While the weather in Hawaii was definitely warmer than Washington, it wasn’t necessarily less rainy or cloudy.  For mom’s last night with me, we decided to walk down to the water and see if maybe the sun wouldn’t peek out at the last minute and give us a beautiful sunset.

We didn’t end up having any luck for the sunset.  The sun just stayed behind the clouds and slowly just…left.  However, we were still at the beach and I didn’t drag my stupid tripod down there for no reason, so I shot anyway!  For the following photos I thought it would be neat to play with different types of color grading to see if I could make them more interesting with color and see if I could convey a different mood.  Maybe it worked?

One technique I really wanted to try this trip was a super long shutter speed to blur the watery waves almost into a haze.  There were a few issues with this… one is that I had to have a filter that almost acted like sunglasses on my lens otherwise the photo would have been too bright.  However, I don’t have a filter in the size I need so I used an adapter and this spaced it away from the front of the lens and I got a huge black ring around every photo.  Guess I get to practice it again sometime… Overall I got a few photos that I think are pretty neat looking, even if they weren’t really what I was going for.

So obviously we’re out at sunset, so we got to walk back in the dark…  I love taking night shots, so mom had to put up with me stopping all the time to take pictures of streetlights and cars randomly.  I tried some different editing techniques with these as well!