Drive to surf.

So this morning we woke up and cruised to surf OB this morning again.  I surfed today if was super fun some sick ones.  These are some of the happenings on the way to surf.

Charcoal Pencil

Was bored and did some art today.  The top is a piece of PU foam that I cut out of a board that I snapped a while back.  I planed off the yellow foam to see how the planer works on PU since I have never shaped one before.  I did this in preparation for the next board I will be shaping.  Its going to be a gunned out 6'6" single fin; I have not decided yet if I want to put bonzers on it but I have plenty of time to decide(still have to shape the board and paint/draw on it).  Speaking of painting and drawing.  The above picture is also my test on drawing with charcoal pencil on a surfboard blank. As you can see from above I am happy with how it came out and most likely going to draw a similar pattern on the deck of the 6'6" single.  Excited to continue shaping some boards got ideas for a couple more once that tax return comes in.Though my first priority is buying a plane ticket more about that later though.

This below is a drawing I did in my notebook a while back that I scanned and cleaned up with the help of some Adobe products.  Not sure what I am going to do with it but most likely put it on rice paper and glass it to a board.  From what the words say I think it would be fitting to put on a twin fin. A twin fin is planned for the tax return boards.

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.  

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.

Tower Under the Moon

Long Exposure of a Lifeguard tower in Newport Beach Ca.  The Exposure was approximately 17mins from what I can remember.  It was taken with a Canon 7D at about 10 o'clock at night. the white line right above the sand is the whitewash from waves illuminated so slightly by the moon.  The skyline looks all washed away because it was quite windy out so it is the motion of the clouds moving over the 17 minutes.  The colors are not manipulated at all it is the naturally color created under the moonlight conditions and possibly some tint from the boardwalk lights.

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.