Thanks, Bud, Doc, and Tim! Pretty amazing, isn't it, Tim? When I was younger and doing athletic things, my mouth would always be wide open, looking like a doofus.
The world just got smaller.....one of the guys I work with, I know that his daughters are gymnasts. I sent the link to the photo to him that he in turn sent to his daughters. They replied to him that they were surprised that he didn't recognize her (of course she was upside down)....he told me that your upside down gal above, her name is Karianna Adamson and that she had attended Bowling Green Gymnastics Academy since she was knee high and that his daughter Taylor Grana was a coach and workout partner with Karianna for years.
Nice shot Ron! I really like the lighting and your talented subject.
Question for Ron/ the group: would it be totally verboten to tweak a little free transform to make the limbs/body position more symmetrical? My guess is a fraction of a second either way would have provided that symmetry anyway. I don't do this kind of work so don't know what's acceptable. Just curious...
The only acceptable edit in this photo, in my opinion, would be to clone out distracting objects from the background, if there were any. If she had facial blemishes like a temporary pimple, that might be okay, too. But as an action shot, I think it's not appropriate to change the action. Plus, it's not needed. I shoot dancers and cheerleaders all the time, and perfection in an aerial is damn near impossible to achieve, let alone capture photographically. In this case, I wouldn't change a thing.
Herb wrote:
The world just got smaller.....one of the guys I work with, I know that his daughters are gymnasts. I sent the link to the photo to him that he in turn sent to his daughters. They replied to him that they were surprised that he didn't recognize her (of course she was upside down)....he told me that your upside down gal above, her name is Karianna Adamson and that she had attended Bowling Green Gymnastics Academy since she was knee high and that his daughter Taylor Grana was a coach and workout partner with Karianna for years.
Small world indeed.........
Haha, nice Herb! That indeed is Karianna! And that indeed proves it's a small world! She's phenomenal. When it warms up here in the Chicago area, we're actually going to go outside and do an Urban Portrait Series shoot with her gymnastics moves.
Pretty cool that you shared that and discovered it.
24Peter wrote:
Nice shot Ron! I really like the lighting and your talented subject.
Question for Ron/ the group: would it be totally verboten to tweak a little free transform to make the limbs/body position more symmetrical? My guess is a fraction of a second either way would have provided that symmetry anyway. I don't do this kind of work so don't know what's acceptable. Just curious...
Peter,
I get what Steve said in response to your question, and I'm pretty much 99% in agreement with him. In shooting dancers, I've actually been asked, "Can you turn her foot in a little bit?" It's only happened a couple of times, but it happens. I don't touch those. But on rare occasion, I've done some minor adjustments. I once had an entire group of dancers doing a split leap jump and one dancer had a leg down about 45 degrees. If I can, I'll just crop out that dancer but in this case, she was in the middle. So I adjusted her leg so it was more with the group.
Now... I don't want to start a debate on the ethics of doing that. It was a creative choice that I did one time, and I stand behind that choice. Another person will say that you should never ever ever do that, and that's fine by me. My first 15 years or more of photography was as a PJ shooter for newspapers, so I was never allowed to change anything. Maybe now I like the creative freedom I can sometimes express through my editing? But I rarely do that, really only once or twice, and when you consider how much dancing I shoot, that may give it some perspective.
My point is, I think, that in today's world, the shot we get out of the camera is just the beginning of the art that we create. Some people don't even do any editing at all, others will just tweak the color/exposure and maybe sharpen a bit. And others take it so much further that it becomes art, just take a look at the most popular (and amazing) pictures on 500px. Look at what Lisa does with what she starts with, and how they end up with when they're done. I have a shot from that DePaul cheerleading shoot that has a cheerleader upside down, and looking like she's walking briskly. I want to create a scene where the world is upside down and she's walking in it. But I think part of the world will also be right-side up, and I may have people in the right-side up world reacting to her upside down. I haven't worked out the concept yet, but when I do, I'm going to shoot it and create it. Should be fun!
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