Aaron Gustafson recently completed a series of large-format landscape photographs that he shot while freefalling through the skies of New York and Washington State. He is supposedly the first person to take large-format photographs while skydiving. It was done using a custom designed helmet-camera, which holds a sheet of 4×5 film:
L: 4×5 Helmet Camera (front view) R: 4×5 Helmet Camera (side view)
© Aaron Gustafson
The result:
10,000 ft., Cascade Range, Washington, 2009 [from "Freefall 4x5"]
© Aaron Gustafson
See more from Freefall 4×5 here.
5 Comments
February 8, 2010 – 8:09 pm
Only thing that would be more hard-core would be 8×10
February 8, 2010 – 9:43 pm
Ha, I want to see some 20×24 Polaroids.
February 8, 2010 – 10:06 pm
sick!
February 9, 2010 – 12:39 am
Amazing. This says it all: http://www.aarongustafson.net/fr08.html
February 9, 2010 – 2:58 pm
.And the point is? Other than Aaron claiming that nobody else has dropped from the sky shooting LF photos of the grounds below, this is a little eccentric to say the least. I would think it would be a lot easier to remotely trigger the camera mounted outside of the plane window. BUT hey, let us face it, Aaron looks just great falling from 14,000 feet and with a camera mounted on his head! Concept and successful execution, far more important to know in this case. LONG LIVE Aaron!