Hawaiian Sky
Hawaiian Sky
This compilation of photos represent a few of the most
important lessons I’ve learned throughout my life, particularly here in Hawaii.
Look up. Some of the best views come at the end of a steep, rocky, dangerous
summit. There is beauty in the storm clouds. Some of the greatest risks open
the doors to the greatest rewards. The Hawaiian sky has been a place of refuge
for me. I can literally hike into the clouds. I can get lost in my thoughts
while staring at the ominous clouds grazing over majestic mountains. When I
look up I reach a certain levity in my thoughts. Everything balances out; the
things that are stressing me out suddenly seem so small. Through these photos
one can see how the colors of the sky affect the colors of the ocean, and the
viewer can also see how the colors change depending on where the sun is in the
sky.
For these photos I used both a 24mm lens and a 50mm lens. I
love the 24mm lens to capture the grandeur of the clouds and the width of the
sky. The 50mm works well to capture the waves and people to get a greater depth
of field. I typically shot the photos in manual and adjusted the focus to
either the clouds or the ocean. Through editing the photos I was able to
achieve greater clarity and contrast. The colors I have pretty much left the
same. On the black and white photo I made the whites brighter and the blacks
darker so that the contrast would be greater, because I wanted the photo to
really put the viewer in a dream-like state. Overall, I wanted these photos to
be relatively ordinary, but also to capture the extraordinary beauty of the Hawaiian
sky at its best moments. My biggest inspiration for this project was Mark Gee,
he is a night sky photographer, but I wanted to capture the same immensity of
the sky as he does.
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