Tag: inspiration
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Stab Mag – Photo Lyfe – Quinn Matthews
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 […]
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The Inertia Surf Portfolio Challenge 2013
I’ve not put up many posts about The Inertia, the last one was actually a best of round up from 2012, so this it’s almost a tradition to highlight their yearly highlights from the surf photography world. http://www.theinertia.com/surf/the-inertia-surf-portfolio-challenge-2013/ This time it’s in the form of a competition, you get to vote for the best photographer […]
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Transworld Surf No Longer a Print Magazine
Fairly recently there was a bit of a merger in the print world which meant Surfer, Surfing and Transworld Surf were all owned my grind media, the news broke a couple of days ago that they would not be continuing to print Transworld surf, it will remain as a website. http://business.transworld.net/134084/features/grindmedia-to-stop-printing-transworld-surf/ It’s not that surprising […]
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Todd Glaser Interview – Hit and Run
An interview with Todd Glaser about the July cover of Surfer Magazine, a fisheye shot at Teahupoo of Craig Anderson: http://www.surfermag.com/blogs/photo-blog/hit-and-run/ In the short interview he explains how Craig Anderson is riding a single fin, not a thruster, and it knocked his dome port underwater, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the […]
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18 Seconds Magazine number 17: Nate Smith Feature
The latest issue of on line surf magazine 18 seconds is out, read it here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a174b03c#/a174b03c/1 I’ve had a quick browse, my favourite bits include a snippet from page 35/36 featuring surf photographer Ed Sloane writing about shooting photo’s in the Australian state of Victoria, it sounds quite a lot like the UK for variety […]
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Le Boogie Photographer of the Year
I’m a little behind on this one, Le Boogie magazine had some cool interviews with the top three photographers of the year, as voted by other photographers, I recommend reading them all but I’ve pulled out my favourite Q&A’s here: 1: Luke Shadbolt Have the last few weeks been enjoyable? I’ve been hanging in Ireland […]
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Todd Glaser Interview
http://jamiesincrediblejournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/photography-interview-todd-glaser.html I just had a quick read of the Todd Glaser interview on Jamie Goodsell’s blog, I recommend having a look via the link above. Then have a look at Jamie Goodsell’s website, there are some great portraits on there, I’ll be having more of a look later on. The most interesting bit for me […]
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Morgan Maassen – Surf Sufficient
I was sent this link on the learningsurfphotography facebook page so I’m just having a watch on my lunch break, it features an awesome slide show of images from photographer Morgan Maassen, with a voice over explaining some technical and creative aspects of shooting in the water. It’s a must watch if you want to […]
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Clark Little Flash Shorebreak Photography
This is an awesome shot of Clark Little shooting a shorebreak with his housing mounted flash. I’m pretty sure it’s a still from video, it was shot with a GoPro Hero 2, you can see more on the Clark Little photography facebook page. Last weekend I was testing out my back button focus with my […]
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Todd Glaser’s New Website
Todd Glaser has a new website with some pretty epic surf photography on it, see it here: tglaser.4ormat.com/ I would definitely recommend having a browse for some inspiration, there’s plenty of images I recognise from adverts and spreads, there’s even one that I’ve got on a T-shirt (the one above, on a KS10 tee). One […]
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Surfer Magazine – Danger Close – War/Surf Photographer Guillermo Cervera
www.surfermag.com/features/danger-close-2/ This article/interview featuring Guillermo Cervera is definitely worth a read, coincidentally I was chatting recently to a friend who often travels to extreme destinations (check out miserabletravels.tumblr.com). We chatted about surf photography and his techniques for getting photo’s in difficult situations, I’m not sure how well technique crosses over really but the attitude required […]
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Nikon Surf Photo of The Year 2013
Nikon Surf Photo of the year 2013 These are the top 20 finalists in the Nikon Surf Photo of the Year which will be announced at the Australian Surfing Awards in Sydney on 20th February, 2013. The award is for the best single surfing-themed image taken during 2012. While the image must be taken by […]
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Jeremy Koreski’s New Website
Have a browse of Jeremy Koreski’s new website, especially the surf gallery: jeremykoreski.com I first saw the link on Jeremy Koreski’s instagram feed, I recommend following him for some amazing photography, nearly all from icy cold environments, Canada mostly I think, including some great surf shots but also the best fishing photo’s I’ve seen too. […]
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Behind the Cover With Nate Tyler
Hear the story of Surfer Magazines latest cover, shot by Morgan Maassen, of Nate Tyler in France, this video actually offers much more of an insight into Nate’s lifestyle than the cover itself but it’s well shot and does reveal that he hadn’t even seen the photo at the time it was shot. I find […]
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Paul Fenrich’s Nazare Post
paulfenrich: There have been a lot of photos floating about this week from the monster swell hitting Praia do Norte, Nazaré in Portugal. These two pics show something with interests me a lot… Background compression when shooting at a long focal length. Wide angle lenses increase distances from subject to background, telephotos compress, making shots like these dramatic and compelling. Pics […]
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Surf Photography Inspiration – Top 5: Non Surf Related
Sometimes you don’t want to be bombarded by surf images, over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to expand my pool of inspirational and instructional resources to see what they can bring to my surf photography. Whatever you’re interested in this list should offer at least a few ideas to keep you improving. 1: […]
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Best of the Best 2012
Here are a couple of time killing end of year features that you will find interesting if you’re learning surf photography like me, it’s always nice to get some inspiration for the new year, personally I’m going to try something a little bit new for tomorrows dawny session. Surfer Magazine’s best photo’s of 2012 There […]
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Inspiration – Movement Magazine Issue 41
I just received the last ever issue of Movement magazine, it’s got a hard cover and has some great features. The one that will be most interesting to anyone learning surf photography will be the first part of the evolution of a revolution article. Movement Issue 41 from Movement Magazine on Vimeo. In it some […]
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Russel Ord Documentary Teaser
This video is a teaser for a possible future documentary on Russel Ord, in it he comes across as a bit of a lunatic who is not satisfied with taking average surf photo’s and wants to risk his life to take ridiculous shots in mental waves. It sounds pretty entertaining and you can donate to […]
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Surf Photography Inspiration – Top 5: Photo Websites
If you’re after some feedback on your own surf photo’s, or just some inspiration, these are my top 5 sites for trainee surf photographers. 1: Flickr I sense quite a lot of snobbery around peoples view of Flickr, it’s definitely got a lot of average photo’s on it, I pretty much use it as an […]
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Chris Burkard Video Profile
Chris Burkard talks about his surf photography, some good video of him shooting in the water, it definitely highlights the ability of the surfers. At some point I will be posting a top 5 Youtube videos which also features Chris Burkard. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Book Review – Flying Through The Clouds: Surf Photography of Jim Russi
After posting about my top 5 inspirational books and magazines for anyone learning surf photography I did a bit of searching for other books that might be worth a read, Jim Russi’s Flying through the clouds seemed like a popular one so I treated myself to a copy. First off – it’s not got any […]
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Surfer Magazine: Mangalore Lensman Feature
I happened to be checking out Taylor Steele’s new DVD double disc special featuring Sipping Jetstreams and Castles in the Sky today at work, I’ve seen Castles in the sky and was pretty impressed with the India section, this article on Surfer Magazine’s web site has some more background to the spots they surf and […]
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Surf Photography Inspiration – Top 5: Books & Magazines
I started surfing before the internet, it was rubbish, it’s better now, but I did get used to magazines, books and videos being the only form of surf media I could consume. One night George Greenough’s Crystal Voyager was on Channel 4 and my friends dad taped it, we watched it about 20 times, The […]
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Trent Mitchell’s Website
I just saw a link to Trent Mitchell’s website, it’s very slick with a nice portfolio of great photo’s, it looks like it was launched on the 9th of November according to the first blog post. The second post in the blog is really interesting to me because of the images used, it shows the […]
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Vert Magazine Digital Issue
I’m always on the lookout for some inspiration and having visited Portugal a few times for surf trips I know Vert bodyboarding magazine is a quality production with some great photo’s. They have just released a digital copy on Issuu, a web publishing platform which also has an Android (and probably Ios) App, so I’ll […]
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Surfer Magazine’s Behind the Lens
I do like a good photo feature that is told form the photographers perspective, this series on the Surfer Magazine website features their staff photographers describing their experiences on photo trips. The first features Todd Glaser talking about Mexico: http://www.surfermag.com/features/behind-the-lens/ I was a little disappointed that it wasn’t a bit more technical, I understand that […]
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Surf Photography Inspiration – Top 5: Instagram
Think back to the first surf photo that you stared at and thought, I want to take a photo like that. That’s what myInspiring Top 5’s posts are about, finding the photographs that make you want to get out there and create your own. I will add some more top 5 lists in different categories, […]