The Bitter Cold

Went down to the harbor with Rain to try and catch the sunset as I usually do on Sunday afternoons.  I was not prepared for the near freezing temperatures that greeted me near the water.  Three layers of clothes and the wind still ripped through my skin.  I felt like my fingers were going to fall off.   I only shot six pictures before deciding that I would rather maintain the use of all my appendages than stay out any longer.  The pictures I took turned out like crap.  I miss the summer.  I'll have to prep myself if I plan on shooting for the next several months.  Note to self: buy a ski mask, hand warmers, and better gloves.  

On a warmer note, here are two more pics from Hawai'i.  Probably two of my best thus far, in my opinion.

 This was taken near Makapu'u Lighthouse.  It was near sunset and my younger brother and I were about headed back to the car, but I decided I wanted to try one last image.  The ocean was actually quite rough and I was in a somewhat precarious position.  One good wave and it would have been goodbye to my camera.  Nonetheless, I took a few shots, and this is what came out of it!  I kind of forgot the settings on this, probably f16ish and 3-5 seconds.  In photoshop I used fill light to bring out the definition in the rocks, and also boosted the orange/yellow from the sunset and the turquoise in the ocean..

This was a sunrise shot at Yokohama Bay.  There is this really awesome rock formation that the waves break on.  Sometimes it even shoots water through a large hole in the reef (which you can see in the top left of the rocks).  I had to take two exposures for this shot as the sky and the ground was quite contrasted.  The sky was probably 1/15 of a second or so, while the water was about 3-4 seconds.  I wanted the time to be long enough to catch the movement of the whitewater but slow enough to get the hint of a wave.  The two exposures were then combined in photoshop where I increased the strength of the yellow/orange from the sunrise.