South Shore Surf Session

Haven't posted surf pic's here for the longest time. Here's some shots I took a couple of days ago. They're from Bowls and Kewalo's from the same afternoon.

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2, 5 annd 6 are excellent!

Roy Webber wrote in post #10673510
2, 5 annd 6 are excellent!

Thanks Roy. And may I take this opportunity to give you a hearty thumbs up on the surf shots you've been posting in this forum. I enjoy them alot.

There was a lot of action that afternoon and choosing which pic's to post was a problem. I burned through four eight gig CF cards in about 3 hours so I had a lot of reviewing to do. Also, I'm still finding my way around CS5 but live and learn as they say...

Love that last one!!!! great capture!! and gees! that dude is ripped

nice shots! Bowls looks sooo fun, look forward to paddling that spot soon!!
MORE SURF/BODYBOARD PLEASE POTN'ers!!!

NIIIIiiicccce pics. Been so long since we have seen surf here in Florida... feel like I live by a lake!

paddleout wrote in post #10715175
feel like I live by a lake!

feeling the same over here in Southern California (especially after last winter)....

it's all good, fall is coming soon!!!

five and six killer shots!

REALLY nice shots, Pho!

Y'all wanna know what a lake is like? Check out Texas in the summer.

Four is great, just get the SUP kooks outta there

Great shots!

I like number three the best, because he is doing the classic Bowls LB or BK move.

When I was about thirteen I went to a Swapmeet and found tons of Surfer Magazines from 1972-1976, and BK was all the rage, along with Larry Bertleman.

LB in particular had the total skate/surf approach to that wave (Ala Moana) and was just incredible.

One thing I miss most about those days was that a third of the photos in the magazine named the surfer as "unidentified".

In other words: Stoke counted for more than making a sponsor happy. A good shot was run, even if the surfer was a complete unknown.

Fat chance getting good South Shore shots into a mag these days. It's all about Pipe, Choopoo and the regular spots.

Ooops, sorry.

Great pics.

Wow, thanks for the kind words guys. I hope you had as much fun viewing the pic's as I had shooting them.

> mikekelley, LOL at the SUP comment.

> mikefairbanks, yeah, now that you mention it, I do recall those unidentified surfer shots from back then. In fact my cousin who's about 10 yrs. older than me was a regular contributor back then when magic island was just a dream in some urban planner's mind. If only I had kept my copies, I'd cherish them now. Good find on those mag's.

> MarkII, I've never been to the home of the yellow rose, but I do recall seeing some really nice surf shots awhile ago from around the Galveston area?

> silvex, thanks! Your surf shots are pro quality all the way. Keep posting'um up!

> Jaewhy, SOCAL had a really great winter/spring this past season, no? I remember all those huge storms way up north passing Hawaii by and hitting Cali head on with some really nice swells. Wish I were there then.

> paddleout, not to fear, you guys always seem to get some really nice surf every year from what I've been seeing in the surf mag's.

> chiangrai, thanks!

> tony rage, Isn't he though, that looks like one guy that I don't want to get run over by on my way out to the lineup.

Last is best, did you do any proccesing at all?

EGO_09_BOI wrote in post #10732760
Last is best, did you do any proccesing at all?

Thanks, It's also one of my faves from that afternoon.

Yes, I did PP those pic's, but mostly to get the shots decent looking on the web. The pic's lose a lot of sharpness and color depth when posting on websites, so I tend to compensate for that in CS5. I just get the shots to a point where I think it'll look as good as it's going to get on the web and cross my fingers from there on in.

Also, I jumped from CS2 to CS5, and messed around with LR, so the learning curve is still in play as you've probably noticed in the pic's I've posted.