Ke'e Beach at the beginning of the Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii.
A couple of kids playing on Ke’e Beach in Kauai. This beautiful beach is at the beginning of the Na Pali Coast.
This was with my Canon 5D II and 24-105 at 67mm. Exposure was 1/50 of a second, f/10 at iso 500. The aperture of f/10 gave me the depth of field to keep the kids and the background both in focus. I needed to bump the iso to 500 to get enough of a shutter speed to freeze the movement of the kids and the waves. Like in my last post, I used aperture priority – but in this one I actually dialed down the exposure compensation to – 1 stop to keep the waves from being blown out, and the black rocks dark. Goes to show, gotta always check the historgram.
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That is really lush vegetation. All these Hawaii posts are making me envious.
Ron, did you hand hold that or put the camera on a tripod? In general, do you use a tripod?
@ Richard – you definitely need to go!
@ Vera. Good question. When I captured this it was a quick detour before hitting the Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast, so I think I was just hand-holding. But, I almost always use a tripod – well, I would say 95% of the time.