Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz is a world-renowned surfing spot and there were some nice sets coming through there this afternoon.
There were about 6 photographers lined up shooting this afternoon and I was the only one using a Nikon. Even worse, there were two of 'em with 500mm lenses so I had to suffer lens inferiority as well. :lol:
Anyway, I'm reasonably pleased with the results. However, I did make a mistake of using center-weighted metering for many of the shots. I'd read someone on DPR some time ago complaining/suggesting that center-weighted often resulted in underexposed shots and that's also what seemed to happen to me today. Oh well, push the EV up in NC and they're okayish.
Funny thing is when I got home, Ron's ebook had arrived and was waiting for me. Now I'll just have to immerse myself in it, but I couldn't resist processing these shots quickly in my usual fashion, just to see what they looked like.
But that's enough rabbiting on, you didn't come here to read my drivel, you came here to see my drivel, ummm no, that's not right, I hope...
Hmmm, well while I sort that out here's some shots:
Oh and the first and last ones weren't cropped at all. That's the great advantage of Steamer Lane - the cliff basically overlooks the surfers.
All comments and suggestions welcome as always. Thanks for lasting to the end of this post.
Neil
There were about 6 photographers lined up shooting this afternoon and I was the only one using a Nikon. Even worse, there were two of 'em with 500mm lenses so I had to suffer lens inferiority as well. :lol:
Anyway, I'm reasonably pleased with the results. However, I did make a mistake of using center-weighted metering for many of the shots. I'd read someone on DPR some time ago complaining/suggesting that center-weighted often resulted in underexposed shots and that's also what seemed to happen to me today. Oh well, push the EV up in NC and they're okayish.
Funny thing is when I got home, Ron's ebook had arrived and was waiting for me. Now I'll just have to immerse myself in it, but I couldn't resist processing these shots quickly in my usual fashion, just to see what they looked like.
But that's enough rabbiting on, you didn't come here to read my drivel, you came here to see my drivel, ummm no, that's not right, I hope...
Hmmm, well while I sort that out here's some shots:

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Oh and the first and last ones weren't cropped at all. That's the great advantage of Steamer Lane - the cliff basically overlooks the surfers.
All comments and suggestions welcome as always. Thanks for lasting to the end of this post.
Neil