The Illusion of Depth
On Sunday, with 6-8 foot of south-east swell lighting up the Sydney coast, the Storm Surfers team rolled into the Cape Solander carpark. The two leading surfers, Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones, have recently taken Maroubra surfer, Mark Matthews, under their wing. At the Cape however, the roles were clearly reversed - Matthews giving the other two a lesson in shallow-water tuberiding
With a slew of 3D cameras filming each ride from multiple angles the finished product will offer the illusion of depth to the Storm Surfers audience. Throughout the morning Matthews provided his own trick of the eye - toying with the wave as if was a fun waist-high beachie and not a brutal knee-deep reefbreak.
That's Ross getting squeezed in the first sequence while the single shots show Matthews surfing with a poise that belies the depth of the reef just below.
Rod Owen took all the water shots, Mark Watson the land shots. //STU NETTLE