Surfing Competition

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited January 19, 2007 in Sports
Hi Y'all,

They held a professional surfing competiton at Sebastian Inlet this week so I stopped by a couple of days and took a few pics. These are from the early elimination rounds.

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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2007
    Nice images, Harry..I especially like the first one. It really "pops" and has great water spray. How does the difficulty factor compare when shooting surfers vs. flying birds???
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2007
    saurora wrote:
    Nice images, Harry..I especially like the first one. It really "pops" and has great water spray. How does the difficulty factor compare when shooting surfers vs. flying birds???

    Thanks, that pic should pop as I used DavidTo's excellent tutorial on it. :D
    http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/2292454/1

    Shooting surfing is an absolute breeze after shooting wildlife. You know where the surfers are going and its a snap to track them. Wildlife shooting has a much, much, higher degree of difficulty.
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  • Frog LadyFrog Lady Registered Users Posts: 1,091 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2007
    way to start the set w/ a "grab 'em and pull 'em in shot"thumb.gif Love it. You've also got some great expressions and action in there, Harry. So, you ready to give up the boids yet?:D

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Frog Lady wrote:
    way to start the set w/ a "grab 'em and pull 'em in shot"thumb.gif Love it. You've also got some great expressions and action in there, Harry. So, you ready to give up the boids yet?:D

    C.

    Thanks Colleen it was fun shooting the meet. I had been in a real slump lately and taking some crappy pictures so I needed a change of pace to get the juices flowing again. This was a nice change of pace and there were no gators to keep an eye out for. .
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Nice one 'arry. That first one is great !
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Hi Y'all,

    They held a professional surfing competiton at Sebastian Inlet this week so I stopped by a couple of days and took a few pics. These are from the early elimination rounds.

    Hey?? headscratch.gif no birds ??? did those surfers scare them off ? :D
    Nice series Harry, I had a go at water sport today myself, I sucked at it, but I learnt something so next time I will do better :D

    Thanks for sharing Harry........ Skippy
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Skippy wrote:
    Hey?? headscratch.gif no birds ??? did those surfers scare them off ? :D
    Nice series Harry, I had a go at water sport today myself, I sucked at it, but I learnt something so next time I will do better :D

    Thanks for sharing Harry........ Skippy
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    Harry & i swappped for the day...he did surfers & i did egrets.

    Actually..headscratch.gif thats a bit weird now that i think about it.
  • ed_hed_h Registered Users Posts: 191 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    I like the first and last ones in particular, its as if you were in the water with them, considering it was only 1 or 2 ft on shore slop (east coast in other wordsrolleyes1.gif ) there excellent. what lens were you using
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Nice one 'arry. That first one is great !

    Thank you Gus I had a good time taking the shots. It was nice to get out of the swamp for a bit.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Skippy wrote:
    Hey?? headscratch.gif no birds ??? did those surfers scare them off ? :D
    Nice series Harry, I had a go at water sport today myself, I sucked at it, but I learnt something so next time I will do better :D

    Thanks for sharing Harry........ Skippy
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    Hey Skippy,

    There wre lots of birds around but I was taking a bird break that day. :D

    Thanks for stopping by.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    ed_h wrote:
    I like the first and last ones in particular, its as if you were in the water with them, considering it was only 1 or 2 ft on shore slop (east coast in other wordsrolleyes1.gif ) they excellent. what lens were you using
    ed

    Thanks Ed, the waves were really wimpy that day so they needed some careful framing. I used the D2X with the 300mm F4 and 1.7 TC on these shots (handheld).
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  • MJRPHOTOMJRPHOTO Registered Users Posts: 432 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Hey Skippy,

    There wre lots of birds around but I was taking a bird break that day. :D

    Thanks for stopping by.
    I was out shooting some surf and got a photo of some birds.

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  • xtnomadxtnomad Registered Users Posts: 340 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2007
    Great shots, I also like how they pop and need to go thru davidTOs tut again and put it in pratice. thumb.gif Did I spell that right, O well long term problems with short term memory.headscratch.gif
    xtnomad :wink
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    gus wrote:
    Harry & i swappped for the day...he did surfers & i did egrets.

    Actually..headscratch.gif thats a bit weird now that i think about it.

    I don't know Gus but the image I get of you "doing" egrets is kind of kinky. rolleyes1.gif
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited January 15, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    I don't know Gus but the image I get of you "doing" egrets is kind of kinky. rolleyes1.gif

    I'm not hearing that...LALALALALALA....

    Nice shots Harry, especially the first.

    How was the surf? Looks like three or so feet?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    MJRPHOTO wrote:

    I was out shooting some surf and got a photo of some birds.

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    Great photos buy the way.

    Thanks for the kind comment and the sea gull. :D
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  • SenecaSeneca Registered Users Posts: 1,661 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    Beautiful...you got some great shots. You captured some great facial expressions. thumb.gif
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    xtnomad wrote:
    Great shots, I also like how they pop and need to go thru davidTOs tut again and put it in pratice. thumb.gif Did I spell that right, O well long term problems with short term memory.headscratch.gif

    Thanks a lot and David's tutorial is excellent and I've started using it more frequently and I'm getting good results with it.
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  • JWilbur26JWilbur26 Registered Users Posts: 90 Big grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    These came out great...I was planning on making the trip down there but got tied up. Glad to see someone on here got a few shots.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    ian408 wrote:
    I'm not hearing that...LALALALALALA....

    Nice shots Harry, especially the first.

    How was the surf? Looks like three or so feet?

    Thanks Ian. The surf was real wimpy, 2-3 feet. They were considering calling it off for the day but the next day's forecast was no better. I got some shots two days later with some much heavier surf.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    Seneca wrote:
    Beautiful...you got some great shots. You captured some great facial expressions. thumb.gif

    Thanks Seneca. Their racial expressions is what realy caught my eye that day.
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  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    Hey Harry, sorry I missed you , i was there on sunday afternoon,It was packed. went monday morning and they were done that morning rounds, of course the day I went i had the baby camera, no long good glass.
  • maczippymaczippy Registered Users Posts: 597 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    Nice Harry.

    Although with surfing shots it's worth trying to get a feel or sense of the wave as well so always think about stepping back and not cropping so tightly, the last shot in the set you posted is one I like as it captures the feeling of gravity.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    CookieS wrote:
    Hey Harry, sorry I missed you , i was there on sunday afternoon,It was packed. went monday morning and they were done that morning rounds, of course the day I went i had the baby camera, no long good glass.

    I was there for the morning rounds (when these were taken) and I returned on Thursday. You must have just missed me on Monday. :cry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2007
    maczippy wrote:
    Nice Harry.

    Although with surfing shots it's worth trying to get a feel or sense of the wave as well so always think about stepping back and not cropping so tightly, the last shot in the set you posted is one I like as it captures the feeling of gravity.

    Andrew

    Thanks Andrew. There are some who like the tighter crop and others who like to get more a feel of the settings. I ended up taking around 11 gigs worth of shots on the two days I was at the meet and I'll be posting some of both.
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  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2007
    I did not get there monday until 1100 ish. Here are a few from Sunday PM. Canon g5 p&s , I can see why you cropped close, as the waves look pitiful when you see them in context . Nothing like the surfing shots from hawaii :cry
  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2007
    another
  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2007
    sorry I cant add them to one post
  • CookieSCookieS Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2007
    last one
  • st33lzst33lz Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited January 19, 2007
    maczippy wrote:
    Nice Harry.

    Although with surfing shots it's worth trying to get a feel or sense of the wave as well so always think about stepping back and not cropping so tightly, the last shot in the set you posted is one I like as it captures the feeling of gravity.

    Andrew
    #3 nice angle on the shot, the action is good, the composition is good, and most importantly the surfer has some style, but as for the rest...yeah tight. You usually only see shots that tight when they're taken from the water. Doesn't look like you had much to work with that day.

    I konw you're just having fun with these, but to be honest - surfers don't want to see funny facial expressions. It's definatly not a selling point.

    St33lz
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