Hawaii

Comments Aug 13, 2012 | Beach, Hawaii, HDR, HDR guide, Landscape, sand, Sunset, Travel, trees, tutorial, USA

Hawaii, to home or to beach

This particular image has also been shot in Maui Island. I used my tripod and cable release to shoot 5 bracketed images of the scene with 1 EV step. I then merged the files in Photomatix and further post-processed using Lightroom and Photoshop. I tried to avoid using too much color saturation espiecially at the ...

Comments Apr 9, 2012 | Hawaii, HDR, Nature, sky, Sunset, Travel, USA

Hawaii, the fire

Apparently I spent a lot of time shooting the sunset in Hawaii Sunset and sunrise times are great for photo shooting, therefore, they are called “Magic Hour”. I made this one by lowering my camera to the sand as much as possible. I tried to frame the sun, to get a long view of the ...

1 comment Mar 18, 2012 | Beach, Hawaii, HDR, HDR guide, Landscape, Nature, Sunset, Travel

Hawaii, gathering at the beach

While I was in Maui, there was a wedding at the coast. It was very beautiful weather, great sky. Surely I set up my tripod and made my shooting…

Comments Feb 8, 2012 | Hawaii, HDR, Nature, sky, Travel, USA, wave

Hawaii, the blanket

Another sunset scene from Hawaii, Big Island. This photo is made by 5 images with 1 EV steps. I combined them in photomatix. At the initial settings, I chose semi-automated ghost removal. By doing so, I selected only the sea and the wave, then for this are I chose only the brightest photo. Therefore, the ...

Comments Feb 2, 2012 | Beach, Hawaii, HDR, sky, Sunset, Travel, USA

Hawaii, the sunset wedding

This is the wedding from my good friends. They got married last September in Big Island. The weather was very nice as usual, the sunset was like a dream in Hawaii. For this one, I combined 2 images, one for sky, and one for them and foreground…

1 comment Jan 24, 2012 | Hawaii, Landscape, Nature, Sunset

Hawaii, the life is beautiful

I have not watched The Descendants yet but I think the life in Hawaii is always beautiful. If you have such a great weather all the time, every sunrise and sunset like watching a cartoon, great nature to hike, snorkel, surf and so on…what else you would like from life This is an HDR from ...

Comments Jan 14, 2012 | Hawaii, HDR, Maui, sky, Sunset

Maui, another great sunset

This from our lovely Hawaii trip. Every sunset in this island was like watching a cartoon. The color in the sky were so vivid…I made this HDR with 5 steps 1EV. I also used 8 stops ND filter to get longer exposure which works pretty good when the water in motion is framed….