Surfing shot D70. Any comments appreciated.

[ozimax]

Took this off the rocks a few weeks back using D70 and Tamron 300mm lens, cropped photo and posted for comment. (Already had it published in local paper)

Thanks for comments in advance, Max

[MHD]

nice catch!

[ozimax]

Thanks. For some reason, I just have to be near the water. Spent last weekend on or near Sydney Harbour (and was born in Nepean District Hospital, would you believe...)

Max

[Killakoala]

Great moment of capture.

Congrats on making it in the local rag too.

[fozzie]

ozimax,

Excellent shot - certainly captures the moment.

No wonder it made it to the local paper.


Cheers,

[birddog114]

ozimax,
You've done well! exactly the well done job by the guy behind the viewfinder, not the lens or camera.
Keep them coming!

[Marty]

Hey Ozimax,
thats a great shot, you caught the moment perfectly.
Marty

[W00DY]

Oximax,

Great shot mate. Keep posting more surfing shots for me.

Since having two kids I don't get to surf as much as I used to (used to live on the water at Dee Why).

Cheers,

W00DY

[Oneputt]

I agree with everyone else - great timing. So what gear? How heavily has it been cropped. Love to know.

[JordanP]

Excellent shot !! I totaly love surf photography, and you have a great image there. Might be worth sending to some surfing mags to get a bit more exposure.

[sirhc55]

Max, your affinity with water shows in this shot - well done

[yeocsa]

Nice Action shot. Is your Tamron 300 a f2.8?

[timbo]

Great shot Max! How far from the surfer were you?

[W00DY]

Great shot Max! How far from the surfer were you?

Looks like a little bech break so maybe not to far

Max - Was this handheld or did you setup a tripod

W00DY

[ozimax]

Trying to answer all the questions:

Big rock is approx 60 metres from action, depends where the waxheads are, this fellow was a goofyfooter and so came towards me. Sometimes they surf the other way. Have to be careful not to get spray on D70 as I don't think salt water is great for a camera!

No tripod used this time although I have lugged one down there but it's a bit hard getting it stable on the rock platform which of course is uneven.

EXIF data as follows: f6.0 @ 1/2000 in JPG mode with manual WB and auto focus. Tamron 300 is slow to focus so I normally keep half pressing shutter button every few seconds to keep focus ready otherwise the ride is over before the lens focusses.

Max

[HappyFotographer]

Hi Max

great shot, I grew up in Coffs, so this brought back some nice memories....keep them coming, would love more images of "home".

Cheers
Deb

[W00DY]

Tamron 300 is slow to focus so I normally keep half pressing shutter button every few seconds to keep focus ready otherwise the ride is over before the lens focusses.

Max

Would it be worth trying the continuos mode? If you keep the surfer in the same focus point while panning across the wave the camera shoudl keep focusing for you.

I used this technique a few times with my son (coming down water slides) and it seemed to work pretty well.

W00DY

[ozimax]

Have tried continuous mode, I seem to take better pictures with my own sense of "timing", although will try continous again. I also want to try RAW mode which is new to me. I often take photos with incorrect WB setting and RAW would fix that I think.

Will try and post more Coffs Harbour pics, it sure is a beautiful place.

Max

[W00DY]

Will try and post more Coffs Harbour pics, it sure is a beautiful place.

Max

Looking forward to them

W00DY

[ozimax]

Hey Woody, several people helped me last night in getting the HTML thing right for posts, it worked fine on the Xp machine, but now I'm back on my iBook. Do you know how to find the URL for pixspot images in osX? eg in XP, you right click the image and go to properties and get the URL, but in osX it doesn't work that way.

I must be dumb I think...

[Glen]

Ozimax, sirhc55 is a mac user and faced this problem a little while back, he might be able to help. Maybe stick up a post asking for help from mac users, he or someone else will probably respond

[ozimax]

Thanks Glen, will try

[W00DY]

Hey Woody, several people helped me last night in getting the HTML thing right for posts, it worked fine on the Xp machine, but now I'm back on my iBook. Do you know how to find the URL for pixspot images in osX? eg in XP, you right click the image and go to properties and get the URL, but in osX it doesn't work that way.

I must be dumb I think...

Sorry mate have not used a Mac very much (look at my other posts though as I am in the middle of a debate with myself wether I shoudl change over or not)...

Can't help you here.

W00DY

[ozimax]

The story of this photo continues. Our local rag published the photo, and then earlier this week, the actual surfer in the photo ( a real nice young bloke just up the road from here) somehow found my phone number, called me and asked for some copies, which of course I supplied.

He then asked if he could hire me to take some more action surf shots of him and his mates when there' s a good swell running. Of course, I said I would be delighted to do so!

Stay tuned folks...Max