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You know, iPhoneography is cool. It’s a lot of fun and you can do some pretty amazing things. Having followed digital photography from the beginning, I have to admit I’m hooked.
But nothing beats taking my DSLR out, putting it on a tripod, setting it up with an ND grad to get shots like this. I’m still a big camera guy at heart.
Aloha Sunday. Hope you have a great week.
Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. Shortly after I wrote the blog post about the Cotton Carrier, I received an email message from them letting me know that they posted a link to it on their blog, and asked if I would be interested in swapping mine out for their latest and greatest model with the camera tethers.
It’s almost as if they were reading my mind. One of the reasons I love the Cotton Carrier is it eliminates the straps around my neck, but the downside to that is it also eliminates my drop prevention strategy, so I’ve been a little nervous about that. I accepted their offer gladly, and they shipped me a new system, complete with the tethers and handstraps.
In exchange, they asked me to post a photo of myself with the system against a Hawaiian backdrop, update the blog and send my system back for R&D evaluation. Easy enough.
Thanks, Cotton Carrier. Great system, great folks.
Peter Liu sporting the Cotton Carrier at the beach in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. Photo by Kathy Becklin.
There’s something about Makena Cove that lends itself to slow shutter shooting. Every time I go there, I have the urge to capture the movement of the water as it ebbs and flows.
Yesterday evening, I was there with my friend Meliezza Walker, who was visiting from Texas. She’s a portrait shooter but wanted to learn more about landscapes, so I handed her a tripod with a ballhead and we set off for the beach.
We explored some of the nuances of slowing the shutter at various settings to see what changed, then I showed her how to use an ND grad to shoot the sunset. We had a lot of fun.
So who’s up for the next photowalk?
Water play at sunset at Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
Water play at sunset at Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
Water play at sunset at Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
Water play at sunset at Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
Sunset at Makena Cove, Maui, Hawaii
Things are back to normal after the tsunami scare we had last week. The ocean is calm and the trades are blowing. Typical sunrise in Kihei, Maui, Hawai’i, on the beach where I do my morning run.
Sunrise, Kihei, Maui, Hawai'i. HDR, 7 exposures, 2 stops each, tone mapped in Photomatix 3.2, finished in Lightroom 2.6.
On my way home from the store, I noticed the clouds near the horizon starting to glow a faint red, so I thought it might be worthwhile taking the gear to the beach in case they popped. They didn’t, but it was a nice sunset anyway; the first we’ve had in a while because of the vog and rain.
Good way to close a Sunday. Everyone have a great aloha week.
I love shooting panoramas, and decided to do one while I was shooting a sunset a couple of weeks ago. Check out Photogler for details on how I produced the image.
The winds have been howling since last night and it’s been raining on and off throughout the island. You don’t usually get a good sunset under those conditions, but when I went out on our South Maui lanai, I could see it was raining from upcountry through Wailuku and into Ma’alaea, but the spot on the horizon where the sun was going to set was clear, and the clouds in that area had just the right density for a good show, so I grabbed the gear and took off.
I’m glad I did. What a great way to end a Thanksgiving weekend.
Winner of the 2009 Monterey Bay Aquarium World Oceans Day Photo Contest
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