Surfs Up

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Surfs Up

Postby chrisk on Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:37 pm

300/4 + 1.7TC

3D tracking. 350 shots, about 300 in focus from a sports hack like me. 300/4 and the TC worked like an absolute dream. i found that CW metering worked better, matrix struggled every now and then with the harsh shadows and different contrasts. cropped and resized. they could prob do with a USM pass aftr the resize but i forgot to add it to batch so now i cant be bothered. everything else is as shot in cam. all shot as jpegs with high contrast and highest sharpening.

thanks for looking. :)

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this is about a 70% crop

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Re: Surfs Up

Postby Doctor on Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:59 pm

Nice shots, makes me wish i got down the coast with the camera and board more often!! Thanks for the inspiration, how far out were these guys?
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Re: Surfs Up

Postby Glen on Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:03 pm

Sharp as Rooz, you are making that combo sing!
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Re: Surfs Up

Postby chrisk on Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:11 pm

some were reasonabley close, the guys riding the real big stuff were pretty far out. 450mm focal length and they were still a way off. the problem was that the shore break and tide were really high so i was losing 100m just to avoid getting my feet wet. (yeah i know i'm a pussy lol).

the last pic is the psycho riding the big sets using a jetski to tow him in/ out and onto the big waves. its about a 30% crop from original so that should give you an idea. this one is uncropped.

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Re: Surfs Up

Postby surenj on Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:26 pm

Nice execution...
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Re: Surfs Up

Postby Jeff on Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:20 am

Well done ,the surf was definitiyl up. The 300 f4 is a great lens.

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