{"id":666,"date":"2012-11-12T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T05:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2012-11-12T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T05:55:48","slug":"fishy-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chappypix.co.za\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/fishy-long-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishy Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally the Wind here in Cape Town took a much-needed break and a fun summer swell pulled in so I decided to head down to Kommetjie to check it out.<\/p>\n

The waves were pretty small in the morning but we knew by the high tide things would be on. To kill some time we checked out a few spots in the area before finally settling on good old Long Beach.
\nSeeing as it was a nice summers day, I decided to shoot from the water with a fisheye.<\/p>\n

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Tarryn Chudleigh\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucky for me the water was not too cold and the swim out was non eventful. The Surfers I swam out with, Tarryn Chudleigh<\/strong> and Tanika Hoffman<\/strong> were keen to try shoot some rights, as that was the less crowded option. Both surfers are Goofy-Foots (backhand on rights) and got a few average waves.
\nI spent most of my time trying to swim into position and dodging the bigger sets so was quite a challenge getting great photos. The other major \u201cproblem\u201d I had in the water, was the large number of unskilled surfers polluting the lineup.<\/p>\n

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Couple decent waves out there at Lonbeach<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a good thing I had a few decent surfers join us in the form of Rigard Smit<\/strong>, Benji Brand<\/strong> and Matt Bromley<\/strong> as they gave me more shooting opportunities.
\nAt the end of the session I came away with a few rad shots.
\nThe couple hours I was in the water was a great way to spend a rad summers day. This was also the first time I have shot surfing since my
Magic East Coast surf trip<\/a>\u00a0a month ago so was good to get re acquainted with a DSLR<\/p>\n

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Rigard Smit<\/p>\n

Short gallery of images form my fisheye swim this past weekend<\/p>\n\n\n \t

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