Newport Beach, California.
A 4 second long exposure turned the waves into a soft blur on this stormy evening. You can see Catalina Island on the horizon.
Dana Point
Dana Point, California.
I meet up with Richard Wong for fun a evening of photography down in the cool Orange County coastal town of Dana Point.
Mission Bay, San Diego, California
This is looking down on the roller coaster in Mission Beach, in the mid ground is Mission Bay, and further out is downtown San Diego, California.
Last week I got a phone call from fellow photographer Phil Colla offering to split the cost of a helicopter charter flight over San Diego. I jumped at the opportunity! I love flying and photographing from a helicopter; you can pretty much go anywhere you want, and most importantly, you can do so with the doors removed. This is really important, as you often need to use a polarizer to cut the haze, and polarizers add funky rainbows for some reason when you use them through Plexiglas. Not to mention, shooting through Plexiglas is a great way to end up with soft photos, so doors removed is the only way to go.
Well thanks to the Santa Ana off-shore winds, we had wonderful clear conditions – I ended up with a lot of images of the area to add to our existing coverage of San Diego photos.
Brett Simpson Wins Katin Pro/Am
The finals of the Katin Pro/Am in Huntington Beach, California were amazing as the surfers continued to throw down huge tricks as they out did each other. Above is a 9 frame sequence that caputures Brett Simpson’s winning wave as he came from behind to win the title. I wish I could have had a lower perspective, this was shot from above on the pier, and the high perspective tends to minimize the appearance of just how high he was on the maneuver. What I thought was cool, but may not be visible in the small version I posted here – in the second to last photo where Brett is completing the landing, he already has a huge smile on his face.
Here are a couple more photos of the Katin Pro/Am.
Katin Pro/Am
The 14 year old surfer Kolohe Andino emerging from the "green room" during the Katin Pro/Am surf tournament, Huntington Beach, California. His young age and amazing abilities have already earned him appearances on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The surfing conditions have remained great, and the addition of some of the best surfers in the world thanks to the Katin Pro/Am surf competition keep me busy. Watching such phenomenal surfing was a real treat! I may have to go back for the finals today. Here is a post of the winner of the Katin Pro/Am.
Below is surfing vetran Rob Machado who has twice finished ranked number three in the world.
Rob Machado
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Surfing
With big waves hitting Southern California yesterday, I had to go to the place known as Surf City USA – Huntington Beach, California!
Water is one place that seems to consistently fool in-camera meters. What I usually do when photographing around water is switch to manual mode. Here, I set my ISO at 400 because I needed the speed. I then set my aperture wide-open, which was 5.6 with my lens, because again, I needed maximum light. I have my camera set to blink when I over-expose and blow out any whites, so I began trying different shutter speeds until I blew out the whites, and then increased the shutter speed just slightly until I didn’t have any “blinkers” , in this case, 2,000th of a second. This method gives me the maximum possible exposure, so that the surfer doesn’t turn to a black blob, and yet the whites don’t get blown out and lose detail.
Had my shutter speed been a number below 1,000 – I would have increased my ISO setting a little more in order to get a bit higher shutter speed to help freeze the action.
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