Crazy high jump perspective picture

thanks! that was, well worth the copy and paste to see it! blows my mind everytime i see that picture

Is this link better:

http://pic.twitter.com/91LZwxT7Uy

Frogger wrote:

Is this link better:

http://pic.twitter.com/91LZwxT7Uy

You should show this to the retards who claim that Kobe Bryant is the world´s greatest athlete.

Anyone know how high a pro high jumper can jump standing straight up and how that compares to an NBA pro?

The best vertical leaps from what I've read and heard come from throwers and olympic weighifters.

The idea that superimposing two photographs, both taken from ground level, is giving "perspective" is laughable. Look at him, he almost hit the roof beams!

Seeing how most people know that a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, I think it gives very good perspective.

I have no idea how high the roof beams are but he doesn't look very close to them at all.

Frogger wrote:

This captures the ridiculousness of how high people can jump:

pic.twitter.com/91LZwxT7Uy

Great picture - thanks for this!

all things in perspective wrote:

Seeing how most people know that a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, I think it gives very good perspective.

I have no idea how high the roof beams are but he doesn't look very close to them at all.

No, perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

malmo wrote:

all things in perspective wrote:

Seeing how most people know that a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, I think it gives very good perspective.

I have no idea how high the roof beams are but he doesn't look very close to them at all.

No, perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

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malmo wrote:

all things in perspective wrote:

Seeing how most people know that a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, I think it gives very good perspective.

I have no idea how high the roof beams are but he doesn't look very close to them at all.

No, perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

This. Also, what "all things in perspective" is also neglects to address the issue of disproportion: the pictures are not matching in ratio (a basketball backboard is larger, and the rim would be higher off the ground - the bar at 2.43m is 95.67 inches off the ground vs. what should be 120 inches for the basketball rim, yet the HJ bar height is 325 pixels vs. the basketball rim's 375 ... or about 3.4 pixels per inch for the HJ bar vs. 3.1 for the basketball rim, making the HJ bar look higher than it would be in an actual side-by-side comparison).

Just because someone photoshops something into another picture doesn't mean it gives accurate representation. Usually, it does not (people tend to exaggerate to prove their "point", especially when editing photos to do so).

malmo wrote:

perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

It's from the perspective of a spider watching from the ground, not the perspective of Mutaz.

Bad Wigins wrote:

malmo wrote:

perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

It's from the perspective of a spider watching from the ground, not the perspective of Mutaz.

Now that you've cleared up the obvious, try to keep up will ya?

malmo wrote:

all things in perspective wrote:

Seeing how most people know that a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, I think it gives very good perspective.

I have no idea how high the roof beams are but he doesn't look very close to them at all.

No, perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

Obviously, English is not your first language.

get a dictionary wrote:

malmo wrote:

No, perspective would be a photo taken at the height of the bar, not taken from ground level.

Obviously, English is not your first language.

Not yours, for sure.

There is no perspective gained by juxtaposing two images together that are sized at a different scale, viewed from different observations points, and compounded by parallax displacement.

Looking up a ski slope at the top of the first lift, directly in the line of sight of a second, higher lift, tells you nothing about the relative difference in the elevation of the two lifts. Observing the two lifts from another mountain at the same elevation as the top of the first lift provides visual perspective.

Here is a link to a video of the actual jump, and a photonotshopped image of the actual clearance.

perspective - particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

so yes, a view from the ground with the basketball hoop photoshopped in is perspective. it might be a misleading perspective, but it's still a perspective.

learn_english wrote:

perspective - particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

so yes, a view from the ground with the basketball hoop photoshopped in is perspective. it might be a misleading perspective, but it's still a perspective.

You aren't serious are you? How about you try using the definition that relates to this thread?

1. the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

"when viewed from a particular point"

in this case, the point is from the ground. how about learning how to read? would that be too difficult for you?

As someone else has pointed out, that picture is way off. 2.43 meters is just under 8 feet...there should be 2 feet clearance between the rim and the bar and there does not appear to be at all. Color me not impressed.