surf's up

Andy

i got the chance today, among other things, to shoot up some surfers. this was with canon 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. aboard, canon 1.4x and tamron 1.4x teleconverters stacked. iso 200, f/8, 1/1000th sec.

fun day!



it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day :lol3

enjoy (surfing) photography,

gus

Nailed that one mate....your starting to become one of the long L gang i recon. Bit of a closet 500mm man i think

ian408

Humungus wrote:

Nailed that one mate....your starting to become one of the long L gang i recon. Bit of a closet 500mm man i think

Ian

rutt

Shooting surf shots is pretty frustrating. Hard to compate with the specialists with their great glass and deep experience. This is a good capture, but it suffers because water droplets obscure the surfer and the viewer can't help but wish for a better angle.

It took me all summer last year to figure out that shooting surf shots at dawn worked zillions of time better than evening or midday. Dawn vs evening was just a fact about Nantucket beaches and where the sun was. Midday, well, midday is midday. Of course on Nantucket, the surf only really comes up for big storms and not for long, so you just have to go with the reality of what happens.

The water spray tends to make a mess, no matter.

Evening:



Midday:



Dawn:

Andy

Humungus wrote:

Nailed that one mate....your starting to become one of the long L gang i recon. Bit of a closet 500mm man i think

not bloody likely!

i'll be using OPLG

will happily share shorties for longs any day!

thanks gus.

windoze

wow - thats certainly a different kind of image from you - its excellent also!!! i have a question.... i understand the canon 1.4,, but why the tamron 1.4 also ...... i guess the answer is to get more distance but why not the use two canon 1.4 or is there a reason you cant do that???



troy

andy wrote:

i got the chance today, among other things, to shoot up some surfers. this was with canon 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. aboard, canon 1.4x and tamron 1.4x teleconverters stacked. iso 200, f/8, 1/1000th sec.

fun day!



it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day

enjoy (surfing) photography,

Andy

windoze wrote:

wow - thats certainly a different kind of image from you - its excellent also!!! i have a question.... i understand the canon 1.4,, but why the tamron 1.4 also ...... i guess the answer is to get more distance but why not the use two canon 1.4 or is there a reason you cant do that???

troy

thanks troy

the reason for the tamron 1.4 is that i borrowed it from steve

you can mix n match no problem....

RevcoMan

it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day

I've developed quite a love affair with my EF-S 10-22mm... It likes to stay mounted to my camera more than any of my other lenses combined... :uhoh

Steve Cavigliano

Andy,

This came out very well And here we thought we'd have to jump in the water and rescue your camera if a big wave washed you off the rocks :lol
You definitely are not afraid to risk life, limb and more importantly, your kit to capture the "action"



Hey Troy,
Other reasons to use the cheapo Tamron are that it fits any lens and it doesn't report aperture back to the camera. IOW, even with two 1.4X TC's on, Andy's camera saw F4 as the max aperture. Not F5.6, as it would have with two Canon TC's.

Steve

Harryb

andy wrote:

i got the chance today, among other things, to shoot up some surfers. this was with canon 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. aboard, canon 1.4x and tamron 1.4x teleconverters stacked. iso 200, f/8, 1/1000th sec.

fun day!
it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day

enjoy (surfing) photography,

Hey Andy,

I see that Steve has been a good influence on you. We will have you going for those long lenses pretty soon. Good shot

MHughes

andy wrote:

i got the chance today, among other things, to shoot up some surfers. this was with canon 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. aboard, canon 1.4x and tamron 1.4x teleconverters stacked. iso 200, f/8, 1/1000th sec.

fun day!



it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day

enjoy (surfing) photography,

Beautiful shot as I said in my post I didn't capture that I just got her board and she had vanished.. It is not easy to shoot surfers..There easier to spot then those darn birds though.

binghott

this stuff got me excited, i'm from new york and my friend invited me out to take pictures of him surfing when it gets a little warmer. he goes before school so the sunlight shouldnt be too bad i hope. hopefully i'll get some good shots.

Andy

ian408 wrote:

Ian

yeah ian that's some sweet glass ya got there. looking forward to making some 500mm landscape shots with that in yosemite

evil eggplant

andy
andy


back to 20d? what did i miss?

Andy

evil eggplant wrote:

andy


back to 20d? what did i miss?

this...

Trish323

andy wrote:

i got the chance today, among other things, to shoot up some surfers. this was with canon 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. aboard, canon 1.4x and tamron 1.4x teleconverters stacked. iso 200, f/8, 1/1000th sec.

fun day!



it was, however, a relief to put on my ultrawide angle lenses at the end of the day

enjoy (surfing) photography,

Andy,
What a fantastic Capture!

So this is what I can do to add the reach to my 70-200?? stacked...hmmm...more cost effective than purchasing say a 50-500 Bigma?

Steve Cavigliano

Trish323 wrote:

Andy,
What a fantastic Capture!

So this is what I can do to add the reach to my 70-200?? stacked...hmmm...more cost effective than purchasing say a 50-500 Bigma?

Trish,
Using a TC will cost you some. It will cost you a stop in aperture and it will cost you some sharpness and detail the farther away your subject is. But, it will give you more reach I would imagine that the Bigma would be pretty hard for you to shoot handheld. It's over 4 pounds and at full zoom (and handholding) you pretty much have to keep the speed up (1/1000 or faster). A tripod or monopod would take care of the weight issue, though

Steve