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.

Sammi & Jack

Sammi & Jack were already married, however because of their busy lives they've never had the chance to go on a honeymoon. When Sammi told me they were coming to Hawaii, and wanted to schedule a portrait session, I was more then happy to be their photographer.  Both, Sammi and Jack were easy, and fun to work which made the entire session relaxing, I had a great time taking their photos.

Lenses used: Sigma EX DG HSM 50mm F1.4, Nikon AFS 10-24mm F3.5, processed using Nikon CNX2 & PSCS3.  2nd time using CTR301P's decided to try it and see how they work, no miss fires in daylight, well as far as I know.

Strobist:  2 SB600's on my custom Dual light stand, camera right.  F7.1, 1/60 sec, ISO 100 @ 1/4 power bare

Waikaloa Engagement

We went to Waikaloa to meet our couple @ the Hilton for some engagement photography. It's a good thing our clients were down for anything, because man it was hot! and at 5:00pm on this day the light was very harsh and very difficult to deal with. Walking around, in these conditions was not fun for anyone. For whatever reason the couple had requested photographs be taken from the chest/shoulder area up, I was curious but never asked why they wanted to do that. Because of the harsh lighting I hardly had a chance to take photographs, and to save the photo shoot, I worked the reflector to shade our clients while Claire took most of the photo's.

Strobist info: last picture in series was shot with two Nikon SB600's one was placed behind the couple to provide rim light and to illuminate the tree. I couldn't get this light into the position that I wanted to without having my light stand sitting awkwardly on the stairs behind them leading into the water and/or potentially falling into the water this explains the sidelight on his face. F4.8 @ 1/200 ISO 400, strobes @ 1/4 & 1/8th. The second light was placed up and camera right. nothing spectacular The 3rd shot in the series was shot with a single SB600 pointed down and shot through an umbrella F4.8 @ 1/200 ISO 400 strobe @ 1/4 all strobes triggered with SU800. Lenses used: Nikon AFS18-200mm VR, Nikon AFS 50mm f1.4