Month
Sept. 05
U.S. Open
There is nothing like going to the beach early in the morning to photograph some of the world's best surfers and the waves are topping out at about 2-3 feet. Not real exciting! But I learned an important lesson: great surfers can even make a small wave look exciting.
As witnessed by this site, I'm finally getting to the point where I'm comfortable with the combination of camera, lens, and tripod that I am using. Even documenting the heats and the surfers is more difficult than it first appears. You have to develop your own system and this takes time and experience. I appear to be the only one on the beach actually taking notes. I guess all of the other photographers already know the lineups.
All of the images were taken with a 12 megapixel digital SLR with 300-800 mm F5.6 zoom lens. No polarizer was used and the camera was set to high speed crop. The latter is a incredible feature of the D2X.