Northern California

This past weekend three of my friends and I took a trip up north.  We knew there would be waves we just did not know it would be this good.  I decided to shoot instead of surf due to the fact that I planned to originally and the board I had with me at the time would not have handled too well. Here is just a couple from that day more to come soon.  I shot with a Canon 7D with a 75-300mm lens which unfortunately is a terrible contrast lens at full focal length. Due to this fact I had to do more adjusting then usual in which I use Adobe Lightroom.  I am pleased with how they look just wish I had a nicer lens.

 Lefts were grinding all day.

 The Rights though were long clean walls.

 This one above is of my Friend Jake featured in the first shot.  He is setting up for a nice long right.

Even out of the water the bombs keep rolling in. The conditions were not perfect to start but cleaned up to nearly epic conditions.  It was about 8-12 feet faces with one random set that cleaned everyone up that was pushing 15.

Working Bench

                               Above is the work beach.  Taken with my canon 7d featuring the tools I have been using as of recently.  These tools are some of the most useful tools for me lately.  Shaping another surfboard right now featured below.  Its not completed but its going to be a 5'6" quad with a weird diamond tail(i might change this to a normal diamond tail but as of now I like how it looks and am interested on its performance).  The camera picture is a 50mm Argus Rangefinder aka the Brick.  Its a cool little 35mm camera though it has no built in light meter so lately I have either carried around an extra camera, usually my 7D, or done my best at guessing a decent exposure.  The aperture range goes 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8,11, 16.  While the shutter speed range from 10-300.  

Travel

Travelling through the pines of big sur a couple weekends ago.  Slow Shutter speed with some reflection off the back window.  Taken with 200 iso colour film on my Nikon FE.  I love that camera.  Its more rugged and durable then anything made these days and even with a canon 7D I enjoy the quality and feel of using the nikon.  The whole argument of which is better is lame in my opinion.  If your above using a camera at your disposal because of the brand then you will never be-able to create truly organic art. Shadowed single fin travelling below also shot at a slow shutter speed to blur everything but the shadow.

Bikes

Took a bike ride through the Oregon wilderness.  35mm nikon Fe more photos from the trip to come.

50 Shades of Purple

Every once in a while a Sunset is something you just can not pass up.  Despite some popular belief that a picture of a sunset is a quick one too and that's just what you get this photo would be impossible for your iphone to take unless you have some alternative apps and a lot of time.  Normally the background of this would be over exposed or the foreground just a silhouette. And for you brainiacs out there this isn't 2 photos the tones and exposure would still be off of what i was trying to achieve.

Barrel

My Names Luke Dawson and I am a Photographer, Student, Surfer and normal person. Welcome to the beginnings. The Photo above is a shot I took while shooting photos for the Ezekiel surf guys.