Low wire performance
Post by: Airy on March 12, 2017, 14:38:22

From a peaceful and mild Saturday in Lille. Df, 300 PF (gawd what a nice lens). FL was a bit too long in general for such subjects; the 70-200 would have been ideal (especially the lighter f/4 one).

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: Akira on March 12, 2017, 16:12:24

#3 looks so surreal that draws my attention the most in this series.  :)

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: Airy on March 12, 2017, 16:16:00

Indeed ; there were 6-7 wires and lots of people silently floating in the air :)

The Lady (in her sixties) was quite passionately taking shots in awkward positions and got very good results using WA settings. The pics with the 300 PF look a bit flat, it is not the perfect lens under such circumstances.

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: armando_m on March 12, 2017, 17:49:33

I had to go back and look closer to #3 , i initially though it was a girl with a red hat :)

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: Akira on March 13, 2017, 00:00:59

Airy, I also wondered what the lady was doing.  :)

A 300mm lens might have been too long in such a "proximity", but the right amount of DOF in #3 separates these two figures from the background nicely and at the same time gives a nice environmental explanation to the image.

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: brent_e on March 13, 2017, 22:58:28

this is called "slacklining"

Popularized by Dean Potter who did a highline without a harness or safety tether to lost arrow spire in Yosemite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqlM7W1HNI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqlM7W1HNI)

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: Airy on March 14, 2017, 00:46:31

*shudder*

Title: Re: Low wire performance
Post by: brent_e on March 15, 2017, 03:00:46

ya....for sure.  Potter (and others) have fallen off while solo highlining, but have managed to catch the line on their way past. 

Thanks for sharing these photos, Airy!