Re: Timing - know your subject - Olympics

Op 30/07/2024 om 14:55 schreef Alan Browne:

  From the surfing competition (taking place about 16,000 km from Paris).
 Monday, the famous waves of Teahupo’o gave Gabriel Medina a ride to remember. The Brazilian star made the most of the moment — as did a photographer who caught Medina in a remarkable pose of celebration.
 The image, captured by Jerome Brouillet for Agence France-Presse, showed Medina and his tethered board appearing to perform parallel levitations above the South Pacific Ocean. Rather than a scene of serenity, however, the photo told a striking tale of the Olympics’ competitive spirit, given that Medina was using his right arm and raised index finger to make a “No. 1” gesture while in midair.
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5TTUYT33WZ2KOLF2JVXOVWWU2I_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200
 “I was not surprised about that, I was prepared,” the 39-year-old photographer, who has been shooting surfing and other sports for most of a decade, said in a phone interview Monday evening. “I and the other photographers on the boat were supposing he was going to make a kick-out, and that’s what he did.
“So I pushed the button,” he added with a laugh.
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 Alas - there is no technical detail in the image file that I DL'd.
Elsewhere perhaps.
 As to the location, the surf conditions there are exceptionally compact and fierce.  Fro shore you would barely know there were big surf-able waves.
 

Looks like an iconic pic.. on X there is a version with better quality:
https://i.imgur.com/Gf8sdcY.jpeg
The clouds under his feet look kinda weird.. almost like he's standing on a platform.