The aim of this site is to document my process for improving my surf photography, I don’t tend to put up a lot of local session style galleries until I happen to be shooting somewhere well known with a lot of people in the water. If you’re here for surf photography tips head to the […]
Occasionally there is a run of swell that coincides nicely with one of the more popular spots in my area, and this past week I’ve been at Bantham before or after work most days, so here’s my Aquabumps style run down of the week of swell, I might try and do this each time I […]
I’ve let up on the posts recently but I’ve been working behind the scenes on some more interesting stuff, and to be honest, nothing’s really grabbed me on the every day front recently, I’ve bookmarked a few stories that were kind-of note worthy, but nothing grabbed me enough to take the time to make a […]
This subject was touched upon in a post from ages ago about Nazare in Portugal, site of several possibly record breaking big wave tow sessions, the type of perspective distortion we’re interested in here is compression distortion, it’s sometimes known as telephoto lens compression. Visit the links at the bottom of this post for some […]
I’m between DSLR’s at the moment, and there was a small swell with uncharacteristically nice weather this morning at a local beach, so I chucked my backup Panasonic GF1 and cheap kit lens in my bag in case there was a photo’ opportunity before the surf. There’s been a nice misty fog hanging around for […]
I learnt a few good lessons shooting yesterday, I’ll no doubt get around to writing up full posts on some of these subjects at some point, but here’s the top three lessons I will be taking away from the session. Take a test shot as soon as you load the housing – I got all […]
I wanted a simplified version of the manual control script I wrote for Magic Lantern, so I could use the live view button on the camera to allow me to change aperture in the water, on this version I just wanted control over aperture, not ISO, so I made it a bit simpler and as […]
I shot a bunch of photo’s on Friday last week, one of them is up on magicseaweed now, and a few more will feature in my forthcoming post about the new manual control script I used to make sure I got in focus shots from my 28mm f2.8 lens. But I also shot a whole […]
I shot this sequence ages ago during a very gloomy Bantham Dawny session, it features Matz Ginman-Trout doing an alley oop. This is my first go blending a surf sequence into a single image in Photoshop, it’s pretty tricky, I chose this bunch of images to try it out on because there’s a lot of […]
Any post which has Todays Lesson in the title is based on something I have learned on my most recent shoot, I am still learning a lot about photography, I even discover basic stuff that I probably should have picked up ages ago on a regular basis. Last time it was about setting the autofocus […]
I got up early this morning to go and take some photo’s at Bantham at sunrise, rather than rush in the morning I set up my camera in the housing the night before. The last few times I’ve used it I have been in manual focus with the wide angle lens, this time I knew […]
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