Category: Surf Photography Video Course
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Free Online Surf Photography Course
The Learning Surf Photography Course is now available for free, over 9 hours of video content across all areas of surf photography in bite size sections
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Find Your Ideal Surf Photography Kit – Introduction
The first thing you need to do is find the right kit for the type of photos you want to take. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on any purchase you make that goes […]
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Find the Surf Photographs You Want to Take
Use this technique to identify which types of surf photograph you want to take so you can narrow down the best equipment and techniques for your style./
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The Best Lenses for Surf Photography
The Best lenses depend on the type of surf photos you want to take, and often the camera system you’re using to take your surf photographs
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The Best Cameras For Surf Photography
Learn about the best cameras for different types of surf photography, whether you want to shoot in the water, from the land, stills or video.
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Quick Start Settings for Surf Photography
Settings for Surf Photography can be tricky to figure out, this lesson gives you some rules of thumb to start getting great photos without using auto mode
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Shutter Speed in Surf Photography
Shutter Speed for Surf Photography will really help get the style of surf photo you want, whether that’s crisp action shots or dreamy long exposures
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Aperture for Surf Photography
Aperture for surf photography is critical for getting photos that match your creative vision, learn how to control the depth of field with aperture
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ISO for Surf Photography
To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on any purchase you make that goes towards the upkeep of the website. See all 50+ videos that make up the Learning Surf Photography Course here Free Online […]
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Focus Modes for Surf Photography
Focus modes are an important part of getting a sharp, in focus surf photo. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on any purchase you make that goes towards the upkeep of the website. See […]
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What You Need to Know About Equivalence for Surf Photography
Equivalence can be hard to understand, but this lesson will tell you all you need to know for surf photography. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on any purchase you make that goes towards […]
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Working With Surfers
Working with surfers can improve and re-invigorate your surf photography better than anything else, here are my tips on working with surfers to get the best out of your surf photography. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make […]
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Minimum Shutter Speed in Aperture Priority
Minimum shutter speed is a great setting to make sure you get sharp photos whist still opening up creative options for aperture settings, this lesson shows you how to use it and why it works so well for surf photography. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase […]
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Land Surf Photography Introduction
The most common way people start taking surf photos is from the land. If you’re interested in pursuing this more seriously, then this video series will go through some of the basics and provide some rules of thumb that I would recommend following when taking surf photos from the land to get the best […]
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Basic Angles for Surf Photography From the Land
Angles for surf photography make the difference between an average shot and a great shot, get some tips on where to take photos from and how to mix it up. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a […]
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Long Lenses for Surf Photography
Long lenses are essential for capturing surf action from the beach. They allow you to zoom in on the surfers and get close-up shots of their moves. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on […]
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Tripods, Monopods and Hand Held Shooting
When shooting surf photography, you have three main options for supporting your camera: tripods, monopods, and handheld. Each option has its own advantages and disadvantages, so it’s important to choose the right one for the situation. To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my […]
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Water Surf Photography Gear Introduction
Raw Transcript I love taking surf photos in the water that’s one of my favorite types of surf photography and if you haven’t done that before or even if you’re starting out in that process now this course is going to be really valuable to you because it’s going to go through the gear that […]
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Which Port to Use For Surf Photography
Which Port to Use For Surf Photography depends on the lens your using and the type of photo you’re trying to take. Make the right choice with this lesson
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Pistol Grips and Leashes for Surf Photography
Raw Transcript pistol grips as I’ve explained are one of the essential parts of a surf water housing so there’s lots of different types here’s is an old Aquatech one for instance shutter button goes in there this is the see frogs see frog salted line pistol grip and this is the liquid I see […]
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Water Shooting Essentials
Raw transcript other essential items for shooting sir photos in the water are a set of swim fins which are short flippers that you put on your feet and they really help you swim a lot better especially if you’re holding something in your hands like a water housing and and you might also want […]
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Personal Flotation for Surf Photography
Raw Transcripts if you’re shooting with a longer lens in the water now I’d say probably beyond the normal zoom range so maybe an 85 male equivalent or telephoto like 70 to 200 something like that then generally you want to be sitting on something in the water that keeps you afloat so I personally […]
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Water Surf Photography – Technique Introduction
Raw Transcript taking surf photos in the water is my favorite type of surf photography and there are a lot of techniques and a lot of types of shot which I’ve gone and developed through trial and error over the last couple of decades almost of taking this type of photos and video and there’s […]
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Dry Port Technique for Surf Photography
Learn how to prevent water drops appearing on your flat ports when shooting in the water.
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Wet Port Technique for Surf Photography
Raw transcript this videos about the wet port technique for keeping water drops from sticking to the front of your dome ports so I did say gonna be a little bit gross again there’s there’s probably only one real technique that people use for this you haven’t got many alternatives so if you’re a bit […]
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Positioning for Surf Photography in the Water
Raw Transcript another area that a lot of people asked about when I asked them what they wanted to see in this course is positioning in the water now it does obviously depend a lot on what kind of lens were using so I’m going to run through the probably the three commonest lenses that […]
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Fisheye Techniques for Surf Photography
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Underwater Surf Photography
Raw Transcript one of my favorite types of surf photography is underwater surf photography and it’s also one of the more popular topics which people like yourself wanted me to discuss so I’m going to do my best I’m not the the best underwater photography it’s something I’m learning myself it’s definitely one of the […]
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Over Under, 50/50 or Split Photos for Surf Photography
Raw Transcript I get quite a lot of questions about over-under they’re also called 50/50 or split style photos since I first got hold of one of the earliest GoPro dome ports I’ve been trying to develop the process of getting these over/under self split shots and there’s quite a bit of information out there […]
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Creative Surf Photography Introduction
Raw Transcript this is the section where we get a bit more creative we break some of the rules that we set out right at the start you know basics section and we do that because we want to see a different look something out of the ordinary hopefully something that’s going to bring an […]
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Basic Composition Tips for Surf Photography
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Make the Most of the Light for Surf Photography
Raw Transcript one of the most important factors of any photograph is the light in the scene and it’s true that the quality of light differs hugely throughout the day and even from minute to minute as various different things happen so a Sur photographers we’re nearly always outside and we’re kind of at the […]
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Long Exposure Surf Photography
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Close Up Surf Photography
To support the learningsurfphotography.com site and keep it advert free, consider making your next purchase from Amazon using my affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3SFoa4O I make a small commission on any purchase you make that goes towards the upkeep of the website. See all 50+ videos that make up the Learning Surf Photography Course here Free Online […]
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Photographing Small Waves
Raw Transcript small waves probably not the most inspiring subject for most surf photographers but it can offer you the opportunity to practice the same techniques you’re going to use when the waves get bigger and the surfers all come out to surf them in a really safe environment and in an environment where you […]
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An Introduction to Surf Flash Photography
Raw Transcript something quite a few people asked me to talk about was flash photography for surfing so it’s something that I’ve experimented with quite a bit but I haven’t I definitely say I’m an expert and I definitely wouldn’t say that I’ve got to a point where I’m really happy with my setup and […]
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Shallow Depth of Field With a Macro Lens
Raw Transcript one of the types of shots that you might see every now and then is an incredibly shallow depth of field quite usually it is quite an abstract style shot and it’s of the surface of the water might be the Sun in the background or there might just be nice colors in […]
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An Introduction to Post Processing Surf Photos
Raw Transcript one of the most subjective areas of surf photography is in post-processing and if you handed the same file of a surf photo to three different surfer talk refers you might well get back three completely different looking images it’s one of those things where you you’re you can put your own stamp […]
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Mobile Image Processing for Surf Photography
Raw Transcript in this video I’m going to run through the basics of water proofing your camera what you’re going to need to get your camera into the right situation in the water to get the right shot so we’ve been through the types of cameras that you might want to go for I’ll cover […]
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Introduction to Adobe Lightroom
Raw Transcript so this is the screen that greets you when you log into Adobe Lightroom this is a Toby Lightroom classic CC their latest desktop version they do have some different versions mainly Adobe Lightroom cc I’m not going to go into too much detail about the ins and outs of Lightroom the different […]
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Dawn SUP Surf Photography Post Processing
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Underwater SUP Surf Photography Post Processing
Raw Transcript we’ll look at an underwater shot now this was another shot from the photo shoot for red paddle board company so like I mentioned in the underwater video there the light falls off quite quickly underwater so I’m fairly deep in this one but you can still make out obviously the board you […]
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Remote Flash Surf Photography Post Processing
Raw Transcript our next image is a little bit different it’s a remote flash photo so let’s have a quick look at the stats it’s got a higher ISO than we’ve seen before so if ISO 1600 I might well introduce a bit of noise so we’ll look at that in a minute it’s got […]
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Underwater Wave Surf Photography Post Processing
Raw Transcript we got another underwater scene here this was taken with our talking at 10 to 17 milf ish I at 10 minutes wider setting we’ve got shutter speed one month on the second because there’s this action in this shot so if I go back to this one briefly this was 640 eighth […]
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New Zealand lineup Surf Photography Post Processing
Raw Transcript we’re going to look at a classic lineup shot now so I really like this this photo it’s brings back a lot of happy memories it was taken on my honeymoon in New Zealand so the Maori word for New Zealand is our taiaroa I’m almost certainly not pronouncing that right but one […]
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Close Up Black and White Surf Photography Post Processing
Raw Transcript we’ve got an example of our close-up photo now so if you’ve seen the close-up video in the course then you’ll have seen this one I’m going to show you how I got to my end result from here so it’s quite a close-up shot naturally it shot at one hundred and eighty […]
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Introduction to Sharing Your Surf Photos
Raw Transcript by this point hopefully you’ve got to the point where you’ve got lots of photos that you’re proud of that you really want to share with other people and that’s where this section of the course comes in so what I’m not going to be covering is social media to any extent the […]
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Getting Surf Photos Published
Raw Transcript having your surf photos published in a magazine is a goal of many surf photographer I think it’s becoming harder and harder mostly because the print industry is shrinking and the surf photography market is growing more people available fewer places to get them published so I’m again this is one of those […]
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Selling Surf Photographs to Surfers
Raw Transcript one of the topics I did wanna mention is earning money from your Sur photos by selling them to the people who are in them and it’s something I get asked questions about not huge amount of questions but fairly regularly I get questions from people who would like to try and do […]
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Printing Surf Photographs
Raw Transcript now I want to talk about printing your surf photos so you’ve got to the point where you shot them you’ve processed them and now you’re ready to print what I’ve got at home is a relatively small inexpensive printer is a Canon Pixma but there are lots and lots of different options […]