Photo Shoot

I finally got a chance to do a photo shoot and work on my photography skills. This is a pic I took of my girlfriend Malia Funk, on the south side of Oahu. It was a great experience to play "photographer" and capture stills of such a beautiful girl. Doing this photo shoot definitely fuels my ambition to become a better photographer as I learn about lighting and ideal scene selection in a photo, through real life practice. I'm looking forward to the next photo shoot!

HDRI image at Hilton Hawaiian Village

Learned about taking HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) in school the other day. I really like the photos, the images really come to life, though they almost appear unrealistic with the heavy dynamic range. Heres a photo a took and created through Photoshop.

Moloka'i Diving

I was extremely blessed in past couple of days for my opportunity to go up to the island of Moloka'i for a diving trip. My buddy Derek LeVault invited me to sail up to Moloka'i with him and his friend Victor to go and do some spearfishing. Victor the boat captain sailed us through the channel on his 32 ft sailboat overnight in relatively ruff seas. I was surprised on his sailing abilities considering how little sleep he got. The weather wasn't too great during the trip and because of the north swell we weren't able to dive on the north side of the island. We ended up doing well though, we got a bunch of good fish and found some nice reefs to dive on. It was also really cool to see lobsters in some of the reef holes in moloka'i, though we didn't end up catching any.  I was especially stoked on the mus and uku I shot. Heres a pic of some of the better fish i ended up shooting. We also got a bunch of uhus, goats, rois, and other reef fish. 

New Pet

This is a short Time-lapse i made of my new pet Sulcata Tortoise,Squirt . The time-lapse consists of close to 250 photos of 1 photo every 10 seconds. The clip was then slowed down through edit. 

Project Roi

I've been compiling footage and begun the ruff editing of the next dive video. This new video is gonna be focused towards the invasive roi, and the clean up of the reef. It is going to incorporate footage from both myself and my dive partner Brandon. I hoping to produce a video thats really up beat and to the point, minimizing boring shots and trying to keep it action, and by that I mean just action of Rois -> to keep it focused on invasive. I'm thinking that this video will be popular in many spearfishing groups throughout Hawaii, as the eradication of the invasive peacock grouper (roi) has become an apparent issue and mutual goal to eliminate. I hope that you guys are looking forward to the next video. I look forward to posting it!

SPEARFISHING OAHU HAWAII

Finally after hours of editing, I got my video up on youtube. Started to get creative with this video and mixed it up. I filmed my dive partner Brandon, to get a third party perspective. He also filmed me using a three prong. I felt that those addition really helped to make the video unique. I also added the banner for the club Na Kane O Ke Kai. I thought it would be considerate of myself to rep the club that I am a part of, along with HammerHead Spearguns- my dive sponsor. I hope all of you enjoy the video and subscribe to my channel. Mahalo

East and Deep

Super cool dive video that you should watch!

This is a dive video that my dive partner Brandon Terry just put out. Its got a ton of action and takes place in many of the same spots that my videos are shot in. It's his first video so he's trying to look for new ways to improve with consumer comments. At the time we both complied footage and edited videos, so i'll be coming out with a dive vid soon. My video is pretty much done, just trying to get a couple more people to review it before I publish it to the web. Final stages of editing! Anyways everyone that looks at this blog should view this video and subscribe to his channel. Mahalo Nui