Natsumi's Levitating Photos

I miss having 'Website of the Day' entries here in my blog! Hopefully, I get to do this more often starting now, mainly because there's a lot of good finds here in the internet. Now, for this time day, I happened to stumble into Natsumi Hayashi's photo blog: [ yowayowacamera.com ]

What's so great about her photo blog? She takes jump shots with no effort at all! Haha! Well actually, what I mean to say is... when we do jump shots, usually our face would look silly from all that physical force we often exert just to jump high or whatnot, and so, that would sometimes cause our clothes to be all over the place, and then we might even pass up as an extra in a horror movie (with our hair all over our face).

But for Natsumi, her jump shots are neat (if she wills it so) and she would always appear like she's levitating! Yes. It's as if she's completely frozen in mid air:

It's just so amazing how 'still' and calm her photos could really be.

But of course, these photos were perfected by doing gazillions of jumps—well that's an exaggeration, but yes, Natsumi takes a LOT of jumps (sometimes more than 300 jumps) just to get the shot that she wanted. Therefore in a short say, the making of the photos takes humongous work, but the result would make it look like there was zero effort. Haha. Well, she's actually gaining popularity from all over the world since some people are also starting to copy her levitating photos.

So yes, it's really cool and I'd personally like to try this sometime. In her website, Natsumi says that she takes her shots with "1/500 sec. or faster (1/320 sec. can be used in a darker condition)" shutter speed.

Natsumi Hayashi is Tokyo-based photographer.