Surfing

This was my first time shooting surfing C+C I like how the other surfer adds a sureal affect to this image...

While I was out there a magazine asked me to get some shots for them too... I submited other photos to them yesterday...

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Basically mate, I'm seeing a lot of grain, non-punchy colours and either a soft 100-400 or a slight mis-focus.
Framing leaves much to be desired, as the surfer sits squarely in the middle of the picture and is basically doing nothing. You can't see the wave at all, which isn't good considering surfing is all about waves. But by the looks of that we're not missing much Surfing is also about surfers, and so you should try to show their faces as much as possible.
Positives would be you've got good timing. The surfer is actually doing something and doesn't look like he's standing there. The horizon is also level.
In future shoot in manual mode, and drop the f-stop way down. f/11 and 1/1000 is forcing you to up the ISO, and I'm guessing you were shooting JPEG by the amount of noise present in the sky. f/5.6-8 and a shutter speed no slower than about 6-800 will help in future if you're having ISO troubles.

Yes I was shooting Jpeg and 800 iso at 1000 and f 11 I think a lot of the noise in the background is from it being very foggy in the distance and a lot of is from me reducing the size dramatically so I can post it on here...

Here is the original shrunk down and a crop of the original too. Thanks for your coments keep them coming...

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Ohh that is very sharp by my manual-focus standards. The resize must have messed it up. Dunno what I was thinking, saying it's OOF at f/11. You can't be that bad

I agree there is a lot of noise, I will have to try a lower ISO and the RAW. It was very hard getting the shots here these were taken after 5:00 so the sun was getting low in the sky and in some of them it was behind the mountains already. I still have a lot to learn about Digital and this was the first time I have taken any surfing photos...

A good little trick for when the sun is getting low is to expose for the colourful sky and go for arty-type silhouettes and reflections, etc, rather than trying to coax a proper exposure out of the darkest thing in the frame.

That's one severly compressed JPEG! Look at the sky.

manutd101 wrote in post #6271853
That's one severly compressed JPEG! Look at the sky.

I think it was due a lot to the haze / fog and shooting a 400 the original was shot with minimal compression yet still has the noise but the surfer has very little noise when you look at him.

Tozankyaku wrote in post #6272471
I think it was due a lot to the haze / fog and shooting a 400 the original was shot with minimal compression yet still has the noise but the surfer has very little noise when you look at him.

No, look at the second set of posted pics...blockies!