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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Check out this video from Eclipse Clothing shot on a Canon 7D- Very Cool

Eclipse Clothing is based in LA and these two guys have been producing clothing for the urban surf and skate culture of southern California of the past 8 years.

They are also very talented at utilizing the canon 7D to it full potential. This is one of their very cool videos, check it out:

Catch me now from Ronald huertas on Vimeo.

To see more of these guys and their cool gear go to: http://www.eclipse2la.com

Here's some more information about these cool cats:

Rafael Navarro and Ronald Huertas started the company way back when they were in high school. Rafael wanted to start a clothing company, so he went to his friend Ronald, during their lunch break and told him he had an idea for a clothing company and he wanted to call it Eclipse. That very same day they came up with the logo and haven't changed either the name or the logo of the company since. They began selling T-shirts to their classmates out of the trunk of a friends car, cause neither of them had a car yet. Whatever money they made went directly back to the company to pay for more product and designs. By the end of senior year, they had a lot of support from the entire school. A big motivator for them was when their teachers began purchasing clothes for themselves and for their own kids. Their teachers were very supportive and encouraged them to follow their dreams.

The theme of the company fell into place on its own, with the name eclipse it was only fitting that they wanted to reach for the stars. They wanted to incorporate outer space into their company. They've always had a fascination for outer space and the possibilities beyond our world. Stars, galaxies, UFO's, aliens, all of it. Eclipse Clothing is how they've interpreted what's out there in that beautiful space. They've created a world inside of Eclipse Clothing, and just like the universe, it is going to continue to grow.

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Reflections of Gold: Wave Photography by David Orias (Via topazlabs.com)

Golden waves and other vibrant hues–Southern California native David Orias has unlocked the perfect mixture of location, lighting and photo-technique to capture the Pacific Ocean as it has never been seen before.

A Start in Surf Photography

Physician by day, Santa Barbara based David Orias became interested in photography in the late ’90s during the advent from film to the digital camera. With no formal education, Orias explains that he learned many fundamentals with the help of the Internet and feedback from other photographers . He would post his photos to sites such as photosig.com, where fellow members would provide criticisms of his work.

Around 2005, Orias took an interest in surf photography, where shots using a long lens were captured during international contests held in San Diego all the way to the Billabong Pipeline Masters in Oahu, Hawaii. With hundreds of photographers producing similar images, Orias decided to stand out from the crowd by using a slower shutter speed as well as panning the surfer, which created a blurred out background.

Admitting that it was a struggle to sell photos within this common genre of photography, the technique of panning and slower shutter speeds was brought over to photographing waves. By 2007 people started to offer to purchase prints of his fine art wave photos.

A Spot Like No Other

One particular location on the coast of Ventura Beach, CA offers the perfect geography for capturing these images–a nearby mountain range hides the sun as it rises in the morning so that the ambient light is high, creating a proper exposure along with vivid colors in the water.

“There is a fifteen-minute period of time where the sun peaks over the mountain, creating bright, golden reflections. I have yet to find another area where the light hits the waves the right way.”

Not Everyday is a Potential Shooting Day

Before sunrise Orias will head to Ventura Beach to check for tide tables and wave heights.

“Fall and winter are ideal for capturing the best waves. In a typical photo session I might shoot 400-500 frames. Of those, thirty I might process and out of those I might find 1-10 that are interesting and different enough to add to my portfolio”

The Technique

A telephoto 600mm lens (standard surfing photog lens) is used, which allows Orias to shoot more parallel to the shore, adding curl and crest in the waves. He currently uses a Canon 5D Mark III along with an f4 1.4x teleconverter to capture these interesting shots.

The exposure in the initial image is brought all the way to the right on the meter so that the original Raw file appears bland and bright. The photos are then edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. Common adjustments include: dropped exposure, added contrast, increased white balance, saturation boost, and dodging of the wave mist.

Recently, Orias has been interested in adding pelicans into the mix:

Check out more of Orias’s work here:

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

A Perfect Moment (Via picturecorrect.com)

I found this on picturecorrect.com and it is worth sharing... Check it out:

Zak Noyle, a world class surf photographer, has made his way to into our hearts already, and the photograph below only goes to show why. His photographic eye doesn’t fail him, even when faced with one of the most dangerous surf breaks known to man. Taken while on a surf trip to Teahupoo, Tahiti to film a documentary on himself, Noyle managed to capture this stunning image of surfer, Christian Redongo, which ended up earning Noyle the cover of Surfer Magazine as well as a their Photograph of the Year award:

“A Perfect Day” Via SurferMag (Click for Larger Size)

Noyle shoots with a Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, which is housed in a safe water proof housing. The housing has a small pole attached to it to serve as a handle of sorts, making the rig more manageable while swimming in the ocean.

“ It wasn’t huge, but I saw that rainbow forming. I was shooting fisheye, and I was quite close in, so I kind of kicked back toward the channel and framed it up like that. It was just a quick moment, it only lasted for two waves, and it just happened to be a setup.”

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens Review by Bryan Carnathan

Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens Review

The-Digital-Picture.com gives the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens an overall 4.5 rating

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by Bryan Carnathan
Review Date: 2004-04-05
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The Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens is currently one of Canon's two intentionally distorted EF lenses.

The heavy barrel distortion from the 15 Fisheye creates a special effect that is liked by most people (until it is over-used of course). With digital capture, we can now use fisheye-to-rectilinear conversion software to create a corrected picture equivalent to what a 12-13mm rectilinear lens would yield. This is great - but it takes some extra post-processing work and requires some knowledge of what the end-result will look like when capturing the shot.

PTLens is a really easy to use (Low $) rectilinear conversion software program (or Photoshop Plugin) based on Panorama Tools (included and free). Photoshop's lens correction tools can also rectilinear-convert the fisheye distortion. The downside to rectilinear conversion is that the image corners become soft. Reducing the image to 70% or less allows much of the corner sharpness to be recovered at the expense of the pixel size of the image.

Build quality of the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens is reasonable. The metal mount shows it is not a bottom of the line lens. The focus ring feels relatively low quality, but this lens does not cost a fortune either.

Pictured above from left to right are the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens, Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L USM Lens, Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens and Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Lens. Below are the same lenses (sans the 14mm L I) with their lenses hoods in place.

Canon Ultra Wide Angle Lens Comparison - With Hoods

The size of the 15 Fisheye is very small - and very nice. It is much smaller than the Canon EF 14mm L USM Lens, Canon EF 16-35mm L USM Lens or Canon EF 17-40mm L USM Lens.

The 15 Fisheye focuses moderately slowly and makes a loud buzzing doing so. Reality is that fast focusing is not very important to most people using this lens. A lens this wide does not need to adjust much to go from close to infinity. FTM (Full Time Manual) focus is not available. The manual focus ring is coarse - not smooth.

Along the same lines, the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens only has 5 aperture blades. This creates undesirable 5-pointed out-of-focus highlights. But, this lens is so wide that it is hard to get the background out of focus. So, this negative point is probably not important to most people either.

When I think of a highly distorted lens, I would expect the most distorted areas of the picture to be of lower quality. But that is not the case with the15 Fisheye. This lens has very nice image quality.

Close subjects tend to be soft at f/2.8 and become steadily sharper through f/8. Distant subjects were sharp wide open and improved little with the lens stopped down. What was most noticeable to me was the relatively excellent corner sharpness even on a full-frame body. The Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens easily bests the Canon EF 14mm L USM Lens, the Canon EF 16-35mm L USM Lens and the Canon EF 17-40mm L USM Lens for corner sharpness. At least until it is converted to rectilinear.

Vignetting is apparent at f/2.8, but less apparent than most of the alternatives. Vignetting disappeared quickly as the lens was stopped down.

Flare is moderately well controlled on the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens. For flare, it was much better than the Canon EF 14mm L USM Lens but not as good as the Canon EF 16-35mm L USM Lens.

In harsh/heavy contrast conditions (such as dark tree branches against a bright cloudy sky), CA (Chromatic Aberration) is a problem. It was generally not a problem in my real life shots, but very present under certain conditions.

Like the Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens, the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens features a convex objective lens (yes - both the objective lens and the pictures it takes look like fish eyes) and a fixed metal petal type lens hood. Gelatin filters inserted into the rear of the lens are the only filters that can be used on this lens.

Standard screw-in protective UV filters can not be used on this lens. Nor can any other screw-in filters for that matter. A special lens cap is required to protect this lens and hood. Canon supplies a nicely manufactured metal cap that slips on over the hood. A fuzzy material on the inner sides of the cap protects the sides of the hood from scratching and gives it some adhesion to the lens. Unfortunately, it falls off far too easily. Canon has solved this problem on the 14mm L II.

Color and saturation both are fine.

Canon EF Ultra-Wide Angle Lens Perspective Comparison

The 15 Fisheye includes more in the picture than the other two f/2.8 ultra wide angle lenses Canon currently makes - the Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens and the Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM Lens. These images were taken with a 1.3x FOVCF DSLR body. Here is a full frame (Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III) focal length comparison.

Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens Focal Length Review

15mm Fisheye | 14mm | 17mm | 24mm

The Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens' angle of view is so wide that getting adequate flash coverage can be a problem. Expect to minimally need a flash with a built-in flip-down diffuser to cover the frame on a 1.3x or 1.6x FOVCF body. A Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce Diffuser will yield complete flash coverage on all bodies. Bouncing the flash may provide adequate coverage as well.

What is the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens used for? Nearly anything that requires an ultra wide angle lens. Similar to the rectilinear ultra wide angle lenses, the 15 Fisheye is useful for wide landscapes, wide day or night sky shots and Interior pictures of houses, vehicles and other confined spaces.

The fish-eye look is appealing as a special effect as well. It invites creativity. With an 8" minimum focusing distance, the 15 Fisheye can create some wild-looking effects. Remember to keep your feet out of the picture.

Architecture and real estate photography often have large subjects and require wide angle lenses - these are more good uses for the 15 Fisheye if distortion is acceptable - or removed.

I am impressed with the image quality from a lens this wide. If you don't mind the severe distortion or are willing to post-process the distortion out, the Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye Lens will make a very nice wide angle lens for you.

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