Wouldn’t Fit in the Carry-On
OK, so this shot is from a recent trip to Hawaii. Not quite SF, but it’s got all the man-made decaying goodness I love, so I’ll go ahead and put it firmly in the “anywhere” category. Send me to paradise, and this is what I’ll be excited to find.
This has to be HDR manipulated, right? How often do you see foreground objects lit this well against a still-lit sky? Believe it or not, I still generally dislike cartoonish HDR effects, and this has only been through some light contrast and shadow/highlight adjustments in Lightroom. It turns out that this light can be found almost every evening on the Kona side of Hawaii as the sun goes down. The land here is lit brightly by the setting sun, while the sky is darkened by the vog, volcanic smog, coming from Kilauea to the west, creating a light balance that I haven’t come across elsewhere. If it weren’t for the fact I only had a week on the island and a lot I wanted to see, I’d have been out wandering this coast shooting abandoned things every evening.
