Night Fishing

Night Fishing  [Canon 5D]
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawai'i
April 16, 2008
(click in the image for a larger version)

After spending the afternoon hiking and photographing around Makapu Point (see previous post), I wandered around Waikiki with the tripod in the evening. The ambient light from the street and the hotels behind me provided ample illumination for some long exposures on the beach. I really like how the motion in this 30-second exposure tells the story of the fisherman preparing his line for another try.

The major correction to this image was an adjustment to the White Balance in Camera Raw (I could have also used Lightroom, but I haven't added these images to my Lightroom catalog yet). The camera was set to Auto White Balance (AWB), which wasn't the best setting given all the ambient spill from the hotels and the street lights. You can see a comparisons between two shots below. The one on the left is the first photo I took that has not been corrected, and the one on the right is the shot I posted above, which I corrected in Camera Raw by setting the white balance to Tungsten and then customizing it with the Temperature and Tint sliders. While this fixed the overall white balance pretty well, the mixture of light sources left the beach a bit too green for my tastes. To fix this I added two adjustment layers with layer masks in Photoshop to apply some further minor color corrections to the sand and also to the ocean. You can also see my shadow with the tripod in the far right of the second shot. I cropped this out for the main version posted above.Click the thumbnails image to see it larger.

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2-Day Creative Collage Workshop

This coming weekend, April 26 - 27, I will be teaching a 2-day class on Creative Collage with Adobe Photoshop in Monterey, California. This was one of the classes I taught in Hawai'i last week. The price is only $200! This is a really great deal because most 2-day hands-on classes like this are more expensive. Seating is limited, however, so if you want to attend, call 831-373-4600 during business hours this week to register. More about this class.

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5-Day Creative Collage Workshop

If you want a more in-depth collage workshop experience, I'll be teaching a 5-day version at the excellent Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging in Los Osos, California June 2 - 6, 2008. The extended time frame of this class allows for more time to explore personal collage projects, not to mention enjoying the beautiful natural surroundings on the coast near Morro Bay. More about this class.