surfing in sunny calif

jwear

How is the crop in this shot ?? I am going to work on the sand piper that I think I have room to try. here I was looking to get movement ?? left /rt but did i ? and up and down ? thanks Jeff :scratch

Harryb

jwear wrote:

How is the crop in this shot ?? I am going to work on the sand piper that I think I have room to try. here I was looking to get movement ?? left /rt but did i ? and up and down ? thanks Jeff

Cool shot Jeff. You really caught a sense of motion in it. I would have composed it so he was on the left of frame going to the right but heck thats my hang up.

gus

What tele is that J ?


Morning shot i assume from the sun behind ?

jwear

Harryb wrote:

Cool shot Jeff. You really caught a sense of motion in it. I would have composed it so he was on the left of frame going to the right but heck thats my hang up.

thaks Harry Here is what I was thinking, the back of the board there is groove from the board and thats what i was showing sort of surfing off the page thanks for looking and for helping Jeff

jwear

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Humungus wrote:

What tele is that J ?


Morning shot i assume from the sun behind ?

mate you are on the wrong side of the sun it was going down and heading for your breakfast and my very favorite lens 70/200 vr love that lens , it is heavy but its my brother J

ian408

jwear wrote:

How is the crop in this shot ?? I am going to work on the sand piper that I think I have room to try. here I was looking to get movement ?? left /rt but did i ? and up and down ? thanks Jeff

The exposure to the left of the frame is better than to the right. If the
surfer were more to the left and maybe OE a stop to better expose?

Action is always good too. Like coming off the top of the wave or the cut
back down.

Ian

maczippy

jwear wrote:

How is the crop in this shot ?? I am going to work on the sand piper that I think I have room to try. here I was looking to get movement ?? left /rt but did i ? and up and down ? thanks Jeff

Jeff..

Not to be too brutally frank, but the image is a bit linear/flat. It doesn't speak waves/surfing.

Not that I am any expert, but the trick with surf shots is to imagine that you have to tell people that do not know surfing, or those that do (your potential market) that the wave they caught made them look like Kelly Slater..

The image you posted simply doesn't scream anything, even with low surf.

Try to catch surfers at the peak of a wave or a "trick".

Here's one I shot from last week, nothing too special but one I could find quickly to illustrate "peakness"...



Are you local? I'm in Santa Cruz.

Andrew

wxwax

Way good advice, Andrew.

Steve Cavigliano

Jeff,

I agree with Andrew. It's a nicely exposed shot, but the subject isn't doing anything that's very interesting. Yes, you can see the foam trail and yes you can imagine he's moving up the wave. But, if you watch much surfing, that's pretty tame stuff. I agree with Andrew about trying to catch the surfer(s) doing a trick, or better yet getting some air I believe these type shots are more interesting for surfers and non-surfers to view. Personally, I like to see the surfer somewhat parallel to the ocean's surface (like Andrew's example). You know, sort of defying gravity? Or, doing something like dipping their head into the curl as the wave is breaking. Or a nice roostertail



I'm no pro either, but I used to surf alot, and I have viewed thousands of magazine surf shots. Mine aren't even close to mag quality, but I keep trying. Take lots of shots in the continuous mode and chances are you will capture some kewl action, or wipeout shots.

Thanks for sharing and keep shooting those surf shots

Steve

jwear

maczippy wrote:

Jeff..

Not to be too brutally frank, but the image is a bit linear/flat. It doesn't speak waves/surfing.

Not that I am any expert, but the trick with surf shots is to imagine that you have to tell people that do not know surfing, or those that do (your potential market) that the wave they caught made them look like Kelly Slater..

The image you posted simply doesn't scream anything, even with low surf.

Try to catch surfers at the peak of a wave or a "trick".

Here's one I shot from last week, nothing too special but one I could find quickly to illustrate "peakness"...



Are you local? I'm in Santa Cruz.

Andrew

frank is fine and you are right ,yours and the other shot beat the you know what out of mine what i need is better surfers i have only been shooting for 6/7 months and getting to be friends with mr nikon [not easy] and was happy with the ho hum shot ,it was an ok shot and focus was good not very good thanks for the comments and the help .frank honest comments are the only ones that mean anything and i do appreciate them .If someone has there feelings hurt then they need to stay home .thanks for looking and the help JEFF i am in so cal used to spend a lot of time up north but with the adding of a son my travels are slowed

ian408

jwear wrote:

...what i need is better surfers

Sometimes that's half the battle. I've spent more than my fair share of
time waiting for a decent shot to come along.



And sometimes you get lucky (which I think I've had more than my fair
share of at surf shots).

Ian