{"id":4925,"date":"2011-09-02T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2023-12-31T07:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:46:46","slug":"the-wedge-and-cylinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/the-wedge-and-cylinders.html","title":{"rendered":"The Wedge and Cylinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big New Zealand swell is hitting south-facing beaches, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=the_wedge__newport_beach__california__usa__location\">the Wedge in Newport Beach<\/a> which is seeing 20&#8217;+ faces right now. The light was terrible and the waves were sloppy and foamy. I&#8217;m glad I did not choose to shoot in the water because it would have been a waste of time given the overcast skies and soupy water. While the sets were big, they were walled out. I had a new camera so I practiced dragging the shutter with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=14355\">a technique I first tried at the Wedge about 6 years ago<\/a>. Cylinders actually had better waves than the Wedge, but it was all pretty ugly this morning. Here are some photos I thought were interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/img\/wedge_cylinders_20110902-5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big New Zealand swell is hitting south-facing beaches, including the Wedge in Newport Beach which is seeing 20&#8217;+ faces right now. The light was terrible and the waves were sloppy and foamy. I&#8217;m glad I did not choose to shoot in the water because it would have been a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[291,324],"class_list":{"0":"post-4925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surf","8":"tag-newport-beach","9":"tag-surf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","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=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}