The Art of Surf Cinematography August 15, 2011
Posted by admin in : Articles , trackbackWhether this is the first time, catch a wave or you get a weapon on a regular basis the feeling of surfing is a horrifying experience. This feeling is not just those limited to surf, there is another dynamic that this surfing chicken skin caused only to a select group of individuals. A group of people who are often hidden out of sight and submerged up to their necks in water with only their own color were visible to visitors. They live on the dark side of the lens, whose sole aim is the right place at the right time to capture the essence of surfing.
You are surfing filmmakers and their work is so unique that there is no other sport in the world that the possibility of obtaining permits microfiche few inches from their subjects. Picture for a minute to watch your football on Sunday and the next you know is a camera that think through the field to run to be hit, not me, it goes so well. But the filmmakers travel to the other side are in need themselves to the precarious situations, often inches from the edge of the razor blade or a surfboard to get all the efforts of the administration of vaccine. Surfing for filmmakers, the results always outweigh the risks, but also for those in pursuit of the surf movie of interest, you can not expect a camera and that to obtain the same results. You must pay your fees in the surf industry, we call this time of the water.
The time the water can not be bought or taught. Without time to water no matter how expensive or technically revolutionary your equipment, you’ll never be able to maximize the capabilities of their devices without the time of the water? Time of water in other words, it is the anticipation. Anticipate what will happen before it does not change, retrieval of the ocean and appropriately. Do you think they just caught accidentally in the right place to be images of people like Jack McCoy, Taylor Steele and Kai Neville are? Of course not, these people know how the look and feel of the video before pressing the shutter button. You know what surfing is like the wind and waves towards the light, and they know what time of day is to them the best chance for the lighting. All these experiences are situational and time, the water is finally on the success or failure for the success of your video.
For those of you interested in pursuing your passion for surf movie there is to follow a few simple guidelines. The first recommendation is to have a solid understanding of the principles of photography, which does have an understanding of shutter speed, aperture, ISO speed, lighting and composition and the effects of the lenses will have on them. Once comfortably be the next step with the functionality of the camera, want to spend time at your favorite surf spots. Make it a point to visit your points at different times of the day of the terrain topography, not to mention the mental notes of changes in lighting, like take the tidal wave, and responds to the wave changes its direction. In addition, a concentration, I spend much time analyzing is how unique photos of places that have received excessively saturated. What I look for angles that are not used, or an object that I was in the plan, which is to create a different perspective can accommodate. The last recommendation, the easiest way to go and as much as possible. Do not force your self to have great movies of amazing first couple of times. This is the time of registration of the water, the time the water that ultimately contribute to, you will surf to your skills as a filmmaker.
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