Martin Newland, QPSA
About the Image(s)
This is an image that I took back in the summer of 2016 while attending the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria, Australia.
Our Modus Operandi was to arrive at the festival the day before it began to secure a good position in the campground.
With most of the day free, I went looking for a photo opportunity and came across a group of surfers. Most of them waited out at sea for the perfect wave which never came. But this lad, in his colourful wetsuit, was practicing his 360 degree turns, not too far from me, on any scruffy wave that came past the small rocky groyne on which I was sitting.
In the hour or so that I was there, I took nearly 600 photos.
I have included one of my other favorites from that shoot.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 1/250, f/10, ISO 100
Canon EF 70 - 300 f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens @ 300mm
This round’s discussion is now closed!
13 comments posted
My only concern with this image is the lack of focus of the top-most wave, It detracts from the surfer, the main item in the story.   Posted: 11/03/2021 09:43:26
I have done a combination of cropping and cloning to remove it. Straight cropping brought the top of the image too close to the surfer and hence I cloned in some of the near background water to replace it.
I think this is a good result. Thank you.   Posted: 11/03/2021 16:47:20
(Groups 21 & 48 & 71)
I went to the Festival with the intention of photographing some of the international Folk music artists who were passing through. So this was an extra.
For memory this was the year I managed to get photos of Judy Collins and Mary Black while at Port Fairy.   Posted: 11/04/2021 17:11:58
Colors, action, sharp focus on the athlete! Great shot. I would not change a thing!   Posted: 11/05/2021 08:39:43
Sunscreen is essential here. The sun is very damaging to the skin especially the nose. However this fellow's sunscreen looks almost like a "tribal" marking!   Posted: 11/05/2021 19:42:20
(Group 40)