How I got this shot.... Stevie Andrew Who Da Guy in Eastern Surfing Magazine

Above is an article profiling Stevie Andrews, a local shredder from Deerfield Beach, FL.  I wanted to give some insight on how I got both the portrait and the half page action shot in the July 2010 issue of ESM magazine.  The action shot was taken while on a trip with the Island Water Sports team to  Nicaragua in November 2009.  On this particular day of the trip we took a boat and found this break just reeling off the rocks all by itself.  The shot was taken with a Canon 1d Mark 3 and Canon 70-200 2.8 IS L lens.  I was bobbing around in a boat even with the breaking wave, with an excellent boat driver, even though he had no toe nails.....!  It was late afternoon so the sun was starting to set, creating a nice contrasting background ad asymmetrical light on the surfer.  According to Surfing Mag's Jimmy Wilson, this place has not been shot before, that he has seen, which I thought was pretty lucky that we caught it the way we did.  The shot was cropped a little with minor adjustments in photoshop.  The portrait was taken in a parking lot as the sun was setting with one light ( a canon 580ex with small chimera soft box attached to a light stand) about 7ft above and to his right being held by my fellow photog and good friend Nathan Hamler.  I was trying to get a more dramatic and serious pose out of the shot.  Thanks to Stevie for ripping!   P.S. try to ignore the half naked dude in the ad on the right, that is not my image!! lol
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