This 15 minute mini documentary is worth your time, Stab Magazine were one of the biggest fans of Laurent Pujol’s in the tube looking out/monkey on the back style of shot. If you want Mark’s using an SPL water housing with small dome port for a fisheye with a GoPro mounted on top (with a […]
This is pretty bonkers, I don’t know why it popped up on my feed recently as it was published on line in 2011 and in print in 2010 I think, but it’s pretty topical for me personally because I’ve been experimenting with flash again recently thanks to the extra long run of extra small swell […]
If you’re reading this website it probably means you’re relatively new to surf photography, like me, and in turn that means that I can almost guarantee you shoot with a digital camera. I don’t blame you, shooting with film is hard and expensive, digital is easy and cheap, it seems like there’s no sensible reason […]
There’s a new Photo Lyfe article on Stab Mag and it features young photographer Quinn Matthews. http://stabmag.com/photolyfe-quinn-matthews It’s worth a look for some inspiration, basically the photographers all answer the same questions with a photo, one of the images has featured on this site before, from way back in 2012 when it appeared in the […]
It isn’t the first iPhone shot I’ve seen sent directly from the line-up but it’s an interesting one, taken by photographer (and Quiksilver Marketing guy) Nic Dazet from the channel at Belharra (French big wave spot): http://stabmag.com/a-brief-update-from-the-channel-of-belharra/ It’s a shot of the back of a Canon 5D Mark III, that’s a £2200 camera body and […]
It’s the time of year for 1013 best of round-ups, and Stab Mag’s is a good one to browse through if you’re after some inspiration for surf photography. http://stabmag.com/the-25-best-full-frames-of-2013/ I like this one by Laserwolf in particular because you can see another photographer in the foreground (Could be Zak Noyle?) with what looks like a […]
I’ve had a couple of these bookmarked for a while but just saw the latest one (featuring Brian Bielman) had gone up, and thought I’d try and catch up so I can be on top of the next one when it hits. basically they ask a series of questions and the photographer answers with one […]
Here’s a quick one, a few videos have popped up on Stab Mag and other places recently which highlight the differences between GoPro self shot footage and more traditional angles. The latest one features Nathaniel Curran: Inner Views from Kyle MacLennan on Vimeo. Here’s Stab’s caption: We live in a time an age where anybody […]
This photo, taken by Ryan Miller and featured on Stab Mag, shows what an average day on the North shore of Hawaii is like for a water photographer, pretty hectic. http://stabmag.com/kelly-slater-vogue-at-backdoor-hawaii/ Kelly Slater and Photographers, Photo by Ryan Miller via Stab mag Notice the GoPro in Kellys hand (with what looks like a bobber handle […]
If you’ve been keeping up with the posts recently you will of seen the Kirstin Scholtz interview with surfcareers.com, which focused on her career in surf photography, well Stab Mag have just put out an interview with the ASP’s official photographer which covers a bit more ground, there’s a nice, more extensive photo gallery of […]
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