Photo: Matt Aden

Photo: Matt Aden // Supper Time

This was a weird day. I shot these photos around 1 PM which is insane considering how glassy the water was. The water was actually this color that day. I was baffeled. Water temp 74, air temp 70 so the algae in the water is growing like mad. Glassy Green tubes and NOBODY out. The thing about San Clemente is the wave are so fast that alot of really good surfers are groomed there. You make the drop and either pull into a quick tube or launch an air, not much time for anything else.

Camera Gear
Cannon T2i – Del Mar Housing Project

Camera Lens
ROKINON 14mm Ultra-Wide Angle

Camera Settings
Iso: 100
Shutter: 1/500
F/ 2.8

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Photo: Matt Aden

The one that changed everything! It was a cold winter evening down in San Diego. I had never taken a wave photo before and decided that this was going to be the day. So I suited up, put on my fins and dove in, not knowing what I was about to get myself into. Bloody hands, an ice cream headache, scratched housing lens port, and numerous bumps and bruises later I realized that wave photography wasn’t going to be easy.  I swam around for over an hour, couldn’t figure out where to position myself, or what setting to put my camera on. Should I take a video?  Or should I take a single shot? This was definitely a learning experience (it still is every time).  I took about 500 photos that day and it turned out that the last one was the only one that counted. This perfect wave rolled through and cleaned me up. It washed me, my camera and my dignity up onto the dry reef, destroying my new lens port and cutting my hands to shreds. By the time it was done I was 200 yards from the break trying to clear the cob webs. When I got home and looked though the pictures I saw this gem, my first and favorite picture taken to date. It sits framed above my desk at work as a daily reminder of the beauty and power found deep in the heart of a wave.

-Matt

Camera Gear
GoPro HD2

Camera Lens

Camera Settings

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