Crooked surf shot

How a little camera tilt can ruin a shot

Looks good to me, to be honest!?!

What's wrong, great shot

Is there anyway to fix it through rotation without taking out pieces of the wave?

It's a great shot. Surf photgraphy is extremely hard, and near impossible for someone who isn't a surfer (as the statue famously known as the Cardiff Kook proves---the artist claimed to be a surfer----yeah, right).

Obviously you are, in fact, a surfer to know that this was a good shot.

Have you considered attaching a level to your waterhousing? Do you have a built-in level?

By the way, I'm doing my best to identify the spot. I would think Blacks, but I don't remember trees on the cliff like that.

Is this Santa Cruz? I don't know SC well at all (only surfed there once, and it was at Cowell's, the longboard spot and I was on a borrowed board).

I grew up in San Diego.

Best I could do (and it's nothing). I stink at PP.

I bet somebody could make it work a lot better than I could with PP. Work with it. You might have something good there. My edit destroyed the surfer's and wave's features. Way too soft.

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Hey Mike,
It is actually in Bali, Bingin Bukit to be specific.
Nice Edit!

I have a ton of great shots from the trip,
i just wanted to see what people thought of the crooked "killed" perspective.

I try to never crop because in the water i can only afford a 20D, I detest losing IQ as a result of cropping.

Generally it is very easy to keep the camera somewhat level ( this is miles off) but i was avoiding getting hit by the surfer out of the frame

I have never worried about water shots being crooked... it is just a fact that it is gunna happen... especially when shooting FE... (fish eye)...

a tip which might help.. become ambidextrous... it helps with angles....

While it's a bit too crooked for my tastes, it's not bad by any means. Honestly I like the tilt - just not that much. A flat/leveled image wouldn't work for me.