I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
He has special, custom made housings built for the cameras. You can go to
youtube and search for Clark Little. There are some interviews where he
gives details including cameras and special, waterproof housings.

President even bought one of his paintings to hang in the oval office. That
makes sense as Obama goes to Hawaii a lot and knows the folks there. And
Clark Little is local boy who made good. He was a surf bum for 30 years and
took that knowldge to his photography. And it works. His photos are getting
international acclaim.

In addition to swimming and surfing to get his photos, he will stand (or
sit) on the beach and watch a big wave crash over him as he photographs it
from the bottom. Somehow or another, he seems healthy and fit. I would die
if I tried a stunt like that.

The detail, colors, textures, etc of a monsterous, moving wall of water is
incredible from his perspective. Very few of us would ever actually get to
see this. I guess that is what makes him so unique. He is showing us
something that we would never normally see.

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?



Rainex

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:30:33 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
He has special, custom made housings built for the cameras. You can go to
youtube and search for Clark Little. There are some interviews where he
gives details including cameras and special, waterproof housings.

Yabbut, how do you keep the lens (housing lens area) dry up until the
point you take the pic? Maybe he sillycones the plastic. shrug


President even bought one of his paintings to hang in the oval office. That
makes sense as Obama goes to Hawaii a lot and knows the folks there. And
Clark Little is local boy who made good. He was a surf bum for 30 years and
took that knowldge to his photography. And it works. His photos are getting
international acclaim.

In addition to swimming and surfing to get his photos, he will stand (or
sit) on the beach and watch a big wave crash over him as he photographs it
from the bottom. Somehow or another, he seems healthy and fit. I would die
if I tried a stunt like that.

"Lost" is a good example of where NOT to be when a wall of water hits
the sand. It drives you right into it and holds you down while
churning all around you. I would NOT like to have been Clark in that
case.


The detail, colors, textures, etc of a monsterous, moving wall of water is
incredible from his perspective. Very few of us would ever actually get to
see this. I guess that is what makes him so unique. He is showing us
something that we would never normally see.

I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess. I grew up near the beach in LoCal
and body surfed in Hawaii several times. Sandy Beach on Oahu is scary
as hell! The break is on a steep beach so it's like "Lost". There was
a black sand beach (ground pumice) which was the same way. The rip was
short, but it sucked you right back into the whompers. You ride it in
and dig your hands into the pumice to hold on long enough to get out,
or curl up and flip your legs forward in the middle of the ride so it
sets you down on your feet. I had forgotten about that beach until
this discussion. I had scrapes on my knees, elbows, and both
shoulders after that one, but 13 y/o boys heal quickly.

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

On Jan 11, 10:14*pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. *Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. *So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. *Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. *My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

"Robatoy" wrote in message
...
On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. Way too much movement for that. Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I suspect
that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more that were
tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

"Leon" wrote in message
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"Robatoy" wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. Way too much movement for that. Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I
suspect that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more
that were tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

Hie camera shoots 9 frames per second. He obviously shoots far more photos
than he uses.

On Jan 12, 10:43*am, "Lee Michaels"
wrote:
"Leon" wrote in message

...





"Robatoy" wrote in message
....
On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. *Way too much movement for that. *Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I
suspect that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more
that were tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

Hie camera shoots 9 frames per second. *He obviously shoots far more photos
than he uses.

At 9 fps it could be HDR. HDR software nowadays can account for some
motion.. but a bezillion waterdrops? Dunno.
Maybe Leon is right, just a load of saturation. They _are_ doing HDR
in video now, ie music vids etc.
I shot some HDR stuff way back...went hard-over backwards to greyscale
again. After watching a PBS special on Karsch, I am going back there
again, although this time digitally. I sold all my darkroom gear long
ago. All I have left is a bundle of 4 x 5 plate/tank holders.
That was some very fine therapy... to go hide in the darkroom for
hours and hours and come out all relaxed.

On Jan 12, 10:06*am, "Leon" wrote:
"Robatoy" wrote in message

...
On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:





On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. *Way too much movement for that. *Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I suspect
that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more that were
tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

CSI Miami? YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII. That show turned my youngest
daughter into a Who fan.
Personally? I find it entertaining when I suspend disbelief.

"Leon" wrote in message
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"Robatoy" wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. Way too much movement for that. Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I
suspect that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more
that were tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

Leon may have it right or it it might be "pseudo-HDR." Photomatix Pro
has a function that allows processing of a single RAW file. I use it
frequently. Under the 'Automate' menu is BATCH SINGLE FILE. After which
you can turn the intensity up or down to get the look you like.


--
Dave in Houston
flickr :: HaveNikon_WillTravel
http://www.pbase.com/speedracer

On Jan 12, 2:55*pm, "Dave In Texas" wrote:
"Leon" wrote in message

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"Robatoy" wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 10:14 pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:42 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels"
scrawled the following:

I came across these today. Clark Little is a guy who takes his surfboard
and/or fins out into the surf in Hawaii, with a camera. So he gets great
photos from an inside the wave perspective. It is getting a lot of
attention. Truly unique marine photography.

http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/gallery/

Gorgeous. My faves, in order, were Marlin, Lost (both on the second
page), and Red Dirt (last page).

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?
There's no way that's natural colour.

While the pics have the saturation of a typical HDR picture I really don't
think that they are HDR. *Way too much movement for that. *Typical photo
enhancement programs will give more color saturation and contrast, I
suspect that is what he used along with taking probably thousands more
that were tossed.
Have you ever watched CSI Miami on TV, their whole show has that HDR look,
color saturation is cranked way up especially during the opening of the
show.

* * Leon may have it right or it it might be "pseudo-HDR." *Photomatix Pro
has a function that allows processing of a single RAW file. *I use it
frequently. *Under the 'Automate' menu is BATCH SINGLE FILE. *After which
you can turn the intensity up or down to get the look you like.

--
* * * * * * * *Dave in Houston
* * * flickr :: HaveNikon_WillTravelhttp://www.pbase.com/speedracer





Found it. Thanks for that.

Robatoy writes:

CSI Miami? YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII. That show turned my youngest
daughter into a Who fan.
Personally? I find it entertaining when I suspend disbelief.

You don't believe they spend $250K to investigate the death of some
homeless bum? And that DNS analysis takes 15 minutes? And that they
can do computer simulations in realtime?

Maxwell Lol wrote:
Robatoy writes:

CSI Miami? YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII. That show turned my youngest
daughter into a Who fan.
Personally? I find it entertaining when I suspend disbelief.

You don't believe they spend $250K to investigate the death of some
homeless bum? And that DNS analysis takes 15 minutes? And that they
can do computer simulations in realtime?

I like to watch the first five minutes of that show. In high definition
it's incredible. The rest is kind of meh, but the guy who shoots those
opening cityscapes has an superb eye.

On Jan 12, 5:36*pm, Maxwell Lol wrote:
Robatoy writes:
CSI Miami? *YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAIIIIIIIII. That show turned my youngest
daughter into a Who fan.
Personally? I find it entertaining when I suspend disbelief.

You don't believe they spend $250K to investigate the death of some
homeless bum? And that DNS analysis takes 15 minutes? And that they
can do computer simulations in realtime?

You mean they don't REALLY work in stripjoint/lounge lighting either?

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:23:48 -0800 (PST), the infamous Robatoy
scrawled the following:

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?

His camera shoots at 9FPS to high-speed compact flash memory.
Here's a review of the D-3 drool: http://fwd4.me/BGm
(I love my D-40, though.)

Whassa "HDR"?


There's no way that's natural colour.

You might be surprised. I've been a water baby since I was 2 and have
seen all sorts of water colors in streams, creeks, rivers, pools, and
oceans. Silt brings lots of brownish hues to the water. Hawaii has
lots of different corals reflecting their coloration into the water,
too. It had the widest array of water colors I've ever seen. I've
visited there 3 times now. The ocean there is tepid, about 85F. VERY
different from the frigid Left Coast waters, and a nice change.

Then again, he might enhance the color with Photoshop. Most
photographers are purists, though, and wouldn't do that on a bet. Ask
him if he does that...if you dare.

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:23:48 -0800 (PST), the infamous Robatoy
scrawled the following:

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?

His camera shoots at 9FPS to high-speed compact flash memory.
Here's a review of the D-3 drool: http://fwd4.me/BGm
(I love my D-40, though.)

Whassa "HDR"?

High Dynamic Range

This normally requires bracketing photography, taking 3 or more pictures
with a normal exposure, an over exposed picture, and an equally under
exposed picture. Then they are all lumped toghether to give the picture a
best of all worlds look. Typically it reduces shadows and over exposures
and tends to make the picture look focused regardless of how far distant
objects appear.
Then a photo programs tends to up the saturation and or contrast and you get
what typically looks like IMHO a camera perfect painting. Norman
Rockwell'ish?






There's no way that's natural colour.

You might be surprised. I've been a water baby since I was 2 and have
seen all sorts of water colors in streams, creeks, rivers, pools, and
oceans. Silt brings lots of brownish hues to the water. Hawaii has
lots of different corals reflecting their coloration into the water,
too. It had the widest array of water colors I've ever seen. I've
visited there 3 times now. The ocean there is tepid, about 85F. VERY
different from the frigid Left Coast waters, and a nice change.

Then again, he might enhance the color with Photoshop. Most
photographers are purists, though, and wouldn't do that on a bet. Ask
him if he does that...if you dare.

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:31:38 -0600, the infamous "Leon"
scrawled the following:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:23:48 -0800 (PST), the infamous Robatoy
scrawled the following:

How does he get the series of shots off fast enough to do the HDR's?

His camera shoots at 9FPS to high-speed compact flash memory.
Here's a review of the D-3 drool: http://fwd4.me/BGm
(I love my D-40, though.)

Whassa "HDR"?

High Dynamic Range

This normally requires bracketing photography, taking 3 or more pictures

The D-3 (and my D-40) will bracket, no problem.


with a normal exposure, an over exposed picture, and an equally under
exposed picture. Then they are all lumped toghether to give the picture a
best of all worlds look. Typically it reduces shadows and over exposures
and tends to make the picture look focused regardless of how far distant
objects appear.

Oh, like some of the astronomy software uses. Got it.


Then a photo programs tends to up the saturation and or contrast and you get
what typically looks like IMHO a camera perfect painting. Norman
Rockwell'ish?

Only the cheap ones, or perhaps purpose-built software for a section
of photography which tends to be washed out by default. Others leave
that well enough alone, TYVM.

--
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of
having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's
ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and
of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
-- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
Snip


Then a photo programs tends to up the saturation and or contrast and you
get
what typically looks like IMHO a camera perfect painting. Norman
Rockwell'ish?

Only the cheap ones, or perhaps purpose-built software for a section
of photography which tends to be washed out by default. Others leave
that well enough alone, TYVM.

No, actually that is the look that the process is going for, so to speak...
It all depends on the subject. I have down loaded a lot fo pictures by Mike
Savid from Photosig.com . A lof of his pictures make modern day look old
timey. Pretty cool.

How does that guy keep a dry LENS?!?

Larry, I think he uses a Shamwow to wipe the lens!!!