So.. it's a composite and .. "transiting" isn't quite accurate either. hmmm :-(
>The sun in the background was sharpened via a stacked image but the image is 100% real and authentically captured in camera (see the video in the OP reply for real time view). Not a composite!
He just kept shooting the sun after the jumper cleared, and stacked up those shots. I think saying it's a 'composite' devalues the image and just makes it seem like he cut out the jumper and pasted on to the sun.
It does devalue the image indeed. He didn't cut out the jumper and paste it onto the sun but he did take images of the sun and paste them onto the jumper, using the jumper as a mask. Which seems to me like a distinction without a difference.
If his images were real they would have shown the powered paraglider too. The images are a composite of photos that he took of the sun and a frame from the video that he took of the jumper.
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This is like saying long exposures don't count because they're composite images
That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean double exposures?
Isn't a long exposure one where you leave the aperture open for a long time, but it still constitutes as a single take?
Yes
Even multiple exposures of one frame of film is, as far as I can tell, still generally considered one photograph.
Love it. The concept and the execution. Just bought one for my new place.
What an achievement.
Incredible.