Filmer Profile – Steve Cleveland

NCS: How did you get into filming?

SC: I got into filming back in 1973 when I was taking photography at the University of Hawaii.

NCS: What was your first video camera?

SC: My first video camera was a Canon GL-1. Before the Canon, I was using film cameras.

NCS: What was your first surf flick?

SC: My first surf flick was called “On Safari to Stay”. We shot it in Super 8 film with a Beilu
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Filmer Profile – Ryan Moss

If your out surfing and you see someone floating around with a camera and a redbull there is a good chance that it’s Ryan Moss filming upcoming talent such as Nat Young, Matt Myers, Austin Smith-Ford, Kyle Buthman and many other already known surfers.  Norcalsurfers got a chance to take him out of the water and sit down long enough to answer a few questions about how he started filming, his current equipment, and experiences out in the water.  Check it out…

NCS: How did you get into filming?

RM: I was attending college at the University of Hawaii Manoa, when I met Ricky Lesser for the first time. Ricky is single handedly the biggest influence on me wanting to get into making surf movies. It all started when we took out one of his small digi cameras that happen to have movie mode on it to this really shallow reef break just North of Sandy Beach on Oahu. I vaguely remember the video looking absolutely horrible, but I remember just frothing on it at the time. I wanted to shoot more and more and just be the best at shooting water. I bought my first camera a year or so later. It was a Sony PC 1000. It really didn’t have an adequate enough zoom to shoot from land, and I thought sitting on the beach filming all day was boring anyway. So shortly after I came across (by means of Ricky) SPLWATERHOUSINGS.COM. Sean Labrie is the man, he has always been super supportive of my throughout my career. He has kind of been a mentor in a way. His housing are super lightweight and durable. So now that I got my SPL plug out of the way we can continue, THANKS SEAN. So I got my first housing but didn’t really know what I was doing. Ryan Beppu, another all around insane water photographer from Oahu took me under his wing for a while and taught me the ropes. Since then it’s been all a blur, pretty much constant routine of trying to film with the top guys around Santa Cruz, watching Taylor Steele videos, and editing.

Behind the lens with Ryan Moss