The breathtaking pictures that show there's more to sport than meets the eye
2nd May 2007
Daily Mail
A dozen identical-looking gymnasts cart-wheel and tumble across the gym mat. A long jumper lands in the sand closely shadowed by nine of his mirror image. A many-armed tennis player swings at a ball.
These amazing photographs are the result of a painstaking process to capture the movements of sports players at incredibly high speed.
Made by British photographer Hugh Turvey, they reveal the beauty and complexity of the moving body that the human eye cannot see.
Wheel of fortune: But in reality, it's just one man swinging on a horizontal bar
Reach for the sky: The camera magnificently captures this long jumper's leap as he exerts himself to full stretch in order to hit the winning distance
Leap of faith: The movements of this gymnast's jump are revealed as she cartwheels from the left of the picture, then performs a backward somersault
What a racket . . . this would be a fearsome sight across the net on the tennis court
Horse play: It look as if four more men are queuing up to perform
All the models were British and the pictures were shot at various locations around London.
To create them, Turvey used four high-resolution digital SLR cameras mounted close together on a purpose-built rig.
An electronic time controller was able to trigger the cameras at varying speeds in sequence.
Each camera was also equipped with its own strobe lighting unit, to enhance the high speed effect - camera shutter speeds of less than 1/1000th of a second were needed to freeze the action.
Each shot took hours to set up - every action sequence had to be repeated a dozen times or more to get the desired result - with a digital postproduction team composing the finished image. The results are truly breathtaking.
dailymail.co.uk
2nd May 2007
Daily Mail
A dozen identical-looking gymnasts cart-wheel and tumble across the gym mat. A long jumper lands in the sand closely shadowed by nine of his mirror image. A many-armed tennis player swings at a ball.
These amazing photographs are the result of a painstaking process to capture the movements of sports players at incredibly high speed.
Made by British photographer Hugh Turvey, they reveal the beauty and complexity of the moving body that the human eye cannot see.
Wheel of fortune: But in reality, it's just one man swinging on a horizontal bar
Reach for the sky: The camera magnificently captures this long jumper's leap as he exerts himself to full stretch in order to hit the winning distance
Leap of faith: The movements of this gymnast's jump are revealed as she cartwheels from the left of the picture, then performs a backward somersault
What a racket . . . this would be a fearsome sight across the net on the tennis court
Horse play: It look as if four more men are queuing up to perform
All the models were British and the pictures were shot at various locations around London.
To create them, Turvey used four high-resolution digital SLR cameras mounted close together on a purpose-built rig.
An electronic time controller was able to trigger the cameras at varying speeds in sequence.
Each camera was also equipped with its own strobe lighting unit, to enhance the high speed effect - camera shutter speeds of less than 1/1000th of a second were needed to freeze the action.
Each shot took hours to set up - every action sequence had to be repeated a dozen times or more to get the desired result - with a digital postproduction team composing the finished image. The results are truly breathtaking.
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