Diane & Scott

As a favor for my sister I had helped out her friend with some photos. Diane & Scott were scheduled to get married in the near future. Insisting on an early shoot to avoid harsh lighting on numerous ocassions, their schedule wouldn't have it. Bright blue skys at Kiholo Bay.

Amber & Keoni

Amber & Keoni, have both been busy making preperations for their wedding in December, working, and along with taking care of their one year old son finding the time to do things is always a task in itself.  Amber had asked my wife about doing some last second engagment photos, and as busy as I am, we were able to squeeze something out of the early AM hours, here's what happened.

Kalino Portrait

Bruce Kalino had asked me about doing a family portrait, of course I wasn't against it. Now I'm not a fan of indoor portraits because they always come out looking like elementry school photographs (no offense to those who do that sort of thing) but too plain for my taste. Since the family was staying at the Royal Sea Cliff, we had decided it was most convient for everyone to have the portrait done there. The Kalino family was very enthusiastic and very patient about doing the photoshoot. It was fun to shoot this one and I enjoyed it! Along with some of the beer and pupu's afterwards!

Info: Very harsh lighting once again. I had subjects backlit with the sun behind them, but the light was still too much. I was having a hard time overcoming the sun and balancing my strobes. 1st location was a great spot, but crashing waves and ocean spray in the air + my strobes made some shots look too hazy & noisy. Eventually we moved to a sidelight shot that worked out much better then the back light, but I lost a good location. Used two SB600's on light stand cross lighting, one of my strobe's batteries began to lose power so I was getting intermitent operation. The harsh lighting was beginning to make my subjects too uncomfortable so I decided to finish up with one working strobe, and some ambient for fill. Lenses used: 18-200vr f3.5-5.6 & 10-24 f3.5-4.5, processed with Nikon Capture NX2