tesladownunder

Small is relative and is not the impression you get from close up. Even a small TC is extremely loud and fearsome. Nevertheless I chose a scale that gave models of 4 feet high as a compromise so they could wear people clothes, shoes and hardhats. The other scale factor was the length of spark. I settled on 19 feet or so as trying to fit in 30 feet sparks made the Tesla coil in the picture too small which was really the focus of the shot. I was not really happy with the final result but with a full day setup and multiple problems the final shot was at 10:30 pm which was not a sociable time. I didn't have the 1/2 hour to correct the problems, reload the lines and reshoot. And why do this in the first place? Shameless self promotion mostly. I like to have lots of new WOW stuff that is nowhere else on the net. As a result my Tesla site is now up with the best in the world. Just Google for Tesla coil and Tesladownunder is usually 3 and 4 out of 400,000. I am catching up on my last competitors with similar sites who are both PageRank 6 and I am still 5 as I have been going for a much shorter time. The thing is that I am an ordinary Aussie bloke with no qualifications who is entirely self taught. Funny how things have turned out really. TDU

I am not really concerned. In fact the proportion of people calling this a fake is lower than some of my other photos (like the Tesla car thief protection) because I had a separate page and was able to indulge extra construction photos and explanations. Some "fake" comments are a real crack up like this one: Really! the guy being zapped is a cardboard cutout. This photo is now on about 70 English speaking sites (including this forum) and 40 foreign ones - mostly German so a LOT of people have seen it. I expect the Russians will pick it up more later as they usually like my stuff. It is officially my 4th most popular photo. Your forum is one of the few I have replied to. BTW I rarely play games or watch TV. I simply figured that this would be a nostalgic trip for those 12 million people that bought Red Alert 2. TDU

I am Tesladownunder and this is my photo. Sounds like people here are making accusations of fakery but have not even bothered to look at the site to understand how it was done. Maybe never even seen a Tesla coil. I have extensive explanations and diagrams on my site and about 1100 photos. Red Alert Tesla project page I will explain if you can't bother. There is no photoshopping at all. None. It is a single 17 second exposure that does have things that happen during that 17 seconds to give the effects. It is not "down a wire". There is a wire with a 3 foot gap held together by fishing line that the sparks jump across. During the first 10 second this first wire with gap is pulled across the long spark distance of 22ft. The camera will pick up all sparks as the line travels the distance giving the appearance similar to a single spark. After this effect is done then there is a similar line that is pulled from the Tesla trooper through to the lower toroid and on through to the shed to the right. There is only ever one spark at a time. Many things are happening during that 17 seconds and are the result of a lot of planning and 4 people doing stuff behind the scenes. Do you understand? TDU