Got My Jump Shot!

I got my jump shot under a main road on a rainy Saturday night :)

Thanks to Al (@brizmako), Ollie, and Sheridan (@shezza), I finally got the jumping selfie. This is a single exposure, Ollie did the light painting on the floor and Al manually triggered the flash on the count of 3.

Unfortunately I'm way too old for this, and it was wet and muddy and stupidly dark in there. I slipped the first time, which was not-much-fun. Then we had trouble with the light at the end of the tunnel swamping the flashed shot, then we discovered obscene graffiti and had to re-frame a bit, but it all came together for this one.

[Sarah McDonald]

that's fabulous! And so much hard work - well done! Although a shame we didn't get to see the falling down one :P

[Mick Porter]

@saranna Thanks Sarah - no, the falling down one really hurt! I was walking around the end of the tunnel with intense pain in the muscles in my upper arms going "ouch ouch owwww ouch" for a while. Fortunately too dark for anyone else to see though.

[Meghan Holliday]

that's AWESOME!!!!! wow!!

[Mick Porter]

@shotsbymeg Thanks Meghan, fun night :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

AWESOME shot, Mick!! You do realise you play in the drains we get warned to stay out of lol. Hope you haven't hurt yourself too badly, sounds ouchie!!

[Mick Porter]

@ozziehoffy Thanks Cassandra. Yeah, I know, stay out of the drains :) This one was pretty safe I reckon.

[Cromwell]

So much to love here. One of the more original selfies I've seen. Kudos for capturing yourself in that low light without getting a strobe blur. I'm curious about the squiggly blue lines on the floor. Was that grafitti? A weird lighting effect? Something you added during prossessing? It's very cool whatever it is. FAVed!!

[Howard Steele]

very col jump shot

[Shirley Jess]

This exudes fun and a lot of energy! Great capture!

[Shanne]

that's amazing - I tried so hard to do something like this - yours is amazing and such fun - fav

[Mike Warren]

Cool action shot. Amazing effect for such a long exposure.

[Paula]

Great shot!

[Alison Tomlin]

Well done you. Best theme entry I've seen so far.

[Monika]

Aha Excellent Mick.... You nailed it. The light painting is fantastic. Love it Fav!

[Rob]

Great shot! Lots of great elements here, well done! Great theme entry!

[Mick Porter]

@cromwell Thanks Cromwell, the blue lines are done with blue LED's, this was a single long-exposure shot, nothing added in PP. Glad you liked it :)

[Mick Porter]

@steeler @shirljess Thanks Howard and Shirley

[Mick Porter]

@shanne Thanks for the fav Shanne. It was your crazy idea that I do a jump shot

[Mick Porter]

@mwarren365 @paulavdmerwe @fueast Thanks Mike, Paul, and Alison. As you can probably tell, this was fun to do :)

[Mick Porter]

@monika64 Thanks for the fav Monika!

[Mick Porter]

@jdr4690 Thanks very much Rob

[Sharon Lee]

WOW… a jumping selfie, this should be in the money for a win Mick… it has my vote.

[Mick Porter]

Cheers Sharon :)

[Joanne]

So the dog is out of the question.? Great shot...so creative..love the light painting on the floor. Good job to the people that helped you. :)

[Mick Porter]

@veg66 The dog is right out of the question, I freaked her out completely and had to give up.

[Abhijit]

very cool. been wanting to this stuff for a while. haven't had the chance yet

[Mick Porter]

@abhijit Thanks - yes, it's quite a fun form of photography

[Dana]

Wow - great effort Mick !! Love the light painting on the floor !!

[Mick Porter]

@danacarruthers Thanks Dana :)

[Alan Warren]

WOOHOO! It came out of the camera as excellently as it had burned into my retinas! Tunza fun, MIck, glad you made it through the night alive-ish too :)

@saranna we're all sorry we couldn't see the Mick-splat...it sounded AWESOME and painful =]

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako I didn't have much in the way of retinas left either - great flash work man! My arms recovered overnight so all good, lots of fun ::

[Alan Warren]

@pizzaboy I guess I'm a born flasher ;o)

[Megan Richardson]

awesome, excellent collaboration, impressive effort by each of you, great jump, wonderful light painting

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako I won't tell anyone

[Mick Porter]

@lbmcshutter Thanks Megan :)

[Sheridan Tighe]

That does look like it was a bit of fun :-)

[Mick Porter]

@shezza You bet!

[Sheridan Tighe]

http://365project.org/shezza/365/2012-04-14 - from my angle.

[Sue Wilde]

This is fantastic...well done to the three of you.

[Peter de Graaff]

Great jump in tunnel

[Mick Porter]

@swilde @peterdegraaff Thanks Sue and Peter, glad my late night stupidity is bringing a smile to some :)

[Mick Porter]

@shezza Great stuff, never seen a "making of" here before!

[Amanda Thepanda]

amazing - I need to see a set up of this because I just can't wrap my head around it.

[Mick Porter]

@corymbia Not really much to it - tunnel was very dark. Open the shutter, Ollie paints the blue steal on the floor while walking backwards down the tunnel, then he gets out of the frame and I go into the tunnel and rub and jump on count of 3 when Al fires the flash. Then I close the shutter and it's all done in just over 1 minute.

[Mick Porter]

@corymbia "blue streak", this had nothing to do with zoolander!

[Mick Porter]

@pizzaboy And "run", not "rub" - using a phone not so accurate here :)

[Mick Porter]

@corymbia ok, I'm over this, now I'm replying to myself!

[Elizabeth]

This is freaking awesome!!! - And I love the silly look of joy on your face. FAV. Perfect for the theme! Saw this on popular page.

[MaryBeth Dailey]

Fav! Wow! Great idea and you executed it well! But I am confused...it is a dumb question but if this was a long exposure and he had time to do the light painting a d you jumped in thAt same shot...how are you up there a d in focus and not a blurred streak?

[Mick Porter]

@espyetta Thanks for the fav. Not a dumb question at all, just that most of the shot was done in quite dark conditions then just as I jumped the flash was manually fired (expertly by @brizmako) so that I appeared frozen in time. Hope that helps :)

[Mick Porter]

@elizabeth264 Thanks for the fav Elizabeth. Not sure if it's a look of joy or a look of understanding the sheer stupidity of doing this!!!

[MaryBeth Dailey]

@pizzaboy Oh yes....so you started the shot, he was doing the light painting on the floor, then you ran and jumped and the flash was fired on you. So this is even cooler than I thought! Glad I faved it!

[Mick Porter]

@espyetta Yes, that's it, thanks :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

@pizzaboy PP!!!! Nice!!

[Jen]

Brilliant.. Well done to the whole team!,

[Marlena Dentrone]

I LOVE LIGHT PAINTING!!!!! Haven't done any in YEARS!!!!!

[Martha Wright]

This is awesome! Impressed that you're doing your project on an NEX-5 - you're getting great results. I think I might save up for one of those, though my iPhone will do for now ;)

[Jennie]

This is class - love the fireyness at the end of the tunnel. And you look like you're enjoying yourself !

[Anja]

Fantastic fun shot!!!

[Mick Porter]

@fungirlslim Thanks very much

[Mick Porter]

@photochik Thanks Marlena, I'll post a few of the light painting shots we took - tried to keep it simple on this one to focus on the jump

[Mick Porter]

@wrighty Cheers Martha, the NEX-5 is great, I bought it second-hand, really enjoying it.

[Mick Porter]

@jennie_lee Thanks Jennie, definitely enjoyed it

[Mick Porter]

@stiggle Thanks Anja

[Sue Barnicoat]

I love light paintings, this is great, well done to the team.

[Mick Porter]

@suebarni Thanks Sue

[paula goff]

wow Mick! this is such a fun, awesome shot! well done!! fav.......and i hope your photo is picked as a finalist for the jump theme!

[Mick Porter]

@paulaag Thanks Paula - I threw myself right into this shot :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

@pizzaboy Hey Mick... this is on the HOME PAGE!!! Woohoo! Hopefully that eases the pain of the fall :P

[Mick Porter]

@ozziehoffy Cool, I new the pain would be worth it for Internet fame :)

[Cassandra Hoffmann]

@pizzaboy lol... there's gotta be some reason we do crazy things, right?

[sharee]

ha ha this is way cool. very clever!!!

[Mick Porter]

@sharee Thanks Sharee :)

[Aaron]

yes it did, this is TOTALLY awesome! Fave!

[Mick Porter]

@grizzlysghost Thanks for the fave Aaron!

[Joanne]

Hi Mick, Check out the popular page...your right there. Good one. :)

[Mick Porter]

@veg66 Thanks - and all I had to do was jump like a mad man in a drainage tunnel in the middle of the night!

[Joanne]

@pizzaboy No problem...now you know what you have to do to become popular. :)) Keep up the good work.

[Mick Porter]

@veg66 I'll try setting my hair on fire next time

[Brian Baptie]

Awesome Mick. Fav.

[Mick Porter]

@bdb3471 Thanks Brian

[☯ Sarah ☁]

Very cool shot, great for the theme, congrats on making it out alive :)

[Mick Porter]

@sjodell Thanks Sarah, glad I didn't get seriously injured!

[Alan Warren]

LOL this silliness has gone huge, mate! Congrats on the PP B-)

[Julie]

Cool shot.

[David H.]

Great series of light painting shots I don't know how you did it all but I'm impressed, great work

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako Cheers - your flashing has been very popular

[Mick Porter]

@juleswoome Thanks Julie

[Mick Porter]

@hasselhotch Thanks David, we had fun doing it

[Alan Warren]

I can NOT believe this didn't make it to the final of the jump theme, MIck. What a fkn gip >:-[

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako Oh well, there were some good ones in the final, had fun doing this though and seemed to give a few people some laughs at my expense :)

[Megan Richardson]

you were robbed

[Mick Porter]

@lbmcshutter LoL!

[Alan Warren]

Just revisited this one to give a link on SAL. We should all be very proud of this pic B-)

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako LoL, especially as I fell and got injured!

[Alan Warren]

Not on this version you didn't. The first one was the crippler, wasn't it? @pizzaboy

[Mick Porter]

@brizmako True, by this stage I'd already had my fall and was in substantial pain!