Friday at the beach....

Steve Cavigliano

Hello All,
Well Andy was out here, this week, pretending to be working again :lol3 It had been raining since he got here :dunno Thursday night's shoot was not too good (but the food and company was excellent :thumb ). We planned on leaving early Fri morning to shoot street shots in The City and then head down to the Baylands in the afternoon to meet Ian. Andy had to stay at work a bit longer than expected and by the time we left it was pouring. We decided street shooting was out and figured if the weather was going to clear up, it would do so at the coast first. So we headed over to Santa Cruz. It rained really hard on the way over (wipers at full speed and still couldn't see :dunno ) and was still coming down hard when we got to the beach. We drove by the tent that was erected for the surf contest that was supposed to be going on. They had obviously called off the contest for that day. We parked in the Lighthouse parking lot and the wind was blowing the rain sideways :uhoh I could barely get my door open....lol We waited around for about 30 minutes, then said fahgedabowdit :rolleyes So we went to the Wharf and had a killer lunch (complete with rolls -another story over in the nature wildlife forum) :clap

Anyhow, the rain had let up and we even saw patches of blue sky : So we headed back to the Lighthouse and found that there were surfers going out. We noticed that one of the TV cameramen had set up and we figured we shoot some too Andy tried to talk to this guy, but he was a typical Hollywood putz :lol He obviously didn't recognize Andy :huh



While Andy was putzing around, :lol4 I shot a few surfers



We used to call this move the Quasimodo :lol



The wind was still blowing hard offshore.


But more surfers were jumping into the water. Yep, that's right, they were jumping from the cliffs into the water :huh








Pretty kewl way to get into the water, huh?

So not only did we survive the trip, we got some good shots and a great lunch :clap

Thanks for looking,
Steve

jwear

great set of shots Steve if you had the windsurfers down here sat. you would need very fast glass lots of wind .surfer shot always great Jeff

bfjr

Again nice set
Looks like fun jumping of the rocks, real sorta Island like
On the the "Quasimoto" lens, distance aprox ?

By the way you even managed a bird in the jump shots :cool

Andy

excellent shots, steve

i have identical shots, so you saved me the trouble of posting

Steve Cavigliano

jwear wrote:

great set of shots Steve if you had the windsurfers down here sat. you would need very fast glass lots of wind .surfer shot always great Jeff

Thanks Jeff

Glad you enjoyed the shots. For awhile there, it looked like this was going to be another fine eating (and only eating) day......lol

Thanks for taking the time to comment,
Steve

Steve Cavigliano

bfjr wrote:

Again nice set
Looks like fun jumping of the rocks, real sorta Island like
On the the "Quasimoto" lens, distance aprox ?

By the way you even managed a bird in the jump shots :cool

Thanks Ben

Distance was maybe 70 feet. The focal length was 313mm (a bit over 500mm with the 1.6x FOV). The lens for all these, as well as the nature shots, was the Sigma 50-500mm (the Bigma).

I noticed the comorant in the frame too.......lol

Thanks for looking,
Steve

Steve Cavigliano

andy wrote:

excellent shots, steve

i have identical shots, so you saved me the trouble of posting

Thanks Andy

Hey, I gave you 2 days to post yours :lol You snooze, you lose I didn't want it to be like last time where after your post, I had nothing to add (as in images to add). That's one of the drawbacks of shooting with a partner. You get the same shots.....lol


Had a great time, see ya in May Look out Ansel Adams :lol4

Steve

Dee

Jumping off the cliff to surf
How cool is that?

Great series. How many surfers jumped off like that before you got the cam set up? You used some kind of burst mode, right? Did you get this right the first time, or did you have to practice with a couple of jumping off the cliff surfers? :

Steve Cavigliano

Dee wrote:

How cool is that?

Great series. How many surfers jumped off like that before you got the cam set up? You used some kind of burst mode, right? Did you get this right the first time, or did you have to practice with a couple of jumping off the cliff surfers? :

Hiya Dee and Thanks

In actuality, this was the first one. I did take 5 other sets afterwards (5 other jumpers). I had the camera on continuous and it will shoot 6 RAW's, before pausing while digesting images. The toughest part was that I wanted to zoom more, but I knew that might cause me to lose part of the jumper (or the water).
So I stayed rather wide and cropped a bit

As Andy mentions, he also got some jumpers too. Hey, it was better than shooting gulls......lol


Thanks for responding,
Steve

Trish323

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Excellent shots, Steve! I need to hit the water now that I am hauling a speedy camera! I can't wait to get some shots like those. Sure looks dangerous jumping from those rocks though

Were you using burst mode for the jump?

Steve Cavigliano

Trish323 wrote:

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Excellent shots, Steve! I need to hit the water now that I am hauling a speedy camera! I can't wait to get some shots like those. Sure looks dangerous jumping from those rocks though

Were you using burst mode for the jump?

Hiya Trish

I was in continuous mode. So the reason the last "jump shot" makes it look like the water is only an inch deep is because that was my 6th RAW shot.....lol Six is all you get The water is really about 6 feet deep there. I really should have been shooting jpg only (23+ shots in continuous) , but we had been trying to shoot white birds the night before and I never changed the setting As much as I shoot, I either have to lighten up on the RAW's or buy a new 200GB drive.....lol

I've seen some of Harry's surf shots. Although, I don't know whether he gets out of his car to shoot those either....lol But, it looks like there's definitely some kewl action happening at the beaches. I look forward to seeing some of your "beach/surf" shots in the near future


Thanks for taking the time to comment,
Steve

System

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

cool shots steve, i love the spray in this one. man, i miss the ocean... pretty much lived by one all my life before moving heading all the way inland
i hope you have better luck with the weather next time and we get to see some beach bunnies

hehe, is that an egret you got in that burst?

take care,
sash

Steve Cavigliano

sash wrote:

cool shots steve, i love the spray in this one. man, i miss the ocean... pretty much lived by one all my life before moving heading all the way inland
i hope you have better luck with the weather next time and we get to see some beach bunnies

hehe, is that an egret you got in that burst?

take care,
sash

Thanks Sash

I know what you mean. I've lived by the ocean since I was 7 years old (suffice it to say, that was longgggggggg ago....lol). Other than a stint in the Air Force, I've never lived more than 30 miles away from the Pacific. If I had my choice of living anywhere, it would be near the ocean, or a forest. My 2 fav places

The weather should improve. We've already had 150% of our normal yearly rainfall. So odds are, we're going to be pretty dry for the rest of the year. I just hope we don't have bad weather for the Yosemite shoot in May

I think that's a commorant, sitting on the rock (which is usually full of seals in the summer and fall, it's even called Seal Rock.....lol).

Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to comment,
Steve