A walk in Waikiki by Punaguy
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
AlooooooHa!
I had to attend a seminar in Oahu over the weekend and got a chance to stay overnight in Honolulu for a change. This shot is from a building that house's the Hard Rock Cafe in Waikiki at about 7 am Sunday morning. This street is called Kalakaua named after our ruling King from many years ago. If ever there was a tourist trap this street which runs for a couple miles will offer you just about everything you could imagine. Many high end shops are located here and it's busy 24/7.
I use to live close to this area, and I'm glad I made the move to the Big Island. Just too damn crowded for my taste, but still a great city to photograph.
This was taken with my little 4 meg camera that hardly gets used any more. But due to airline restrictions on baggage, I opted to bring this little guy along. This is one image processed into 3 images....-2,0,+2, then combined into the image you see. Some layer tweaks, a curve adjustment, and some other things I can't remember now. As always bigger is better.
Thanks for having a look, and many mahalo's for dropping by...Peace everyone! Aloha~

Comments (18)
Wow thats a pretty building.
Great colors here in those windows!
Very nice job. Very unusual to not see many people. Excellent.. Aloha
A colorful building front. Not many people up yet.
Fantastic colors Dave and some animation left in the people's movements. Your post work paid off very well.
I've been to the islands three times, and never had any desire to go to Honolulu. I'd rather be out hiking with you and Eroll. LOL Great colorful shot; I don't imagine it's that quiet very often.
Excellent capture.
wow, this is incredible, what a wonderful building
that almost looks like a 3d model... some picture.
WOW!! all the colors in that building ~!! really a wonderful capture and composition here Dave exceptional work!!!
Wonderful place!! Excellent POV!!
You picked a great subject~ Cool Architecture! We have renders that look like photographs and here is a photo that looks like an awesome render.... I am so lost... lol
A very colorful one!
Wow, even for your little camera, this is a great shot. It looks a lot like an artists drawing for a future project... Love your tweaks...Such a beautiful capture. Aloha
4mp - Ya done great! I'm really fascinated with this image. The more I look, the more I see. For instance, the planar areas of the building really stand out because they are well saturated. In a sense, I think the 4mp works in your favor. The trees have about the resolution I would expect but it works. The street life has a ghostly feel. I don't know how you did it, but you made it all work!
Very eye catching colors alright.
Heya Na'e. :^) I was wondering if this was an HDR. It definately has that kind of look to it....It's interesting to see that you can still get a wonderful image of this artistic quality, with just a wee cam ... and a whole lot of ingenuity. Just goes to show, it isn't all about the cam, eh? ;^) Great job, sweetie. Hugs and alohaaaaaaaa! -M :^)
VERY COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!