Nikon D800E photos Bianca Buitendag & Bethany Hamilton Supergilr Pro Oceanside Beach Pier in San Diego! Shot form high up above on the Oceanside Pier!

Nikon D800E photos of Bianca Buitendag, Bethany Hamilton, and other pro surf girls at the Oceanside Huntington Beach Pier! Gorgeous pro surf girl goddesses all who are also professional swimsuit bikini / athletic sports clothing models! Shot with the awesome Nikon D800E & the Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 AF APO DG OS HSM Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras. They’re all professional models too (Alana Blanchard was a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model and Rip Curl Bikini Model!)!

And here’re some epic video of pretty goddesses Bianca Buitendag and Alanna Blanchard I shot at the same time with the Panasonic X900MK 3MOS 3D Full HD SD Camcorder with 32GB Internal Memory mounted on my Nikon D800E via the 45surfer configuration.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxYPyOtzAQU (Bianca Buitendag paddling out and surfing!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bX4gXnfLtc (alana running on beach, paddling out, surfing)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LLePW95N0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANM70cBDNVo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqA-0TOkjk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVEcj3bTdeQ

Last year I was shooting with a Nikon D4 with a 600mm F4 Prime monster Nikkor lens mounted on the tripod:

www.flickr.com/photos/herosjourneymythology45surf/8555104…

This year I wanted to be more nimble and work the whole area (shoot surfers warming up down the beach, coming and goring, running, hanging out/watching/etc.), so I opted to shoot with a Nikon D800E with the Sigma 150-500m lens mounted on a monopod. It can be tough to move tripod around with a 600mm F4 Prime monster Nikkor lens on a crowded beach, and it would be easy to upset folks each time you tried to set it up! There’s a good chance they would say "enough" and throw you and all your equipment in the water! There’s a common etiquette that one ought arrive early to claim a good spot, set up there, and keep it for the day. Latecomers are not welcome to set up on the main beach once it has filled up. But it’s OK to walk around with a smaller setup as long as you stay out of everyone’s way. Generally you can hug the water/shoreline with your feet and monopod in the water, as you’re down low enough so that you don’t block anyone’s view from higher up on the beach, where all the tripods are mounted. The Sigma 150-500mm lens also allowed me to zoom out when surfers ran down the beach or got in and out of the water, and I also had a Nikon D800E with the 28-300 mm lens strapped around my neck. And both cameras had video cameras mounted to them in my famous 45surfer configuration! Needless to say, it can be a bit scary standing knee-deep in water with all that equipment, with large waves breaking. You wouldn’t want to fall in!

Well, hope you enjoy the surf goddess photography!

All the best on your epic hero’s journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy! 🙂

P.S. There’s nothing like shooting the nikon D4 with the 600mm prime for quality, but I felt it was cool to give up a bit of quality for far more variety this year! Plus I do not want to become a pixel-peeper! 🙂

Posted by 45SURF Hero’s Odyssey Mythology Landscapes & Godde on 2013-08-26 22:01:21

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