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Topic: Photo of the week 142 (July 21)
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heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-21-2007 03:31 AM
An intrepid photographer can be seen on the lakebed at Edwards AFB as Challenger returns from the STS-7 mission in June 1983. Ed Hengeveld |
gliderpilotuk Member Posts: 3398 From: London, UK Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-21-2007 03:56 AM
"Health and Safety" Regs wouldn't allow that these days! He's not even wearing a helmet!Paul |
East-Frisian Member Posts: 586 From: Germany Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 07-21-2007 07:16 AM
That looks really great. Dangerous, of course, but I would also guess, windy and loud. That would not have been a job for me.The East-Frisian |
medaris Member Posts: 181 From: United Kingdom Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-21-2007 07:48 AM
Would a helmet do you much good if a Space Shuttle landed on you? Good photo, 'though! |
mdmyer Member Posts: 900 From: Humboldt KS USA Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 07-21-2007 08:29 AM
I am sure the OSHA inspector would have said that the helmet would have made all of the difference, it would have saved the guy's life. Mike |
Lunar rock nut Member Posts: 911 From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A. Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-21-2007 09:58 AM
quote: Originally posted by mdmyer: I am sure the OSHA inspector would have said that the helmet would have made all of the difference, it would have saved the guy's life.
And do not forget the required steel toe shoes plus safety glasses! Great shot.Terry |
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 07-21-2007 01:41 PM
I suspect the photographer is not quite as close to the shuttle as he appears in this photo. If this photo was taken at some distance, the telephoto lens will compress the apparent distances, leading to the illusion that this man is pretty darn close to the landing shuttle. (Note that a similar effect is seen with the launch photo of Apollo 7 that makes it appear it is flying right over the VAB).Having said that, it is clear this photographer is much closer than the person who took this photo! |
art540 Member Posts: 432 From: Orange, California USA Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 07-21-2007 02:20 PM
Perhaps a mild telephoto as the depth of fiield is quite deep from the foreground to the mountains. It is too early in the day for the heat waves to make their appearance. A longer telephoto image is possible if the photographer applies the hyperfocal focusing method. I have an image of a Russian photoographer seemingly only several hundred feet away from an ascending Soyuz launch. |
Cliff Lentz Member Posts: 655 From: Philadelphia, PA USA Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-22-2007 08:29 AM
It reminds me of the days before telephoto lenses, not that I was there! Newspaper photographers would actualy stand on the field of professional baseball games for those amazing shots we now see in the history books and none of them wore helmets. |
ejectr Member Posts: 1751 From: Killingly, CT Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-22-2007 01:57 PM
Heh....baseball game! You should have seen what they did in Vietnam to get some of their pictures! |
Cliff Lentz Member Posts: 655 From: Philadelphia, PA USA Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-22-2007 05:21 PM
ejectr,I have to give you that one! I'm sure they wore helmets, but I'm sure that won't matter all that much. Cliff |
joe bruce Member Posts: 129 From: Spokane, WA U.S.A. Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 07-22-2007 06:48 PM
What an opportunity to stand where that fellow was and to see and hear the shuttle land, hard hat or not hard hat. |