Polar Swim in Full Business Attire

I attended a local polar bear swim yesterday afternoon, and this one guy jumped in the frigid lake in a suit and tie! This is the shot from that moment... pls let me know what you think!

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Great capture - good timing, composition, & exposure; but it feels a little tilted to the left to me.

Fire0725 wrote in post #15434670
...pls let me know what you think!

I think he's looney tunes, but that's just me

Nice capture.

Qbx wrote in post #15434684
Great capture - good timing, composition, & exposure; but it feels a little tilted to the left to me.

What do you mean, "tilted to the left"? Are you referring to the crop? There was another guy coming in behind them I cropped him out... maybe I should have left him in?

Fire0725 wrote in post #15434763
What do you mean, "tilted to the left"?

If you take note of the onlookers, they look a little tilted to me, too. Either they've all been drinking, or you need to adjust clockwise a little

This is another photo of the same event... in this shot the guy is being chased in by Santa!

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/fire0725/833767​8061/

LV Moose wrote in post #15434801
If you take note of the onlookers, they look a little tilted to me, too. Either they've all been drinking, or you need to adjust clockwise a little

Hmmm I'll have to have a look at that! I think I just shot crooked?! Thanks.

Tilt is a very easy fix. What processing software are you using?

love these pictures I hope you submitted these to a newspaper because I think they'd give you a bit of cash for them

that poor suit

Northwoods Bill wrote in post #15435151
Tilt is a very easy fix. What processing software are you using?

I'm using LR3, and I think I managed to get it corrected! Thanks for the help!

I did submit to some local papers, and to CTV news... CTV did publish it online and credit the photo to me, with a sentence or two about what was going on. I don't care that I didn't get paid for it - I was tickled pink to see it on the news!

Fire0725 wrote in post #15436060
I was tickled pink to see it on the news!

No kidding. That's cool.

Not as cool as the guys in water...

LV Moose wrote in post #15436075
No kidding. That's cool.

Not as cool as the guys in water...

http://mynews.ctvnews.​ca …=+&offset=0&sit​eT=toronto

Ya really! I included the link.

I'd say the guy was a fruit loop but so are all the other ones jumping into freezing water haha

Fire0725 wrote in post #15434670
I attended a local polar bear swim yesterday afternoon, and this one guy jumped in the frigid lake in a suit and tie! This is the shot from that moment... pls let me know what you think!


22 (1 of 1) by Fire0725, on Flickr

I hope that he had a dry Speedo to get into afterwards! heheheh

Congratulations on the news thing, that's pretty cool too!

I once took a test in the river water and the water was ICE COLD to me, at 70 degrees, and I had a wetsuit on in May.
This was more like 45 degrees in that pool probably, I can't imagine the GASP they did when they plunged. heheh

Randy