First surf shoots

jeff lapoint

Hey there sports fans:thumb

I'm back in San Diego for a few days on family business and got a chance to to shoot some surf shots. Even got a chance to get in the water myself for a few hours:D





Thats just not nice:evil

One of my favorite things to watch:wink

and one of the photog...taken by my brother in law



All shot with 30d, 400 5.6L. and cheapo tamy 1.4x.
I know there are some things a need to work on: get closer/more facial detail (that reminds me, please see my ad for WTB: 300 2.8!)
Anything else you guys can think of please feel free to fire away!

Thanks for looking in.

-j

Skippy

jeff lapoint wrote:

Hey there sports fans

I'm back in San Diego for a few days on family business and got a chance to to shoot some surf shots. Even got a chance to get in the water myself for a few hours:D
Thats just not nice
One of my favorite things to watch
and one of the photog...taken by my brother in law
All shot with 30d, 400 5.6L. and cheapo tamy 1.4x.
I know there are some things a need to work on: get closer/more facial detail (that reminds me, please see my ad for WTB: 300 2.8!)
Anything else you guys can think of please feel free to fire away!
Thanks for looking in.
-j

Hi Jeff,
Surf looks good .... I really like the first shot, the difference in colour tones on that Tube starting to form.

They all look good, a little blown out on the foaming surf, but other than that you got a good series.

Looking at image #4 & #5 I think with a little bit of editing you could join those images and it would look like double waves and surfers

Thanks for sharing ..... Skippy
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bonniejo

I like the 4th one. I'm not sure why, but I do. Lol

jeff lapoint

Skippy wrote:

Hi Jeff,
Surf looks good .... I really like the first shot, the difference in colour tones on that Tube starting to form.

They all look good, a little blown out on the foaming surf, but other than that you got a good series.

Looking at image #4 & #5 I think with a little bit of editing you could join those images and it would look like double waves and surfers

Thanks for sharing ..... Skippy
.

Thanks Skippy! I was checking for blinkies the entire time so I think any blowout was from my bumping the exposure in post. They're all RAW so I think I just need to go back through them and play a bit. Thanks fior the advice !

-j

jeff lapoint

bonniejo wrote:

I like the 4th one. I'm not sure why, but I do. Lol

Cool! Thanks bonniejo! I had fun both being out in the water and getting a few shots. I'm looking forward to posting more in the sports forum

-j

SDJames

I especially like the spray shots. I'll be getting in the water and trying to spray myself in the morning. If there is sun, I usually shoot some as well.

For me, I can never get close enough. I usually crop as much as I can, but the 30D with 300mm only gets so close.