All images shot with my Canon G9, about 30 feet from the stage.
Overall, a really good concert! I’ve been a fan of these guys forever, so it was great to finally see them play in person. The first few songs had some poor quality vocal sound mixing, but they fixed it eventually, and the rest of the concert was really enjoyable. They even covered the Jackson 5 and played “I Want You Back”, my favorite Jackson 5 song! Still wish I could figure out how to get a DSLR into Pipeline Cafe though…
Some people keep cheese in their refrigerator drawer. I don’t!
(And yes, that is some Polaroid Type 55 in there…and no, I”m not giving it up for anything!)
I finally went ahead and mashed together the random video clips of Koda that I’ve taken with my G9 so far in Windows Movie Maker! It’s not much, but enjoy!
Smitten Photography, the company I am a part of along with my boss, Daeja Fallas, is now offering wedding photography services in addition to our portrait photography. Our angle to set us apart from all the other wedding photographers in Hawaii is to focus on shooting fashion editorial-style images, as that’s her specific area of expertise. Along with the general wedding event coverage, we will set aside time with the bride, groom, and wedding party to create a series of 6-8 images that work as an editorial story. How great would that look as a series of wall-mounted prints?! It’s also a way to capture posed portraits without a formal stiffness to them that is so often found in wedding photography.
We’re hoping to get examples up soon!
I wanted to post a shout-out to Hawaii Photo Rental today for being such a wonderful service to have here in Honolulu. I love it so much that I even signed up for Yelp today just to post a review for them. Josh, the owner, is extraordinarily helpful in getting you the equipment you want, and offers great prices too! Before Hawaii Photo Rental started, I had only dreamt of being able to rent high-end gear, as I would have had to order it from California, but now with their partnership with Imageworks in Kaimuki, they are a 5-minute drive from my apartment. They are always expanding their stock, and besides lenses and camera bodies (both Nikon and Canon), they are even offering underwater housings, lighting equipment, and more! I cannot be enthusiastic enough about having this service available to us local photographers on Oahu, because it gives us the opportunity to try a lot top-of-the-line equipment without spending thousands of dollars on it.
So, local photographers or those planning on visiting, be sure to check out Hawaii Photo Rental! Look them up on Facebook and Twitter too!
One reason you might realize your desk is in serious need of cleaning is when you can make an item-search game out of it. (Notice that the floor is clean, while the desk is not, as everything is mostly out of puppy-reach.) Click the image to see a bigger version, and see if you can find all the items listed below.
1. 7 Polaroids 2. USB Card Reader 3. 580 EXII Flash 4. Brother’s Navy portrait, mostly hidden. 5. How I Met Your Mother Season 3 Disc 3 DVD 6. Wacom Intuos3 Tablet 7. Wacom Intuos3 Tablet Pen 8. True Blood Season 1 Set 9. Cell Phone 10. Keys on UH Lanyard 11. Roll of Kodachrome 64 in Canister 12. 5D MKII with battery grip and 24-70mm f.2.8L lens 13. Smitten Photography wedding promotional postcard 14. Western Digital Passport portable hard drive 15. Storyboards for “Teddy Bear Apocalypse” (Wouldn’t you like to know…?)16. Xbox 360 17. Playstation 2 18. Ink drawings in a comic-style done by me 19. Postcard of Haleakala Crater 20. World of Warcraft mousepad (Gift from Sarah!) 21. Health insurance bill 22. TV remote 23. Swimming goggles 24. Binder of DVDs 25. Flash diffuser box 26. Microfiber lens cloth 27. Japanese Spitz puppy named Kodachrome 28. Sunglasses 29. Puppy Nutri-Cal gel tube, apparently leaking. 30. 2 dog brushes
Okay, most of those are pretty obvious, but they do give you an idea of the variety of stuff that I had on my desk.
And yes, I did clean it!
Today, Kodak announced that they will no longer be making Kodachrome film. But it will live on forever, partly in Koda’s name, partly in Paul Simon’s song, and as a legend amongst photographers. I’ve never shot Kodachrome film myself, because by the time I was into photography it was far too expensive to buy and process for it to be wasted on me, but I do have this roll of Kodachrome 64 that I will keep as a memento of a different era in photography.
This photo was processed with the demo version of Alien Skin’s Exposure 2, set to Kodachrome 64. It’s unfortunate that this filter will be a ghost of film past, but at least it’s something?
Born April 11th, 2009, Kodachrome, or Koda, is a female Japanese Spitz puppy!
Waiting for a table outside of Little Oven, the boys started posing. Two out of those three hats are actually mine, as they had raided my closet before heading out.
Kaeo and I went to the zoo yesterday while we waited for Gabe to get off of work. While I love my Canon 70-200mm f.2.8 IS, I’m dying for the 100-400mm! I have the Canon 2x extender, but I’m less than thrilled with the quality of the images it produces in shadowy, low-lighting. But, I’m not a wildlife photographer, so until I am, I shall make do.
The tiger cubs have gotten so big! Here’s a photo of one that I too back in January/February:
And here they are now!:
One of the older tigers was napping in the other pen:
One amusing moment was when we saw that a cat had infiltrated the spoonbill exhibit. He was mostly eating the birds’ food, but was also chasing around some of the duck for fun.
Mmm, patterns and contrast and odd-numbered subjects…
And finally, for some reason I often get photos of wild birds at the zoo that I like more than the ones I have of the zoo-birds. For example, my Mejiro photo, taken with my old Digital Rebel about four years ago:
This time, I got a photo of a male cardinal flitting around collecting food from the sidewalk and feeding it to his baby that was following closely behind:
I swear that I will someday make a photo book of all my tiger photos.
