https://riverbreak.com/videos/best-of-videos/boise-winter-river-surfing/ The River Surf Magazine Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://riverbreak.com/videos/best-of-videos/boise-winter-river-surfing/#comment-975 Dallas Winston Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:29:00 +0000 http://riverbreak.com/?p=8512#comment-975 While this video shows beautiful cinematography with regard to clarity and use of depth of field, it is typically indicative of the problem you get in sports photography when the photographer doesn't actually do the sport. The entire video is far to zoomed in on the surfers so you completely lose the context of the sport. This seems to be a common problem these days. It seems that amongst photographers, they have decided that zooming way in on a subject and holding them tightly framed shows their photography prowess. On the contrary, it shows their lack of knowledge of the sport and what a viewer who actually does do the sport wants to see. I have seen this a lot in surfing and snowboarding videography. Even during the Olympics half pipe competitions on TV, the photographers always suck the in rider to where they fit just within the frame and follow them up and down, back and forth on the half pipe. This is awful and makes for terrible viewing. It completely loses the context of the pipe and how high above the pipe the rider goes. Similarly, in surf photography if you are not zoomed out enough to see the entire wave both vertically and horizontally, you lose perspective. I have noticed the filming of surf contests on the World Surf League circuit is pretty good. Go look there. While this video shows beautiful cinematography with regard to clarity and use of depth of field, it is typically indicative of the problem you get in sports photography when the photographer doesn’t actually do the sport. The entire video is far to zoomed in on the surfers so you completely lose the context of the sport. This seems to be a common problem these days. It seems that amongst photographers, they have decided that zooming way in on a subject and holding them tightly framed shows their photography prowess. On the contrary, it shows their lack of knowledge of the sport and what a viewer who actually does do the sport wants to see.
I have seen this a lot in surfing and snowboarding videography. Even during the Olympics half pipe competitions on TV, the photographers always suck the in rider to where they fit just within the frame and follow them up and down, back and forth on the half pipe. This is awful and makes for terrible viewing. It completely loses the context of the pipe and how high above the pipe the rider goes. Similarly, in surf photography if you are not zoomed out enough to see the entire wave both vertically and horizontally, you lose perspective. I have noticed the filming of surf contests on the World Surf League circuit is pretty good. Go look there.

]]> https://riverbreak.com/videos/best-of-videos/boise-winter-river-surfing/#comment-270 Riverbreak Magazine Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:24:00 +0000 http://riverbreak.com/?p=8512#comment-270 Yeah, Boise has really become the center of Idaho's river surfing community! Yeah, Boise has really become the center of Idaho’s river surfing community!

]]> https://riverbreak.com/videos/best-of-videos/boise-winter-river-surfing/#comment-269 Idaho River Sports Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:39:00 +0000 http://riverbreak.com/?p=8512#comment-269 Sweet! We're always on the lookout for the best Idaho's rivers! Sweet! We’re always on the lookout for the best Idaho’s rivers!

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