Minimalism Contest Entry by Ali Alsulaiman

Ali Alsulaiman

August 4, 2021

This is the new glass sky pool in London. This pool is suspended between two skyscrapers 115ft above the ground. I had to wait for the perfect cloud formation around noon to pull this off. I set up my composition and put my camera on a tripod with a 70-200 looking up at the pool. I triggered the continuous shooting mode which captured over 50 poses. I then selected the best pose. Also, since the dynamic range is very high (shooting against the sun), I had to shoot different exposures of the sky and pool which were merged in post with the swimmer.

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5 Comments

Douglas Turney August 5, 2021

Ok you had to wait for the perfect cloud formation, but I have to ask, was the swimmer photoshopped in?

Matthias Dengler August 5, 2021 Douglas Turney

I don't get it that people here always assume everything to be faked. I don't see any reason for any big manipulation there. I think it was just overly dodged.

Douglas Turney August 5, 2021 Matthias Dengler

I wasn't implying it was fake or there was anything wrong with it. The images on Fstoppers tend to lean towards having photoshop work done on them, and I wondered if the swimmer was added in. I asked this because the lighting on the swimmer and the sky would be tough to do without lighting or post-processing. As Ali explained, he did add the swimmer to the final image. He captured both the swimmer and the sky as two different images and combined them in post. Nothing wrong with that. I was simply wondering how the image was created.

Ali Alsulaiman August 5, 2021 Douglas Turney [Edited]

Hey Douglas, no the swimmer is not fake, on my Instagram you could see a video of him swimming. I triggered the continuous shooting mode which captured over 50 poses. I then selected the best pose. Also, since the dynamic range is very high (shooting against the sun), I had to shoot different exposures of the sky and pool which were merged in post with the swimmer.