Maui day 2 trash the dress style

 The dress was clean for day one but we had fun playing in the sand and surf of Maui on the road to Hana.

01/11/11 Maui Wedding

Sunset wedding 01/11/11 in Maui. Just finished having dinner with the bride and groom after an incredible wedding and shoot on the beach tonight. Here are a few of the favorites. The beach was busy with other weddings, tourists, and a photo class shooting a swimsuit model. We were the last ones to leave the beach. It was ours and ours alone as we used every last bit of light in the sky as we could.

HDR or NOT

HDR or High Dynamic Range photography is the combination of 3 or more images with bracketed exposures. This was an HDR shot of the Hood River Hotel using a single RAW file to create 3 bracketed jpgs instead of the three bracketed images from on location. HDR can capture far greater range of light. You can see the major difference is the darker areas in the HDR have a more affective fill light. This was a first experiment with HDR.

First Light on Last Day 2010

    First light captured on the last day of 2010. Why first light because I was asleep by 9:30 new years eve. The youngest kid is like a bird and wakes the second any light creeps in the window. This is the only benefit of short winter days. She actually sleeps.
    This image was taken about 30 minutes before sunrise in a construction site of for new homes. The building process stopped at a paved street with utility lines pulled due to the weakened housing market. I had to carefully hide all the existing houses, bulldozed land, and even the invasive scotch broom doesn't look so troublesome in the photo.