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gyaban β€” Underwater Hurdling

Published: 2013-03-22 14:56:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 5606; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 0
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All the photos and editing by me.

This one is mostly for fun! Why lose your time with usual and boring sports when you could do silly and crazy ones?

- All the fishes and the turtle were photographed at the Paris Tropical Aquarium. As usual with such places, high ISO settings are required!
- I shot some water texture at the river next to my house.
- The ground was also photographed in the same area.
- I bought some cheap fins and diving mask, and posed with them in my home studio: let me tell you that jumping decently with these things is hard, haha! Way too hard for me anyway. I had to shoot the lower part of the body separately (I hang myself to a beam with my arms), then used another photo of the upper part of my body to create the composite. The lighting setup was prepared with the final image in mind: 2 softboxes from behind/above the model, then a third frontal strobe for some filling.
- My wife kindly built a hurdle out of wood, and painted it.
- The bubbles were photographed at home, in a small aquarium that I put in my studio.

Thanks for watching!
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Comments: 23

Xhodocto385 [2017-01-03 02:18:21 +0000 UTC]

that is badass, i hope to see more of you with these crazy underwater sports with your snorkel.

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Samijabrothers [2015-06-19 22:32:12 +0000 UTC]

You Sir a sport champion!

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maxsky12 [2013-05-20 19:24:41 +0000 UTC]

you had good idea here nice work,

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Gwangelinhael [2013-04-24 05:39:15 +0000 UTC]

this is great and funny
very good picture

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DsChrystian [2013-04-05 00:34:15 +0000 UTC]

excelente

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MadeByRona [2013-03-24 08:45:03 +0000 UTC]

Very creative work!

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MadeByRona In reply to MadeByRona [2013-03-24 09:18:22 +0000 UTC]

Your work is featured in my journal; [link]

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Cinnamoncandy [2013-03-24 04:29:54 +0000 UTC]

You have been featured. [link]

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Urus-28 [2013-03-23 11:22:30 +0000 UTC]

Ca me fait penser à certains moments de mon boulot : beaucoup d'effort pour quelque chose de complètement absurde...
Très belle image en tout cas

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gyaban In reply to Urus-28 [2013-03-23 16:15:32 +0000 UTC]

Je crois qu'on est tous dans le mΓͺme cas, pour ce qui est de l'absurditΓ© de certains aspects de nos vies...
Quoi qu'il en soit, merci beaucoup pour le compliment !

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Urus-28 In reply to gyaban [2013-03-26 22:40:08 +0000 UTC]

Oui tout Γ  fait d'accord, nous faisons tous face Γ  des situations absurdes par moment

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In2umniaKillH3r [2013-03-22 19:21:27 +0000 UTC]

LMAO, that's awesome.

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gyaban In reply to In2umniaKillH3r [2013-03-22 20:44:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot Very glad you liked it!

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In2umniaKillH3r In reply to gyaban [2013-03-23 04:45:17 +0000 UTC]

No problem.

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nudagimo [2013-03-22 18:21:25 +0000 UTC]

This is a stunning manip and a wonderful idea!

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gyaban In reply to nudagimo [2013-03-22 20:45:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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nudagimo In reply to gyaban [2013-03-23 18:05:22 +0000 UTC]

You are very welcome!

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Art-Kombinat [2013-03-22 16:22:50 +0000 UTC]

... haha, what a funny idea, and a geat manipulation ...

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gyaban In reply to Art-Kombinat [2013-03-22 20:45:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot, very happy you liked it

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DraakeT [2013-03-22 15:22:20 +0000 UTC]

Hi Christophe,
buahahha u are crazy !!!! im speachless!! Ur work are important to understand a big rule: the use of excellent photos is so important!! Without excellent photos and relative excellent ideas, technic is nothing!
In ur case u got an incredible technic too and for this reason, these works are all impressive always!

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gyaban In reply to DraakeT [2013-03-22 20:49:29 +0000 UTC]

Hi Luke,
Thank you so very much for your kind words Much appreciated. You are right, using appropriate photos helps a lot to obtain a convincing result. Also, I would not want to use anyone else's photos, the resulting image would not really feel "mine", if that makes sense. Controlling the whole creation process is important to me. Maybe I'm weird Thanks a lot again!
Ciao,
Christophe

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Pronus [2013-03-22 15:01:42 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work and really interesting to read through your work process.

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gyaban In reply to Pronus [2013-03-22 20:46:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. The creation process is so entertaining, I can't resist sharing it. Very glad you liked my work

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