Surfing nugs

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little swell this week, i got just for fun pics, lil waves, decent i guess-

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/backwindow/IMG_0985.jpg-just a lil out of focus :(

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/backwindow/IMG_0996.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/backwindow/IMG_0984.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/backwindow/IMG_1000.jpg

xt-sigma 70-300.

[Steve Cavigliano]

BW,
A beautiful day and you captured some nice action :thumb

I'd suggest you do a bit of P/P on them though. The colors are washed out because they are a little over exposed. Levels (moving the left slider under the tail of the histogram hump) or Curves (move the blackpoint to 35-40). I'd suggest doing either using an Adjustment Layer, so you can erase the areas that may get too dark (hair in particular). I'd also suggest using some USM (I used 500%, .2, 0).

Applying this minor exposure correction and some sharpening and that 1st pic looks outstanding :clap

Thanks for sharing these,
Steve

PS; watch your horizons :D

[ian408]

What Steve said. Plus... 1 & 4) have peak action. 2 & 3) are too early or late.
They all look a bit soft but that's probably fixable in post with a bit of
sharpening.

Surf is fun stuff to shoot. Look forward to seeing some more.

Ian

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thanks for the tips, and yeah, i plan to upgrade to a new camera wiith higher fps rate, possible nikon, im not sure yet