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I saw this youtube video on how to do waterdrop photos with regular household equipment and was inspired to try the same. I didn't even have some of his gear like lights and tripod so I had to improvise with my pop-up flash and hand holding. I just shot a sink filled with water w/ a dripping faucet. It is a lot more difficult to focus for max sharpness with hand holding but I did manage get some 'interesting' shots..these are my first try but definitely will try again. I had to do some PSE fix to get the lights and shadows of the water drop.
My nephew did these w/ his point and shoot at max shutter speed.
This one is pretty cool and I reworked it in PSE which added some color..
He decided to try w/ lego drop .. it was really a hit and miss....
This one was a hit and came out sharp.. pretty cool..
The super moon was a few months ago, but the full moon this month is also quite large and I saw it tonight. The moon was quite high up before the sunset.
This was taken with the Lumix DMC-ZS25 at max zoom set to sunset mode and exposure set to -2.0. The reddish/yellow tinge comes from the sunset mode. This is really sharp considering the Lumix is a small point and shoot.
I got a chance to try a Lumix DMC-ZS25 that is a newer model of my Lumix. It comes w/ Creative mode that takes pictures in Miniature. This feature is so cool and is all done in camera. I decided to take some pics of the Golf Course near by. I waited for a Sunday so there'd be more golf carts in view. They came out really cute, just like those you see in a toy train set.
Pics with people don't look as cute so I did have to do some photoshopping to remove a golfer.
I'm not sure what the technique is, but to shoot correctly, you need to keep the subject you want in the focus point, otherwise, it'll come out blurry.
This kinda reminds me of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood...
Then I decided to try the swimming pool below..
Some car lot near by.. It was great fun.. As long as I get to play with that camera, I'll try and look for more miniaturized opportunities.
The Pan Pacific Parade commences the festival each year. This year, the parade was shorter than the previous years but it still had many lively and colorful costumed performers from different countries. This year, I wanted to travel light so I used my lightest lens, the 50mm. Although it has the F1.4 for low light later, on the other hand, since it didn't have zoom, so what I see is what I got. Thus, I got the chance to practice trying to frame the shots. We found a good spot w/o anyone blocking us, but as the sun was setting, I got a lot of flare from the sunlight which really threw off the metering. I tried my best to rescue the signage shot in PSE.
I practiced being patient by waiting until the people came into my frame and that's pretty tough.
I think the most predominant color of this parade was red.
And.. Purple..
OK... I didn't know Texas was part of the Pan Pacific, but it's nice they were able to come to Hawaii to participate in a parade and they were dressed in Aloha attire too.
Sometimes I got lucky when they stop to perform in front of us so I got several shots.
As the sun was gettng lower, the trees blocked the direct light and I got better lighting. These guys were great and they posed for me.
This shot came out really cool as the light came thru the trees at just the right time.
And the finale, the giant float.. these guys looked exhausted..
I caught the back of the giant float. I did have to crop to get a better closeup.
On the walk back, I spotted this Mango tree, can you imagine, in the middle of Waikiki..full of mangoes so I had to take a shot.
