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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Photography in the dark

I shot quite a lot of images in low light in the last year. These were processed with a heavy hand and though these are not favorites, I think they are interesting.

This image is meaningful for me because of all the photography classes I have taught. This is not one of my students but very well could be.

I have no idea what the boy on the right is doing with his head down so low but I love the dreamy quality the ocean took on when I smeared the pixels to the maximum.

I've found that night photography is very hard to do whether you are trying to capture reality or not. This is a rare shot that "looks" exactly as it did to my eye at the time.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Hawaiian Night

Some night photography from Kauai. These were all taken on full moon (or nearly) nights.

25 second exposure, taken from Anini Beach looking east towards the Kilauea Lighthouse.

69 second exposure, taken in the Hale Manu garden driveway.

Handheld exposure at Haena Beach looking east.

3 second exposure through some palm fronds. The moon is a ghost image (reflection) caused by a filter. I cloned away the over exposed moon.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I'm shooting thousands of images...

And I'm quite behind in processing and posting. Shooting here on Kaua'i is challenging. The sea, wind, rain, and sky conditions all contribute. Shooting in the morning in tough as there is often heavy cloud cover rendering everything that should be colorful as gray. Linda found a great website I've been using for assessing sky cover early in the morning (http://graphical.weather.gov/) I'll be switching to more evening shoots.

As shown here, some palms and moon at night. The vertical image is a composite of the moon exposure and the palm exposure.

Nikon D3, Nikon 24-70, 1/2 sec.for the palms and 1/60 for the moon, f/19, ISO 400, tripod used.

Nikon D3, Nikon 24-70, 1/2 sec., f/19, ISO 400, tripod used.