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Before Dawn Patrol

AND THE LIGHT SHALL SHOW YOU THE WAY!!! Got together with my buddy Neal before work on Monday 9/30 in Long Beach, NY. If you not up on current events, the North Atlantic is currently in the middle of the weakest Hurricane season in the last 100 years (maybe I’m being a little dramatic). We are waved starved and will hump an glimpse of swell we get. In effort to squeeze a couple of more rides out of the swell, we got to the beach around 5:30am, a solid 45minutes before first light and an hour before sunrise. Easy enough for Neal he’s just got to ride the wave, I have to focus on a moving target in the dark while bobbing up and down trying to get a usable image. The only way I can get a usable image in “no light” is with a flash, luckily I have a waterproof flash housing to go along with my Camera.

I didn’t get too many usable photos when it was pitch dark, but this one some how was crisp as day light. You can tell by the blur of the light in the back ground that there was more then a little movement going on. Aperture 40, F-Stop 2.8, Flash 1/8 ISO 500

You can tell by the difference in light from the first photo that I must have spent 15-20 minutes without getting another usable photos and this one is a little shaky

I was getting great color shooting into the sun but positioning myself close enough for the flash to be affective was a little tricky

I have to give credit where it’s due, imagine get flashed at 8fps (frames per second) in the dark and keeping your cool to pull off style like this

It stunk that we had to go to work so early but you do what you have to get waves.

Posted by the surfing photog | October 2, 2013 | Categories: ART, Exploration, fun, LONG BEACH, long board, NEW YORK, Photography, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Water Angles | Tags: ART, Exploration, fun, long beach, long board, NEW YORK, photography, SURF, SURF PHOTOGRAPHY, Surfing, Water Angles | 2 Comments

Doing What I Do Best

I take photos, I imaging I also do a fair bit of marketing myself as a surf photographer, Exhibit 1: This Blog. But I struggle with the conflict of doing this for fun or doing it for money. I was approached by SURFLINE.COM to be listed as a “Local Pro”. Meaning they do a small bit of advertising for me personally and I generate site traffic for them and their advertisers by directing them to where they can see my pictures. Fair trade off I guess, just being listed as a “PRO” on their site gives me creditability that would be hard to generate on my own.

But I guess I’m just stating that I’m not doing it for the money, they have a section where you can buy my photos but it’s not about that. Surfline.com is the largest surf forecasting site on the internet and to be associated with them is an honor. I will always take my own type of photos (I’m not into “Sports Photography”) with an artistic approach.

So I hope you also go to their site and see my photos but you’ll never have to worry about “The Surfing Photog” going away, this is my home and it’s what I do best. So less words and more photos, Aloha

Lido West, NY FRIDAY THE 13TH

this guy almost cut back into my face, I felt uncomfortable how close his ass got to my face lol

Around 6:30 the sunrise came up but there was so many clouds that the light didn’t really get good until 7

The blur on this photo made it cool but the guy throwing the double shaka make it AWESOME!!!!

Posted by the surfing photog | September 13, 2013 | Categories: ART, Barrel, Business, Exploration, fun, LONG BEACH, NEW YORK, surf photography, surfing, Water Angles | Tags: ALOHA, ART, Barrel, long beach, NEW YORK, SURF, SURF PHOTOGRAPHY, Surfing, Traveling, Water Angles | Leave a comment

New Hamsandwhich

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of hitting the coast of New Hampshire, I have been to the coast there before but never scored any waves. After talking to the locals a little, they don’t really have any waves during the summer. Luckily I had a friend that was scouting the coast early that morning and found a really awesome cove called Rye Rocks. On low tide it is a total bone yard over 50 yards of rocks but as the tide rises it peals off this point break into the cove. I personally wouldn’t recommend going right until the tide fills in, that’s if you would like to keep your fins on your board?

Didn’t get into the water until 11am and by that time the sun was blazing over head. When you point a camera at the sun it has a really hard time finding a focal spot. Not the best to take pictures in but I made the best of it.

You can see the white water on the inside of this wave was basically a shiny overexposed blob of brightness.

I was glad Rye Rocks was more of a local spot, if you have even been to NH’s coast you know that every tourist from 500 miles comes to beach and it can get a little crowded with people that really have no clue how to surf. There was only 10 guys in the water where I was surfing, but a few miles down the road at “the Wall” there was over a 150 surfers in a 1 mile stretch of beach. This guy owned this spot on a what looked like a 5’8″ board and he was no little man.

If I got down low enough and shot on an angle I was able to find some color. The rest of my session was a game of dodge ball with the sun.

This kid was my favorite, super happy grom, that was basically just stoked to be out there surfing with his brother. ear to ear smile the whole time.

He watched his brother the whole time and took off on any wave his brother told him to paddle for.

Unfortunately I don’t think his bother told him to duck dive and stop watching.

Overall it was just a fun New England surf session, cold water, friendly vibes and a lot of smiles. Can’t Really ask for more… Except maybe more surfable days, Aloha

Posted by the surfing photog | August 14, 2013 | Categories: duckdive, Exploration, fun, long board, New Hampshire, old man, Photography, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Uncategorized, Water Angles | Tags: New Hampshire | 1 Comment

GREY, THE NEW COLOR

Scored an epic day in Long Beach, New York on the 22nd of April; It unfortunately didn’t come with any sun. When it’s overcast windy and heavy not many people throw their 5/6 mm wetsuit on and come out for a photo session in 50 degree water temperatures. Luckily I can always count on my Buddy Neal to charge for awesome photos.

All the photos are grey today but I bet they still get your blood pumping for surf. Broke this post into my favorite sequences and left a bunch a single shots for the end. Aloha

I’m really a fan of this angle, it usually leaves me totally exposed to get hit in the lip with the wave but I can’t wait till one day when the wave chandeliers over my head and I get a backdoor barrel shot.

Same angle as last but I was a little too inside and the wave didn’t really open up, Neal really threaded the needle though and busted threw the backdoor on this one.

Here are just a few single shots that I really liked

Posted by the surfing photog | April 30, 2013 | Categories: ART, B&W, Backdoor, Barrel, Black and White, Exploration, Fine Art, fun, LONG BEACH, NEW YORK, Photography, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Traveling, Water Angles | Tags: ART, B&W, Backdoor, Barrel, Black and White, Exploration, Fine Art, fun, long beach, NEW YORK, photography, SURF, SURF PHOTOGRAPHY, Surfing, Traveling, Water Angles | 9 Comments

Catching it while it’s good

I’m always getting excited about what I got rather then what I can have. I got a chance to travel to Tampa Bay, FL and usually when I visit this part of the country I don’t think I’m going to score waves. I’ve seen the Gulf of Mexico at it’s best but most of the time it’s lake placid. Well I scored waves, otherwise you would have to endure another “Artistic” post about the mottled composition of some strange topic against the contract of the setting sun. Lucky for you.

I got to Clearwater Beach around 6:30pm after work, it was dark grey, cold and windy. Not exactly perfect picture weather but I made the best of what I got. I had to use a flash, which requires low aperture settings, which in turn blurs everything that isn’t illuminated since everything is moving so fast. But I managed to produce some great images that really shows what it means to be a Gulf Coast surfer.

This guy had style for miles, I got the most photos of him because he was killing it the whole time.

You don’t always get the warmest welcome at local surf spots in Florida but this guy had a smile on his face the whole time.

I love to bust out the flash on dark night that are clear but when it grey it’s not always easy to get shots. I lucked out a lot and was able to catch a few keepers. You’ll notice that it’s hard to get a clear focus but on some photos it actually adds to the action.

The Surfing Photog will continue to travel and seek out new spots if you keep looking, Mahalo

Posted by the surfing photog | April 9, 2013 | Categories: ART, Clearwater beach, Exploration, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, long board, Photography, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Water Angles | Tags: ART, Clearwater beach, Exploration, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, long board, photography, SURF, SURF PHOTOGRAPHY, Surfing, Water Angles | 4 Comments

Delawho?

Delawho!!!! Delahere!!!! DELAWARE!!!!

Had a fantastic session at Indian River Inlet, DE. Delaware is not really on any major surfing radar but it gets solid beach break shoulder high surf. I’ve been working in Baltimore, MD and had a few days off so I hit the beach and washed off the big city blues with a little friendly town charm.

Nothing to say but positive words about the wonderful surfers and people in the state of Delaware, I’ve rolled thru this part of the country a few times and have always been greeted with smiles. So I passed out a few business cards at the beach and if anybody would like copies, email me @: danielwilliamfryer@gmail.com and I’d be more then happy to pass along the ALOHA I have been shown.

Liquid Aloha (Needs a little touch of heat though haha)

Killer beach break barrels, this guy entered with no fear… actually he had a smile on his face the whole time

In a place where you would think everyone would be rocking the long plank… this was the only longboarder in the line up

A First on thesurfingphotog.com!!!! a mofoing KneeBoarder, they still exist. “When you are on your knees ever thing is HEAD high ;)”

I even had a Talented women with a warm blanket waiting for me, days off don’t get much better, Mahalo Delaware

Posted by the surfing photog | March 26, 2013 | Categories: ART, Barrel, delaware, Exploration, Fine Art, fun, indian river, long board, old man, Photography, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Traveling, Water Angles | 3 Comments

Old/New Movtivation

Me and the ocean just took a serious break from each other. It’s never planned but in my pursuit of waves searching I’ve had to go in land to produce funds for my traveling. It brings me back so hungry it’s almost all consuming. In a few days I’ll get the first chance to surf/shoot in the last 3 months. I’d like to tell you I’m returning to a massive swell with perfectly groom off shore winds but I’ve never been a good liar. I’ve checked the reports so many times in the last week at this point I could by the minute tell you the meteorology data for all of the Northeast. But rather then bore you with jargon, I present to you some found beauties that were over looked in my first edit of my NY fall season.

The best Motivation I know is to re-edit old sessions and find sparks of fire I missed the first time. Mahalo for viewing them.

Posted by the surfing photog | March 17, 2013 | Categories: ART, B&W, Barrel, Black and White, Exploration, fun, LONG BEACH, NEW YORK, Photography, Robert Moses State Park, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Traveling, Water Angles | 3 Comments

Beautiful Motion

I sometimes get the pleasure to step beyond myself, waiting for stillness and expression rather then turbulence and action. I’m currently traveling for work with my girlfriend and luckily she has the grace and patience to indulge me with a series of pool photo shoots. Not really sure if these photo adventures have a purpose or meaning but maybe its better that way. There is that whimsical childlike excitement that comes from exploration. Water is my medium, this is my education

Skin tone is diluted by the distance of water between you and your subject, think of water as giant blue filter for your camera. This might be a more morbid photo then you are used too on my blog but my models skin is very light and this series of photos play on that contrast.

Here is the other extreme, matching skin tone underwater can add a vibrance to an otherwise dull photo

This is just us having fun, luckily I have long arms and a fisheye lens so I don’t need a 3rd person for stuff like this

We learned a lot from the first shoot and decided that the best photos were the ones that were still and screamed peacefulness. So we switched outfits and pools and continued to explore .

I’m not really used to portraying thoughtfulness and presenting it in a peaceful manor, I take surfing photos…

This pool was also a lot darker and deeper so it help capturing the moment from afar.

We had fun and learned a lot so hopefully I’ll be able to bring you more pool shots and just maybe I’ll figure out how to bring some of this calmness to surf photography

Posted by the surfing photog | January 18, 2013 | Categories: B&W, Black and White, Fine Art, fun, Photography, surf photography, Traveling, underwater, Water Angles | 1 Comment

A Bath of Fire

The sting of the sand blasting against your face, the almost creepy silence of the beach void of all sounds except the crashing of the waves and the burning sensation of the brisk 40 degree water temperature sizzling the small amount of skin that is not covered by thick neoprene. This is the price we pay for empty barrels in the dead of winter. It’s an addiction that saves us from the insanity’s of life.

Do you have what it takes to be here?

Go into a surf shop and put on a 5/6mm wetsuit and try to touch your toes, the extra power you need to stretch to normal limits is ridiculous. Now try pulling into a barrel… Neal making it look easy

If you are a regular visitor to my blog you know how addicted to color I am, but there is a solace to a grey overcast days with brown waves. It’s raw, not pretty and real. This is surf photography for people that have so much love for the ocean it literally hurts.

Step into life without fear and be rewarded by the things that scare you.

Posted by the surfing photog | December 23, 2012 | Categories: B&W, Barrel, Black and White, Exploration, fun, LONG BEACH, NEW YORK, Photography, SURF, surf photography, Water Angles | Tags: ALOHA, DIY, long beach, NY, ocean, photography, SURF, SURF PHOTOGRAPHY, Surfing | 1 Comment

Stoked

It’s been an amazing week in Southern Florida. I couldn’t ask for more.

The color and clarity is insane

I met James early in my session at Lake Worth and just thought he was some dude asking about what I was doing in the water, I then realized James has got skills. This guy was all over the place, killing it.

Closeouts are fun it you know how to rock them

The light was blinding around 10:30, most of my photos were getting over exposed but I managed to find some gems

Thank you is all I have to say

Posted by the surfing photog | November 25, 2012 | Categories: ART, Barrel, Florida, Lake Worth Pier, SURF, surf photography, surfing, Water Angles | 2 Comments