{"id":225,"date":"2006-09-24T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/fire-breathing-dragon\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T23:43:34","slug":"fire-breathing-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/fire-breathing-dragon.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire Breathing Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

**As of August 2012, I am using Delmar Housing Projects<\/a> for my Canon 5D Mark III. The lens I prefer to use is the 16-35 f\/2.8 II. The first couple sessions with this rig: first<\/a> and second<\/a>.**<\/p>\n

More surf photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My approach to photography is not particularly rigorous or diligent. In fact, it is random and haphazard. A good friend of mine has several times referred to my technique as “machine-gun-fire.” My thinking is that if I spray enough frames around during the course of a shoot, odds are one of them will be a keeper. I adhere to the ancient Zen saying that Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut<\/em>. In keeping with this philosophy (of shooting as many frames as I can and worrying about it later) I replaced my 20D<\/a> with a wildly fast 1DIIN<\/a> (my other camera being a relatively slow 1DsII<\/a>). This thing is a fire breathing dragon. It fires off 8.5 frames a second, continuously, and doesn’t even begin to slow until I have blazed 20-30 frames. Not only that but I got 500 shots this morning before the camera was full — that is a lot of photos. 8.5 frames a second is twice as fast as any of my other cameras, so I can shoot twice as many frames in a day which means, assuming averages hold, I will get twice as many keepers. Twice the keepers means I am now twice as good as I was before and I should expect twice as many photo sales. Sound reasoning.<\/p>\n

I took the new camera out for a test drive this morning at Ponto<\/a>, wrapped in the beautiful new Delmar camera housing<\/a> that Erik Hjermstad just built for me last week. Conditions were nice, glassy, sunny, warm. It was fun. Here are a few shots.<\/p>\n

\"Breaking<\/a><\/p>\n

Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.
Image ID: 17679<\/a>
Location: Ponto<\/a>, Carlsbad<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Breaking<\/a><\/p>\n

Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad.
Image ID: 17680<\/a>
Location: Ponto<\/a>, Carlsbad<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**As of August 2012, I am using Delmar Housing Projects for my Canon 5D Mark III. The lens I prefer to use is the 16-35 f\/2.8 II. The first couple sessions with this rig: first and second.** More surf photos. My approach to photography is not particularly rigorous or diligent….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,65,116],"tags":[221,223,324],"class_list":{"0":"post-225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-california","7":"category-carlsbad","8":"category-surf","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-carlsbad","11":"tag-surf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}