Surf Photos From Today - Critiques Welcome

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japollner

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Rye RocksRye Beach, NH
Canon 7d100-400 L USM 4.5-5.6Shot 1/500, f5.6, iso 6400 and pushed hard in Photoshop
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Questions? Comments?
 
when you push the contrast and blacks like that you lose the definition surfer in the wave. it is the worst on the barrel one but the others have it too.

sick shots though
 
These were shot at 5pm in 20 degree weather snowing. trust me, the surfer is better defined in these than the originals. Surf photogs know. There is no way yo make a surfer in a wet suit pop on a new england break.
 
First off, fuck you and your ISO! Im still stuck with 1600 and boy is

it a shitty 1600 at that. Second off, Im not a surf photog so keep that

in mind.

Now to the shots

1) Decent, my 2nd favorite, wish it was tighter though..

2) Almost completely lose the surfer..

3) Not digging the vignette, nor the overlapped sillhouetted body parts, makes the action kind of confusing to the virgin eye (me)

4) My favorite of the 4, wish he was placed more to the right, and we could see more of the wave that he is looking at.

Not sure if your were at 400mm, but I would love for these to be tighter!
 
What overlapped silhouetted body parts are you trying to claim?

Good Job man. try some dodging on the surfers wet suit, like in the barrel one. might be able to lighten it up more making him easier to identify.
 
Yea. Like I said, they were shot at 5:00pm on a super cloudy day...While snowing. So exposure was a problem. Hence the Iso6400 and intense editing.
 
i kind of wish the surfer was a little higher in the frame, but thats an artistic choice not a technical one
 
Guys, a surfer in a black wetsuit isn't really gonna have detail. I like the looseness and am looking forward to shoot looser stuff when the summer comes. The blakc and white looks nice.I only have a 300mm though.

About the contrast, did you have to increase it in post or what. When it's surfing time I'm gonna try with a red filter, a polarizer and pushing film and doing a lot of agitation during developing to increase it to get the spray like that.

 
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