New Years Eve Windsurfing at The Bluff

 

I spent new years shooting the windsurfing at The Bluff Hayle, this year hasn't been the best for windsurfing we've had a massive run of North Westerly winds and not the usual South West winds so the days of decent wave riding conditions have been limited. This coming year I hope to spend a lot more time at the beach shooting sports in between  wedding work its the reason I 1st picked up a camera and started taking photos.



BWA Cornwall Wave Classic

This weekend I had the pleasure of photographing the Cornwall Wave Classic at the Bluff beach in Hayle, conditions were tricky at best with a harsh onshore northly wind. But the riders put on a show with some great wave riding and jumping.



My Recent Windsurf UK Interview

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A few more windsurfing photo stiches



I've been carrying on my expiration with photo stiches in photoshop and slowly now getting to point where I'm happy with the results and a lot better understanding of what works and what does not, it's still very much like a virtual jigsaw trying to get the image to look right with so much movement going on and also overlaying the right photos on top of the next or under so photo looks as less cultured as possible but also showing off as much action as I can.

 



Photo Stiches

 

Andy King Backloop

 

 

Andy King Forward Loop

 

 

And King Pushloop

 

I've had a bit of spare time recently and decided to spend a little time learning to stich photos of action sequences. Here are a few of my 1st attempts using some windsurf photography I recently took. I've found the main issue with this is deciding on what photo will be bottom layer and knowing that then the whole photo is based on that. Also choosing what images to cut from the original sequences was also tricky 1st of all I didn't want image to be to busy but I also wanted image to show all of the action so getting the spacing when the image is put together was important to consider when starting to build the stich.

I found windsurfing to be good subject to start with as all the movement was vertical in the shots rather than a turn is surfing where the subject comes back on itself which I've found hard to define the action without having very busy image. I'm hoping the best fix for this is going to be shooting the subject more square on rather than down the line of the wave.

A few other problems I've had is with exposure of the sky in the shots even though they were all photos in a stich were taken a split second apart I've found the difference in colour of up to a stop from other images this took a bit of blending and tweaking to get looking somewhere near where I was happy but still I need to find an easier fix for this.