Photographing people on the edge of a skyscraper in San Francisco
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#2I get the chills just looking at those photos, no way you could get me within 20ft of that ledge. Really cool pictures though, congrats on pulling it off.
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#3What it is about our minds that make it so easy to imagine being up there, on the ledge, looking down, maybe with one foot over... and my palms are sweating heavily already.
It's a bit like having a child; I now spend nights worrying about the most ridiculous events that could happen to my daughter.
Why do our brains like to torture us like this?
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#4Reminds me of Li Wei's famous skyscraper photo sessions [1] in which the artist is seen being kicked off the top and suspended outside a window, amongst other similarly daring photographs. Only a minimal use of post-processing to simply remove the fine wires attached.
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#5Can't help but think of this guy:
http://humzadeas.tumblr.com/image/105666488345 https://vimeo.com/104818943
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#6The final pictures are so heavily over-produced that they look incredibly fake-- which is a shame and leaves me totally baffled. It looks like someone literally painted the figure on the picture.
The only time anxiety kicked in was the picture of the whole team posing for a shot at the corner.
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#7What it is about our minds that make it so easy to imagine being up there, on the ledge, looking down, maybe with one foot over... and my palms are sweating heavily already. It's a bit like having a child; I now spend nights worrying about the most ridiculous events that could happen to my daughter. Why do our brains like to torture us like this?
Ah but standing there on that ledge and looking down knowing that the slightest mis-step could mean the end, where none of your worries past or future matter except the present... That feeling is so magical <3 !
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#8That rigging looked outrageous. All I saw was one guy holding onto the models. If a model slipped and fell, that guy won't have stood a chance in holding them back.
Hopefully the person was themselves hooked into the roof, and the rigging was hooked into the roof, with him acting on belay. But I certainly didn't see that.
I'm so glad nothing bad happened, but this seemed irresponsible from a safety and technical standpoint.
(I mean even the camera rig looked flimsy.)
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#9If anyone has access to cranes in san francisco, I'd love to do a round #2 and take things even further haha :)
This rooftop took quite a bit of scouting around to get but man was it worth it. Love SFO, wish I could visit again!
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#10That rigging looked outrageous. All I saw was one guy holding onto the models. If a model slipped and fell, that guy won't have stood a chance in holding them back. Hopefully the person was themselves hooked into the roof, and the rigging was hooked into the roof, with him acting on belay. But I certainly didn't see that. I'm so glad nothing bad happened, but this seemed irresponsible from a safety and technical stan…
Everything was doubly tied down, don't worry :) The person holding was there simply to maintain tension the entire way as the models walked from the side to the edge. As for the camera, the flex comes from the metal itself but it was also extra secured with straps in the event that anything fell loose.