With nothing better to do on a saturday, some friends and I went on a lovely 6 hour hike along one of the ridges in on Oahu.
It should have been a perfect opportunity to shoot some great pictures but the weather gods were not on our side. I still managed to get a few decent shots and the result… well you’ll be the judge of that 🙂
I was asked by my friend Elton to shoot his band, The White Jacket, on friday the 17th of June. They were playing at Hard rock Cafe in Honolulu. It was an awesome concert and here are some of the pictures…
I was driving home from practice one night and saw this beautiful full moon. I took a couple of pictures and this one came out great.
It all depends on how you look at things….
Here are some random portraits I’ve taken during the last couple of weeks.
Enjoy! 🙂
We had a beautiful full moon tonight and it was the ultimate challenge for my Opteka 500mm lens. Well, I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed, but oh well, I kinda expected the result. This is taken with the 2x teleconverter on tho, which makes the quality even worse. At least I can see that it is the moon 🙂 
I was a bit bored yesterday and figured I could look for good photo opportunities around the house. The backyard was full of geckos being chased by  our dogs so I tried shooting that but nothing came out the way wanted it to. I got a nice shot of one of the dogs tho 🙂
but sometimes it looks pretty good that way 🙂
After spending an entire day at the beach with the Waikiki Beach Boys Canoe Club paddling and taking pictures, I realized that I still have a long way to go. Taking interesting action pictures is hard, especially when the equipment isn’t up to par. I definitely need a new tripod! I ended up with about 650 shots and i really put my Opteka 500mm lens to the test. Verdict: you get what you pay for 🙂
I captured a few good moments and a lot of paddlers in action tho… You can see some of them below.
So I figured out that i wanted to play around with some High Dynamic Range pictures. I needed some raw materials and headed towards Waikiki with my camera, and my not-so-up-to-par tripod to take some shots. I’ve always wanted to get some good shots of Waikiki’s skyline but never really looked for a good place to shoot it from until today.
So here is the result from that first (or should I say 5) try.
I played around with the settings and figured out that this surrealistic result was what best represented Waikiki today.
My second victime was a tree I was standing next to when I shot the above Waikiki picture. The result… well you decide.
I may have over-saturated it a bit, but given the light outside it looks 100% better than the real deal, and it is still kinda the real deal.
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