About the Image(s)

Title: Underwater Photo

This photo was taken a few years ago in December at Sandy Beach on the northeast shore of Oahu, Hawaii. As I have mentioned in the past, most of the sand beach at Sandy Beach is about 10-12 feet above the level of the ocean and the surf often breaks only about 10-20 from the shore, allowing me to shoot down slightly at the body boarders and skim boarders and eliminate the horizon. The waves were in the 8 feet range, and the “all-water” background works well in this photo. I’m able to sit in a beach chair, elbows on the arm rests, with a tripod in front of me. The tripod supports the weight of the camera and lens, but I leave the ball head loose, so that I can easily swivel the lens to the right and left and up and down. It’s really quite comfortable to shoot here.

My camera is a Canon 7D Mark II (1.6 crop sensor), and the lens is the new EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II zoom lens at 227mm. The settings were f:7.1, ISO 400, at 1/2000 sec in bright sunlight, though the body boarder is in the shadow of the wave.