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Sports Illustrated : North Shore Windsurfing
Sports Illustrated : North Shore Windsurfing
Dr.Confuser


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2009-01 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
Location: Maui, Hawaii (USA)
Date: Jan 23, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2009

 Post-Challenge Comments
No one was more surprised than me about the purple water. Because I was traveling, I edited this on an old Sony laptop. Besides being painfully slow, it is impossible to calibrate the display and I think the 4-year-old display's brightness and colors have deteriorated. I might re-edit it and post the outtake here if I have time.


Photographer’s Notes
On the north shore of Maui (Hawaii) is the Ho’okipa beach, popular with surfers for its great waves. When the wind blows the surfers away, the wind surfers come to play. Conditions today were 10 to 16 foot swells and 20 to 30 knot winds. Could life get any better?

BTW: The pictured windsurfer nailed a perfect landing after a 360 degree loop!

The photo was taken from a high bluff above the bay, a perfect vantage point I shared with a dozen other photographers all will long lenses.


Post Processing
• Convert from RAW (PS CS3 Camera Raw)
• Crop
• Resize (Bicubic Sharper)
• Sharpen (USM and mask)
• Deepen Blues and Cyans (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Border (Stroke Layer)
• Save for Web (PS CS3)

Camera Data
• Date: 2009-01-23
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: 70-300 mm @ 270 mm
• ISO: 400
• Aperture: f/8
• Shutter: 1/2500

Statistics
Place: 102 out of 454
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Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.9821
Avg (non-participants): 6.0000
Views since voting: 1107
Views during voting: 245
Votes: 162
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/07/2009 03:32:01 PM
Color of the water works well for me. Lines on the boards and sails are nice and sharp. Great capture!
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 02/05/2009 07:40:32 PM
I'm not sure if the water was purple when you took this shot or not, but I would have definitively enjoyed this one more if water were more on the blue, normal side.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/03/2009 05:03:45 PM
Nice action shot. The purple waves make me think of Grape Kool-Aid
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/02/2009 07:26:09 PM
dang, that is some funky colored water. is it really that color? is my monitor wacked out. (It looks purple on my screen, really purple, but the other colors look normal).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2009 03:53:42 PM
Purple water? How was this done?
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 02/01/2009 01:03:43 PM
nice capture, great color
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/01/2009 08:15:43 AM
Nice capture. Interesting photo.
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:)
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 01/31/2009 08:46:58 PM
Who dumped Kool-aid in your ocean??
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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