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Old 10-12-2012, 10:45 PM
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Great Shuttle photo

Looking through 2012 - A Year in Photographs I came across this image.

Love it.
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:05 AM
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Great Shot!
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Old 11-12-2012, 06:26 AM
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I can't believe the kids were playing basketball while it was going by I smell setup but a good one.
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Old 11-12-2012, 09:32 AM
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I can't believe the kids were playing basketball while it was going by I smell setup but a good one.
I thought exactly the same thing Warren. LOL
Great shot tough.
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Old 11-12-2012, 02:27 PM
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Could be real.

I believe the shuttle only travelled at 1 or 2 mph through the streets so there would be plenty of time to step out and have a look.
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Old 12-12-2012, 06:03 AM
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Watching a retired old shuttle won't make them millionaires however playing ball might... I like their dedication even as far as playing in thongs.
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Old 12-12-2012, 03:05 PM
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Its a setup.
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Old 12-12-2012, 05:44 PM
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Yep, check the length of the shadows on the shuttle vs the length of the shadows on the kids. Sorry but photshop is everywhere now.
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Old 12-12-2012, 07:19 PM
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Yep, check the length of the shadows on the shuttle vs the length of the shadows on the kids. Sorry but photshop is everywhere now.

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Old 12-12-2012, 09:46 PM
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I can't see anything wrong with the shadows. The shuttle looks like the sun is to the top right and slightly behind, as it does for the boys, and in particular the ball. But did anyone ask why the person on the top right is on the roof and not looking at the shuttle?
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Old 12-12-2012, 09:52 PM
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Its a setup.
I reckon the only setup is the kids are only pretending to play basketball and as soon as the shot was taken they rushed out to look at it.
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Old 12-12-2012, 10:45 PM
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The only thing that looks odd to me is that the shuttle seems to be awfully close to the house....what about the wings...? Unless there is some telephoto compression - but it doesn't look like a long focal length shot...

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Old 12-12-2012, 11:03 PM
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Hey Tom , look at the non-existant shadows from the trees in the back ground , on the hill ( just above the shuttles nose ) Busted !!!
Still a great concept . Man if it trundled past here you would not be playing basketball , thats for sure ??? .
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I can't see anything wrong with the shadows. The shuttle looks like the sun is to the top right and slightly behind, as it does for the boys, and in particular the ball. But did anyone ask why the person on the top right is on the roof and not looking at the shuttle?

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The shuttle's route takes it through the neighboring city of Inglewood, then up Crenshaw Boulevard through South Los Angeles, a major Latino and black urban core. It will pass through Leimert Park, a leafy, historic neighborhood that for decades has been the heart of the city's African-American arts scene.
What the hell is going on with this forum... so many wonder photographers here producing so many wonderful photos and when something like this gets produced people scream photoshop / conspiracy / blah blah blah ... I'm sooooo disappointed.

Took me all of 20 minutes to just sit down and investigate this.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...reets/1625087/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49405486...a-home-museum/

http://woodlandhills.patch.com/artic...reets-1f02b4bd

BTW: The house is on the confirmed travel path of the Endeavour on it's way to the LA Museum...

LAT/LONG: 33.962912, -118.331107
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Old 13-12-2012, 02:23 PM
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Good investigative work OICURMT
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Old 13-12-2012, 02:57 PM
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Nice work OIC!

I posted many of these pics on facebook, it was crazy how close it came to those houses- what lucky lucky people.

Here's a time-lapse showing just how close it came, it's awesome, watch it!!!
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10...ek-across-l-a/

And here are some of the incredible piccies that I posted on fb!

"The Shuttle on it's final 12 mile journey to the California science centre doing a snails pace of 3 feet per second. "Space shuttle Endeavor is five stories high, 78 feet wide and 122 feet long. In order for tOV-105 to make the trip through downtown Los Angeles, 67 traffic lights had to be temporarily taken down and over 200 trees had to be removed from the area. An estimated 14,000 people lined the streets to see the space shuttle up close for the first time."

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Old 13-12-2012, 05:17 PM
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http://i.imgur.com/ASfCs.gif

Here's a contribution encapsulating the union between a few of the IIS hot topics: night photography, timelapse and spaceships
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Old 13-12-2012, 05:22 PM
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That is *alot* of Shuttles Pi!
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Old 14-12-2012, 04:37 AM
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Of course it's a setup for the photo, but it's a completely real photo.
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Old 14-12-2012, 04:38 AM
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