Illustrator

Just a little design I whipped up on Illustrator last night. I like making these.

Kodak Retina

Taken With a Kodak Retina iic this is of the Huntington Beach pier a week or so ago.  I surfed for an hour or so before this and it was kinda fun waist high maybe a little bigger. I surfed a 5'10 single fin a board I have been riding alot lately because the waves haven't been that great or sizeable.  The board handles good size surf when it needs to though.  Below are a couple lifestyle/design shots that I took with the same camera.  An outline for a twin fin that I want to make soon once the time and money provides for it.  I have a bunch of old architecture tools, that I use while drawing out designs and random ideas, because I took a couple intro architecture classes in community college.  Although I found out that it was not for me it actually was useful to the way I think about ideas and photographs.  The design elements of the arts can often be visualized ahead of time similar to the initial blueprints of a house.  The third image is just a shot of the table I make use of while shaping boards with the Captain Fin Co. hat that has been a staple item of my travels and creations.

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.  

Its Time to Leave

Need to get out and travel again. Newport has been flat need some more waves. Time to get on a place or in a car to go somewhere new.  Other news I am starting a new video project soon that I have been drawing out some ideas for more information soon.

Watershots

Here is a photo I shot using my Nikon Fe with my Ikelite Warehousing.  I used a 50mm lens and had the aperture set to f11.  There was plenty of light so the shutter speed stayed high so no motion blur would occur.  I decided to use f11 over f16 because even though the depth of field would be greater the shutter speed had a chance of going too low and causing some motion blur.  The range of expectable focus with f11 was set to ~10-30 feet.  This made it perfect for shooting this day because the current was decently strong(and due to one of my friends having my good fins I only had one to swim around.) Pictured above is my manager from work and below is one of my friends(and subsequently my new manager haha) from work.  Both images will most likely be used at my art show on the 16 of November at the Crossing Church in Costa Mesa.  These along with a good amount of double exposures I did and am extremely happy with the results(though the person picture isn't completely stoked but thats how the cookie crumbles I guess).  Unfortunately I will not be posting any of them until after the show.

35 Min

This is taken with my Nikon FE and a 28mm wide angle lens.  Nearly Everything in this picture is in focus due to using an aperture of f22.  The image took 35min to take with 100 speed 35mm film.  The only source of light was the lamps located onto of the pier.  On the horizon there is a white line which was created by a boat that was slowly moving towards the harbor.

EZ Twin

Photo of Trevor Oosterhof riding his hand shaped twin fin.  This is a part of the Ezekiel team archive I have started to compile from doing a couple shoots for them and the Shop Collective boys.  Always stoked to be able to help out.  Shot with a Canon 7D.

Scientific Bottom Turn

This is a Photo of Ezekiel Team rider Kip Scientist.  I took this photo with a Nikon FE using 35mm color film.  I used an Ikelite water housing that was made for this camera.  This was the first roll of film that I shot using the water housing and I was stoked on how the results came out.  Getting lined up for water shots at beach breaks is a little tricky due to the randomness of peaks that come in.  Thanks to my viper swim fins I was able to maneuver fairly easily with 8-10 pounds of camera and water housing(1970s steeze).

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.