Hello fellows,

My name is Roland Roderjan, and I just arrieved here at Cafundó to be an Art Director colaborator with focus to web design. I´m crazy about design, photography and digital technologies, but I also came to bring a little bit of salty water to the Studio, since we are installed in an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

Besides of creating, I have as a hobby taking photography in the water, where I mix this two universes, surf and design! And here I will tell a little bit about how these photographies that transports who sees the wave to inside it are produced.

The difficulties to produce these photos are many, after all the photographer carries all the equipment being submerse in the water, taking waves on the head and being positioned really far from the mainland.

The first question is how not to ruin all the photographic equipment (they are really expansive today) with the sea water. For that exists waterlight boxes, wich are individually produced for each  specific camera and lens. Is really recommended to buy it from someone you trust, after all it must not be nice to see the water ruinning your equipment.

Once the photographer has the camera well protected inside the waterlight box, only remains to him having attitude and disposition to wear the duck foot and lauch himself towards the waves. This part can be really hard, because the bigger the waves, cooler will be the pictures, but stronger they will come against the photographer. If the water is cold, like it is a lot of times in Floripa, the willpower must be much bigger!

Already set where the waves breaks, the photographer will have to have the security to swim and survive to the waves strenght, and still take care to all the basic points of the photography:  framing, focus, adjust the luminosity and press the trigger.

The result will depend on many factors, like sunlight, waves quality, the sea color and the hability of the model surfist. And of course, a little bit of luck always helps!

After all is just publish in a blog, send to a web site or post it at flickr.  If you get great photos you can even sell some to a magazine. If the aim is to get some money, what will not miss  are surfers wanting to buy your photos and brands wanting photos from their athletes. But what is really worth in all of this is the emotion and the register!! Taking photos this way is a sport too, like surfing.

Currently I post my photos  in my blog just for fun, but I already spent and intire year in Central America working as a photographer in Costa Rica and Panama beaches, what brought to me an extra luggage of profissionalism, adventures and friendships.

So, to finish, I will show  you a really good movie made in Ireland in 2010 and it´s called “Dark Side of the Lens”, wich showed a little bit of this aquatic art, and how beautiful and gloomy it can be!

Aloha!

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