Thursday, September 17, 2009

Tennis Serve (Gussie Moran)


Tennis Serve (Gussie Moran) (1949)
This picture is of a tennis star named Gussie Moran serving the tennis ball. It was created with high speed multiple flashes. It is almost mesmorizing just because of all the different rackets, how the girl appears to be a ghostly figure because of all the white, and how there are a lot of tennis balls in the picture due to how fast his camera was taking the pictures. It depicts 33 tennis reackets and there is also 33 tennis balls! This picture is definitly one of my favorite pictures I've ever seen due to the detail of the tennis shot and all the different motions in her serve. Edgerton was known for helping athletes out with their technique all because he could take pictures like these that could basically analyze every detail of the athletes technique. This picture really brought me in with how it doesn't even look like a tennis shot because of all the different things going on. How did Edgerton create this masterful picture? Where did he develop the technology for his camera to take this?

7 comments:

  1. At first glance, I thought this was a picture of a bird. Like a peacock or something. And then i didn't even want to look at it because I think pictures of birds are weird. But when I actually looked at the picture, it was kind of awesome.

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  2. This picture makes my eyes follow the racket around as if I'm watching it as if it were in real life. This picture is very interesting and I would like to find out how they took the picture.

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  3. i think this picture is really cool i would also like to find out how they took this pic

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  4. Like i said in the article the picture was made with high speed multiple flashes. Its a cool picture

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  5. I really like this picture because of how appealing to the eye it is. At first I didn't know what is was until I read the article. It had to be very hard to take this kind of picture.

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  6. I think if this picture didn't have a title people would not see what it was. Because at first glance it didn't look very appealing to me but then I read the title and looked at it closer and it jumped out at me. This picture is very cool.

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  7. I love how everything just jumps out when you really look at the photo. It's very interesting that Edgerton was able to create this in 1949 when technology wasn't even known to beable to produce a picture that looks so difficult to make. Very impressive.

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