How I Got the Shot: Justine Dupont’s rear gets covered (via http://www.grindtv.com)

Justine Dupont; photo courtesy of Laurent Pujol

December 23, 2013 by GRINDTV

For this week’s “How I Got the Shot,” geared up and weighted down, photographer Laurent Pujol takes a shot that only a pro can handle.

Name: Laurent Pujol
Age: 41
Hometown: Capbreton, France
Bio: After a 20-year career in pro surfing, Pujol jumped to the other side of the lens and now documents (mostly) his friends.
Who: Justine Dupont
Where: Hossegor, France
Why: I went to Billabong Europe with the idea to do this shot with Justine Dupont; fortunately they were all over it. I’ve been working on this particular camera angle for some time, and have been slowly perfecting it. It’s tricky because my D3 wrapped in water housing is heavy gear to manage while surfing a wave—a lot heavier than a GoPro, and the alignment has to be just right. I usually suit up in a helmet and flotation device and when things get dicey, I bail, holding on to my camera with everything I have—ducking housing has its own set of challenges. This was just up the beach during the Quiksilver Pro in Hossegor, France, this year—we shot it on the best day they got. I remember getting some good cracks in on the first few waves, and then we got two crazy lock-ins in a row. I took the shot.
What the image was shot with: Nikon D3, 16 mm fisheye lens wrapped in a CMT water housing. The lighting this day was really nice and the camera was set at F/6.3, 1/1000 @ 200 ISO.
Magazine affiliation: Freelance
Facebook: laurentpujolphoto
Instagram: @pujol_laurent_photographie

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

By Darcy Wheeler · April 30, 2013

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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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.”

Test Driving my Canon 7D with a High Surf Advisory on 12-1-12... By Eric Cedeno

I took my Canon 7D out for a test drive at the beach. Wow that a fast shutter speed! I'm really happy with it. I know I need to spend more time figuring out how to use all the setting to maximize the quality, but for a foggy , drizzling high surf advisory morning I think I did ok.

Topaz 12-1-12 Photo By Eric Cedeno

Check out the pictures (Click here)

Canon 7D / Go Pro - More Surf Video's

Check out these cool surf video's:

Canon 7D Surf Video 2011

Uploaded by shadowknight321 on May 30, 2011

http://www.jungphoto.com
A short surf video I filmed on a Canon 7D, Surfer is Ryan Franz, who surfs for Nation Surfboards.

Shot with Go Pro HD @ 60 fps
Shot with Canon 7D 720 60 fps
Lens: Canon 300 L MM with 1.4 X

Music: Intro by xx

Check out Nation MFG at:
http://nationmfg.blogspot.com/

Canon 7D 60p - Morning Surf

Uploaded by BeanpoleProductions on Mar 30, 2010

Another test video with the Canon 7D. Shot at 60 frames with a Canon 24-105mm IS f4L lens. Edited with Final Cut and graded with Colour.

Canon 7D test - High Surf Warning Hawaiian Islands August 30, 2011

Uploaded by tikiman834 on Aug 31, 2011

A day meant to learn and explore new Canon 7D turned out to be real time picture/video opportunity.
High surf warning was issued today on all Hawaiian islands as 15 foot waves roll in.
Spent my lunch break at Kewalo basin taking pictures and video.
Left camera settings as is and started shooting.

Canon 7d Water Shots: Skimboarding in Laguna

Uploaded by LevinMedia on Jan 24, 2011

Tommy D graciously loaned me his water housing. Here are a few shots of Andy Chiavetta and Matthieu Thibaud trading waves at Aliso.

Canon 7D - North Shore in Slow Motion

I just picked up a Canon 7D yesterday and now I'm really hooked. I'm so hooked that I started this blog so that I don't start taking over my surf blog http://nobadtides.blogspot.com/. I did a little searching on Youtube and found this awesome video. I'm looking forward to one day shooting a video like this one- check it out:

North Shore in Slow Motion - Canon 7D 1000 FPS

Uploaded by devinsupertramp on Mar 23, 2011

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Film was made by Devin Graham.

To contact me about potential freelance jobs/feature film work, contact me by email here.
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Stephen Anderson wrote the music score that was used in this video. You can download the song on iTunes in the link below.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/countyourblessings/id416849235?i=416849293
The song from this video is called "Count Your Blessings", it's from a old Christian hymn that Stephen did his own rendition of.
You can also contact him here.

http://www.stephenjanderson.com

The main surfer in the video is Andy Pierce. Evan Fa is one of the body boarders in the video as well.

On a technical note:
The entire video was shot on a Canon 7D, all in 720P, at 60fps (frames per second).

I used a couple different Canon lenses to shoot this, they were...
Canon 70-200 F/2.8
Canon 100-400 F/4/5.6
Canon 2X III Extender (this makes the lens when it is at 400mm, become 800 mm's. It does loose some quality, but it's not very noticeable.)

The entire video was shot all on the North Shore, at Pipeline, and Waimea for the big waves.

To get the "super slow motion", after I filmed at 60fps, I through it into the program "After Effects". I used an effect that comes with the program called "Time Warp". This allowed me to make the 60fps, to 1000fps. The way this works is the computer processes/adds frames in between the frames that are already in existence. It took several days for the computer to process the clips into the super slow motion that appears as well, so it does take a lot out of the computer, as far as processing goes.

Another similar program that does something similar to this slow motion effect, is a program called "Twixtor". It's another great program that is very similar, however you have to buy it as a separate plugin, and it is a little expensive, but if you do a lot of slow motion, it's totally worth it :)

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