Surf photographers are creative animals and they have been known to enhance their images for assorted reasons.
They either want to disguise surf locations, turn goofies into naturals or just add some external spice to the image.
In the late 70s travelling NZ surf photographer Ric Chan snapped shots of barrels at Rabbits Beach Yallingup, then he enhanced one of images and had it published in a Surf Mag.
Image #1. 1978 Rabbits right hand barrel by Ric Chan (original image).
Ric reversed an image of a Rabbits right-hander so it appeared as a left-hander and then pasted an image of a goofy-footer surfer in the barrel.
Ric’s enhanced image was published in an early 80s West Coast Surfer magazine under the caption ‘Fantasy Wave’.
Image #2. 1980s Fantasy Wave by Ric Chan (enhanced image).
Surf photographers are creative animals and they have been known to enhance their images for assorted reasons.
They either want to disguise surf locations, turn goofies into naturals or just add some external spice to the image.
In the late 70s travelling NZ surf photographer Ric Chan snapped shots of barrels at Rabbits Beach Yallingup, then he enhanced one of images and had it published in a Surf Mag.
Image #1. 1978 Rabbits right hand barrel by Ric Chan (original image).
Ric reversed an image of a Rabbits right-hander so it appeared as a left-hander and then pasted an image of a goofy-footer surfer in the barrel.
Ric’s enhanced image was published in an early 80s West Coast Surfer magazine under the caption ‘Fantasy Wave’.
Image #2. 1980s Fantasy Wave by Ric Chan (enhanced image).
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