Seattle Times photog tells you how it was done

[Benny Profane]

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.co..._big_jump.html

[ptavv]

Someone PM this to Gunder.

[Junker]

Thanks for posting that.

[Natedogg]

Yeah, thanks. Good read. When I initially saw the photo, I thought "oh, it's a photo of him in a gym superimposed on the skyline." As I was reading, it took until he said he wanted them all to meet at the park to realize that it was a true photo. If someone hadn't read the article, I would think they would think the same as I did--was that his intention?

Also, the screen shots say f/9, but he continually records f/11 in the article. Am I missing something, or just his mistake? (the software also lists a different lens)

[cloudpeak]

It was a great write-up, but I was confused, too. In the first picture, he says he used the Canon EOS 1D Mark III, EF 24-70mm/f2.8 lens @ 42mm, ISO 100, 1/250th sec., f11 w/ strobe. In the rest of the pictures, he says he used Canon EOS 1D Mark III, EF 70-200mm/f2.8 lens @ 70mm, ISO 100, 1/250th sec., f11 w/ strobe. Then, in the screen shots, the lense is 24-70mm at f9, 1/250, ISO 100.

[Bawheed]

"As you can see, the frame is overexposed so I could have proper exposure on his skin tones."

I think he just made a mistake and forgot to type in the correct camera settings for the last photo. The strobe was firing at a constant f11 throughout the shoot and for the last shot, but for the last shot he set his apperture to f9 to overexpose the flash a wee bit to obtain better quality in the skin tones and then pulling the exposure in post. Doing this when shooting in RAW is called Exposing to the right or ETTR, and explained here: http://www.digitalphotopro.com/tech/...g-for-raw.html

[dipstik]

That site in general has a lot of nice photo stuff, thanks for posting.