Aloha Festivals Hoolaulea - 09/18/2010

It's the Waikiki block Party for the annual Aloha Festivals and I decided to check it out. I knew it would be dark so I decided to bring the 50mm F1.4 lens and left the flash at home. I ended up battling the Orange-Yellow color and was also limited on how much I can capture in the frame. Again, like the sunset on the beach, I was caught in a sea of people who showed up.
I tried all kinds of settings and wanted to avoid too much digital noise so I settled on Shutter Priority at 1/100 and ISO 640. Since it was so dark, the aperture was automatically at the largest setting. I then had to use Photoshop Elements to brighten the photo.
All the food booths had very long lines.
This booth with beautiful and colorful stars caught my eye. Soooo cool!!
They also sold these colorful wooden frogs that croaked when you run the wood sticks across it's back.
It's cool when you can walk down Kalakaua Ave. w/o any cars.
There were also large crowds at the entertainment stages. I had to take these blind by raising my camera over the crowd. It's really challenging and thank goodness for PSE to fix all the problems. There was a huge flood light that brighten the Duke Kahanamoku statue so I took this before I left.