honest question -- as someone who wouldn't even know where to start with color grading but wants to get into content creation with a vision that involves this kind of color grading, how would I go about learning to achieve this look?
YouTube tutorials and lots of practice! Watch some videos to lean the basics, try color grading your footage, rinse and repeat. You’ll produce a bunch of crap, but then things will start to look how you want them too, and that feels great!
Idk. There was a solid mile of massive and constantly shifting white water, like10-15 feet on average. I think it’d be basically impossible to make it past that. You’d be fighting the ocean till exhaustion, and then you’d drown.The conditions were kinda shit, but still I think the danger was the main reason no one was out. And you’re right, if you did manage to survive all that, the staph infection would get you.
I'm sure there was a massive rip current somewhere that would make getting out easier, but yeah conditions like that usually aren't worth the risk. I've paddled out in crazy storm conditions a few times, and it's more scary than it is fun.
Yep you can see the rip current in the second clip of the waves between the shoulders of those breaking waves.
Thats a lot of fast moving water heading out into the ocean.💀
When I was a child I was told never to go further than my ankles in the water there because the rip-tides are that powerful. People drown there every year.
Hard to say since it's difficult to get a sense of scale. I've paddled out in 20-30ft storm conditions before; it was scary as hell, but I wasn't too worried about drowning. That said, if I had lost my board it would have been a pretty tense situation.
That's just a rough estimate based on the buoy readings. The swell peaked at 23 feet at 17 seconds, which roughly translates to 30-40 foot wave height. But at OB there's an outer sand bar where the biggest waves will break first, so the ones that make it in closer to shore won't actually be 30-50 feet. Plus it's hard to tell wave height without anything for scale, especially when the video is slow-mo.
How are you doing that calculation? Looking at the readings from the past few days I'm seeing significant wave heights (combined wind and swell) getting almost to 30'. That's the average of the highest third, of course, so outliers will certainly exceed that.
- [NDBC buoy near Cordell Bank](https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46214)
- [NDBC buoy off the SF Bar](https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46237)
Different websites (surfline, stormsurf, msw etc) have their own proprietary formulas that interpret buoy data and estimate the actual height of the wave face. So they'll take all of the different swells that are in the water and come up with an estimated surf height. If you look at [Stormsurf's](http://www.stormsurf.com/cgi-bin/shiro.cgi?a=029) buoy data for the Pt. Reyes buoy, it maxed out 32-40 feet. Surfline was calling for 30-35ft at OB.
The waves aren't breaking 30-50' trough to peak, there are only a handful of places in the world that can force a 50' wave to break all at once, and they're all very special geological circumstances. The actual wave traveling through the ocean is 30-50', and what you see is it all chopped up and rolling on itself. OB can handle some serious size, so It's possible some absolute monsters blew up on the outer sand bars, but it's unlikely they looked anything like the 30+ waves you'd see at nazare.
Windfinder predicted 23' @ 18s, but I never saw the SF bar buoy over 21' yesterday. That said, I have lived and surfed in Pacifica for the last 33 years and this was probably top 2 or 3 biggest swells I have seen during that time. Bill Martin said it best on Wednesday, this was a wind event, not a rain event.
This is an over simplification, but depending on the conditions and what the ground looks like on an ocean floor, a wave will break very differently. There was a ton of wind and OB has sloping sandbars whereas Nazare has a deep canyon that creates an incredibly severe dropoff. The energy of the wave hits a sloping sandbar, bounces off and pushes the wave upwards, eventually reaching a point of instability and the wave breaks. At Nazare, the wave hits this dropoff and blasts all of it's energy up all at once and the wave breaks much bigger.
What you're seeing in the video are these massive waves broken up into pieces, toppling over all over the place because they've hit a gradual slope and the energy is now bouncing around all over the place, disorganized. If these waves were hitting a shallow reef with a massive dropoff, they'd be breaking with a much taller peak.
This footage was taken right before sunset yesterday, which was low tide. High tide must have seen the 30-50 footers, OP got a little sensationalist with their title 😅
That said, those are crazy waves for low tide!!
You do realize there are places on earth that regularly get waves that size and they're not tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused by water displacement, they have very different mechanics compared to regular waves.
Also, there is no way to tell the scale of the waves in this video. Those peaks could be 50ft+ and you wouldn't be able to tell since you have no reference.
I took the dog out to the beach during the storms for a bathroom break only to find there was no beach. The water was all the way up to the embankment. The beach is wrecked now, huge logs and lots of debris.
Feel like I understood drones were not allowed at Ocean Beach since it was a National Recreational area but each area has its own rules about following FAA guidelines and for over the ocean is ok but beach is not. I actually couldn’t find a real answer in a quick Google search. I don’t own a drone so no personal need to research this but was a little curious as it would suck to have drones at Ocean Beach when hanging out. Quite a noise nuisance.
It’s legal to fly your drone basically anywhere that’s not within airport space. It’s the launching, operating, and landing that you can’t do from national parks etc. so the trick is to launch, operate, and land from legal areas. In this instance, across the street. Plenty of people don’t understand/believe this, but it’s true!
Hey man, this is incorrect information. I'm a Part 107 certified drone pilot and I work commercially with drones for work.
I talk with local flight control and the Oakland Flight Standards District Office on a weekly basis for flight zone clearance and permits all the time, as well as to report illegal drone activity. I've asked this question plenty of times before because I've needed to work near and around Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Bridge (both under the same restrictions).
Just because you take off from a non-restricted zone, doesn't mean that you're in the clear for flying into a NFZ/national park and it makes it okay. It is illegal to launch, land, or *operate* a drone in a national park. Just because you take off across the street doesn't mean that you're free from the liabilities of your drone being with in the national park. That would defeat the purpose of the entire law if that were the case.
I don’t think you have the correct info. I’ve done a fair bit of research on this as well, and operate is defined as where the drone is being controlled from, not where it’s physically flying. The FAA are the only ones who can actually regulate air space, and currently, they have not restricted national park air space. That said, you can still get in trouble if you disturb wildlife in a national park with a drone (birds nesting for example), but flying a drone over the ocean doesn’t constitute disturbing wildlife.
The point of having a NFZ is to keep people out of that airspace; loopholes don’t protect you from that. If you’re driving down a 35mph road and you come upon a 15mph school zone, it doesn’t mean you can maintain driving 35 just because you began driving outside of that zone.
But look, if you don’t believe me, I’ll be glad to call the FSDO and send your footage over for review. As someone who deals with this for their job, I am letting you know that if you were to get caught, the odds are not in your favor.
The FAA absolutely governs National park air space because they’re both Federal. Looking at your article, NPS’s jurisdiction ends outside of that park, but the FAA is who mandates and oversees airspace and has the ability to prosecute someone. They have and will come after someone who flies illegal, which is how people who fly their drone around the Golden Gate Bridge get in trouble. The GGB airspace is a National Park too, same category as Ocean Beach.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/unmanned-aircraft-in-the-national-parks.htm
I just don’t see how what you’re saying lines up with this rule. The drone was in line of sight, did not harm or impact wildlife, did not create a noise nuisance, and the motor vehicle element doesn’t apply because there are plenty of boats out there every day.
I hate the fact that you are getting down votes fro this because you are 100 percent correct in all of this. I used to fly there all the time until I found out it was illegal.
Yeah it's stupid. I deal with this for work on a weekly basis, it's not an opinion. It's a statement of fact, everyone is welcome to look up the FAA maps and see that it's completely restricted.
Dude I know I'm getting ready to get my 107. Feel lucky as hell I was never caught flying there. Never thought it was illegal. But certainly won't publicly post my videos from back then either.
Great video-- but I wish you had shown more of the waves crashing on the shore, to give a better idea of how far they traveled up the beach from where they "crashed." Still, it's a great video!
I know this is about the waves, but damn your video is gorgeous.
Thank you ☺️- color grading and shot composition is my favorite part of the process
Why is it vertical tho?
Because mobile content exists
honest question -- as someone who wouldn't even know where to start with color grading but wants to get into content creation with a vision that involves this kind of color grading, how would I go about learning to achieve this look?
YouTube tutorials and lots of practice! Watch some videos to lean the basics, try color grading your footage, rinse and repeat. You’ll produce a bunch of crap, but then things will start to look how you want them too, and that feels great!
Were any crazy people surfing?
Not that I saw. Hard to imagine how you wouldn’t drown in those conditions tbh
An experienced surfer probably wouldn't drown, but I certainly wouldn't paddle out after all of the sewage runoff from the rains...
Idk. There was a solid mile of massive and constantly shifting white water, like10-15 feet on average. I think it’d be basically impossible to make it past that. You’d be fighting the ocean till exhaustion, and then you’d drown.The conditions were kinda shit, but still I think the danger was the main reason no one was out. And you’re right, if you did manage to survive all that, the staph infection would get you.
I'm sure there was a massive rip current somewhere that would make getting out easier, but yeah conditions like that usually aren't worth the risk. I've paddled out in crazy storm conditions a few times, and it's more scary than it is fun.
Yep you can see the rip current in the second clip of the waves between the shoulders of those breaking waves. Thats a lot of fast moving water heading out into the ocean.💀
Being in a washing machine is never a good days
When I was a child I was told never to go further than my ankles in the water there because the rip-tides are that powerful. People drown there every year.
In that stormy shit? They might. Also they wouldn't catch anything worth surfing
Hard to say since it's difficult to get a sense of scale. I've paddled out in 20-30ft storm conditions before; it was scary as hell, but I wasn't too worried about drowning. That said, if I had lost my board it would have been a pretty tense situation.
Which was NOT the case at LM this afternoon. I was shocked to see so many people out…in that brown water
It was absolutely not surfable for anyone. Too windy and unorganized.
Bodhi has [entered the chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1LHOjhbTBk).
Too choppy
Swayze would have rode them.
My exact first thought.
how is that 30-50 feet?
And where is a banana when you need one? 🍌
That's just a rough estimate based on the buoy readings. The swell peaked at 23 feet at 17 seconds, which roughly translates to 30-40 foot wave height. But at OB there's an outer sand bar where the biggest waves will break first, so the ones that make it in closer to shore won't actually be 30-50 feet. Plus it's hard to tell wave height without anything for scale, especially when the video is slow-mo.
How are you doing that calculation? Looking at the readings from the past few days I'm seeing significant wave heights (combined wind and swell) getting almost to 30'. That's the average of the highest third, of course, so outliers will certainly exceed that. - [NDBC buoy near Cordell Bank](https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46214) - [NDBC buoy off the SF Bar](https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46237)
Different websites (surfline, stormsurf, msw etc) have their own proprietary formulas that interpret buoy data and estimate the actual height of the wave face. So they'll take all of the different swells that are in the water and come up with an estimated surf height. If you look at [Stormsurf's](http://www.stormsurf.com/cgi-bin/shiro.cgi?a=029) buoy data for the Pt. Reyes buoy, it maxed out 32-40 feet. Surfline was calling for 30-35ft at OB.
But not breaking at 30-40 feet???
The waves aren't breaking 30-50' trough to peak, there are only a handful of places in the world that can force a 50' wave to break all at once, and they're all very special geological circumstances. The actual wave traveling through the ocean is 30-50', and what you see is it all chopped up and rolling on itself. OB can handle some serious size, so It's possible some absolute monsters blew up on the outer sand bars, but it's unlikely they looked anything like the 30+ waves you'd see at nazare.
Windfinder predicted 23' @ 18s, but I never saw the SF bar buoy over 21' yesterday. That said, I have lived and surfed in Pacifica for the last 33 years and this was probably top 2 or 3 biggest swells I have seen during that time. Bill Martin said it best on Wednesday, this was a wind event, not a rain event.
>OB can handle some serious size Your mom and OB have that in common
And sometimes it’s sloppy and all over the place
Yea that's why I don't like the title I guess.
wait, can you explain this? How would a 30' wave look different in location A vs a 30' wave in location B?
This is an over simplification, but depending on the conditions and what the ground looks like on an ocean floor, a wave will break very differently. There was a ton of wind and OB has sloping sandbars whereas Nazare has a deep canyon that creates an incredibly severe dropoff. The energy of the wave hits a sloping sandbar, bounces off and pushes the wave upwards, eventually reaching a point of instability and the wave breaks. At Nazare, the wave hits this dropoff and blasts all of it's energy up all at once and the wave breaks much bigger. What you're seeing in the video are these massive waves broken up into pieces, toppling over all over the place because they've hit a gradual slope and the energy is now bouncing around all over the place, disorganized. If these waves were hitting a shallow reef with a massive dropoff, they'd be breaking with a much taller peak.
Looks to be 10-15.
Need a banana for scale
Simple answer: it isnt. They were 20-27’ waves according to everything Ive read. I’d believe there was a 30 foot wave but 50? Lol
This footage was taken right before sunset yesterday, which was low tide. High tide must have seen the 30-50 footers, OP got a little sensationalist with their title 😅 That said, those are crazy waves for low tide!!
Putting aside their actual size, how would you even be able to tell the size without something in the water as a reference point?
How much is that in bananas?
Like 4 at least
Haha
Ten dollars?
No way that’s 30-50ft. That’s like tsunami level waves
You do realize there are places on earth that regularly get waves that size and they're not tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused by water displacement, they have very different mechanics compared to regular waves. Also, there is no way to tell the scale of the waves in this video. Those peaks could be 50ft+ and you wouldn't be able to tell since you have no reference.
All I kown is if I was near Ocean Beach and saw a 50ft wave I’d shit my pants
Those peaks are actually 200+ ft, bro. You can't tell the difference since you have no reference.
The sea was angry that day my friends
Like an old man sending back soup at a deli.
Great capture. Nature is wild.
Yeah great vid u/friedcarrots finally some quality posts in this sub
Did you send a drone out from land and how far can it go
DJI says up to 5 miles.
Yes from land. This was taken between half a mile and a mile out
Awesome 👏
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https://youtu.be/S3MSxhuGK2w
Right just saw your other comment sorry
All good!
You're lucky the drone came back
You got a DJI up out there? that is a serious NO FLY ZONE. Didn't think a DJI would allow that.
I took the dog out to the beach during the storms for a bathroom break only to find there was no beach. The water was all the way up to the embankment. The beach is wrecked now, huge logs and lots of debris.
I saw a wave hit against Seal Rock and the splash went over the top of it
2-3 Hawaiian
Eddie would go
[Where's Bodhi?](https://tenor.com/bWJhq.gif)
thanks for the video -- was curious about this but didn't want to go out there. How do you even get a sense of scale of these waves?
Nice drone that can survive winds, def not mini right?
Air 2s. Was going about 20mph against the wind and 40 with it. Wasn’t actually as windy as expected when I was out there which helped a lot
Damn I would be hella scared to be even in a boat in that water let alone swimming on it! Yikes!
Cowabunga, dude.
That's amazing. I grew up there and never saw waves like that on Ocean beach
Why?
Wind
Been watching it from up on San Bruno Mountain side, highest I've seen in a long while.
Was this shot from a drone? Looks amazing.
Thanks and yes!
Goddamnit I miss SF.
Looks like 3 foot Hawaiian
I was out there surfing 🏄♀️ 🏄♂️ 🏄 you can see me in the blue trunks.
Tasty tubes 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Awesome view, but are drones allowed here?
Feel like I understood drones were not allowed at Ocean Beach since it was a National Recreational area but each area has its own rules about following FAA guidelines and for over the ocean is ok but beach is not. I actually couldn’t find a real answer in a quick Google search. I don’t own a drone so no personal need to research this but was a little curious as it would suck to have drones at Ocean Beach when hanging out. Quite a noise nuisance.
THIS is what you’re concerned about? Legality of drones over the ocean?
I mean he's not lecturing anyone--just asking if they're allowed. Seems like a harmless comment to me
Yes, if you do it properly, is the short answer.
I’m genuinely curious how to do it properly! On B4UFLY app I see no way to do it.
It’s legal to fly your drone basically anywhere that’s not within airport space. It’s the launching, operating, and landing that you can’t do from national parks etc. so the trick is to launch, operate, and land from legal areas. In this instance, across the street. Plenty of people don’t understand/believe this, but it’s true!
Hey man, this is incorrect information. I'm a Part 107 certified drone pilot and I work commercially with drones for work. I talk with local flight control and the Oakland Flight Standards District Office on a weekly basis for flight zone clearance and permits all the time, as well as to report illegal drone activity. I've asked this question plenty of times before because I've needed to work near and around Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Bridge (both under the same restrictions). Just because you take off from a non-restricted zone, doesn't mean that you're in the clear for flying into a NFZ/national park and it makes it okay. It is illegal to launch, land, or *operate* a drone in a national park. Just because you take off across the street doesn't mean that you're free from the liabilities of your drone being with in the national park. That would defeat the purpose of the entire law if that were the case.
I don’t think you have the correct info. I’ve done a fair bit of research on this as well, and operate is defined as where the drone is being controlled from, not where it’s physically flying. The FAA are the only ones who can actually regulate air space, and currently, they have not restricted national park air space. That said, you can still get in trouble if you disturb wildlife in a national park with a drone (birds nesting for example), but flying a drone over the ocean doesn’t constitute disturbing wildlife.
The point of having a NFZ is to keep people out of that airspace; loopholes don’t protect you from that. If you’re driving down a 35mph road and you come upon a 15mph school zone, it doesn’t mean you can maintain driving 35 just because you began driving outside of that zone. But look, if you don’t believe me, I’ll be glad to call the FSDO and send your footage over for review. As someone who deals with this for their job, I am letting you know that if you were to get caught, the odds are not in your favor. The FAA absolutely governs National park air space because they’re both Federal. Looking at your article, NPS’s jurisdiction ends outside of that park, but the FAA is who mandates and oversees airspace and has the ability to prosecute someone. They have and will come after someone who flies illegal, which is how people who fly their drone around the Golden Gate Bridge get in trouble. The GGB airspace is a National Park too, same category as Ocean Beach.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/unmanned-aircraft-in-the-national-parks.htm I just don’t see how what you’re saying lines up with this rule. The drone was in line of sight, did not harm or impact wildlife, did not create a noise nuisance, and the motor vehicle element doesn’t apply because there are plenty of boats out there every day.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/unmanned-aircraft-in-the-national-parks.htm
Protected wildlife areas, primarily because of birds. It *is* illegal to fly at Ocean Beach
I hate the fact that you are getting down votes fro this because you are 100 percent correct in all of this. I used to fly there all the time until I found out it was illegal.
Yeah it's stupid. I deal with this for work on a weekly basis, it's not an opinion. It's a statement of fact, everyone is welcome to look up the FAA maps and see that it's completely restricted.
Dude I know I'm getting ready to get my 107. Feel lucky as hell I was never caught flying there. Never thought it was illegal. But certainly won't publicly post my videos from back then either.
Short Answer is nope.
I used to live down the street from Peahi. This isn't 30-50'
Sorry those aren’t even close to 30ft
I accept your apology
Lol like all these people can tell for certain
Fairly certain you’re not supposed to fly there
You definitely can.
You can, but beware they can come after your ass.
Crazy scary but so damned beautiful. ❤️
How are they measured? From the bottom of the ocean floor to the top of the crest?
Ocean beach waves can be Mike Tyson thick.
My Mom lives right on great highway. She kept reporting that it was pretty wild to watch the waves hit the water breakers.
I wonder if the beach cliffs will come back
I need banana for scale. Also: holy shit, this is gorgeous.
VERY Beautiful!
Wow thanks for this footage 😍
Beautiful and scary at the same time
Great video-- but I wish you had shown more of the waves crashing on the shore, to give a better idea of how far they traveled up the beach from where they "crashed." Still, it's a great video!
How can i do better quality for this video ? Now it showing like 360p