Honolulu POTN Hawaiian Railway Mini meet

[aiea1]

There will be a mini meet at the Hawaiian Railway (http://www.hawaiianrailway.com/)in Ewa.
It consists of a walk around the Train yard , then a 90 minute
train ride to Kahe Point and back.

Date and Time
Suggested time to meet there is 11:30,

Train Ride at 1 PM

Date is Sunday August 17th

Cost

$10.00 a person for the train ride.

Attending

Aiea1 + Wife
tiarehi
geekaleek
Guest Kaimana

[tiarehi]

How to get there:

- Take H-1 west, exit on 5A Ewa.
- Stay on hwy 76 south for 2 1/2 miles.
- Turn right at Tesoro Gas Station (Renton Rd.), continue for 1 1/2 miles.
- Turn left onto small lane w/cul-de-sac.
- Entrance to Hawaiian Railway will be on your right, through the chain link fence.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2743287698_2a9b449d9b_o.jpg

[Samanax]

Wish I could go but I'm doing that Workshop on the 16th and I don't want to leave my wife home with the dogs 2 days in a row. And I have a lot of yard work to do too.

Have fun and take lots of pictures!

:) Chris

[tiarehi]

Will see you at the workshop :D

[geekaleek]

wish i could make the workshop, but i'll probably go to this instead :)
i just realized that the hawaii flickr studio thing was on a friday, so i probably cant make it.

[G35Driver]

David count me in on this one.

[motion_projekt]

Damn. I have a YMCA thing with the teen program. wish i could make this mini-meet.

[aiea1]

Updated attendees Mike and Luis , sorry that Kent and Chris can t make it

[Samanax]

Damn. I have a YMCA thing with the teen program. wish i could make this mini-meet.I thought you were quitting the YMCA? Didn't you clean out your office?Sorry to disappoint folks. I could not cover the story today. I was busy cleaning out my office at the YMCA. heh.

time for a new beginning. :-)Updated attendees Mike and Luis , sorry that Kent and Chris can t make itI'm going to try and make it to this meet, but I won't know until next weekend if I can or not.

:) Chris

[motion_projekt]

I thought you were quitting the YMCA? Didn't you clean out your office?I'm going to try and make it to this meet, but I won't know until next weekend if I can or not.

:) Chris

its for a different branch of the Y. I've left the corporate office. but i still volunteer for the Nu‘uanu Branch's teen program.

[Samanax]

its for a different branch of the Y. I've left the corporate office. but i still volunteer for the Nu‘uanu Branch's teen program.Ahhh, I see...good man.

:) Chris

[Ainoko]

I might make it. I have friends visiting from Seattle, but I'll see if I can make it.

[Linkzi]

Sorry can't make this one, I need this day for my keikis. I'm working 6 days a week this month and spent the last two weekends for photography. I did label this meet as XIII on the front page of the Hale.

[aiea1]

Sorry can't make this one, I need this day for my keikis. I'm working 6 days a week this month and spent the last two weekends for photography. I did label this meet as XIII on the front page of the Hale.

We will miss your attendance

[G35Driver]

anybody else comming?

[geekaleek]

Gonna be mini meet for real... not that bad. Haven't been there so it should be fun

[tiarehi]

Never been there too...

[aiea1]

If any one is interested in a car pool, you can park at my place and ride with me from Halawa Hts to Ewa. PM me if you want a lift out there

[Samanax]

I really wanted to attend this Mini-Meet but I won't be able to. Have fun guys, and take lots of pictures.

:) Chris

[tiarehi]

Thanks everyone who came out, was a fun ride!

Mahalo!

[aiea1]

This was a very interesting and fun shoot, and we had Kaimana from the flickr group join Norris, Mike, Mary and myself. Here are a cpl shots, the rest are on my flickr

The Ewa Train yard


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2774086266_0d259e632d_b.jpg

Rail Stop

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3268/2773250891_4e0cd60ba6.jpg

Going to Kahi Point
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2774100306_46ffba6c74.jpg

[Linkzi]

Looks like you guys had fun! Hope you don't mind Dave, I borrowed one of your photos because it is one that can be played with for many different effects.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2774406139_a84a5fb31b_o.jpg

[aiea1]

Neat.. :cool: I say this car has seen its better days

[Samanax]

Looks like you guys had fun! Hope you don't mind Dave, I borrowed one of your photos because it is one that can be played with for many different effects.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2774406139_a84a5fb31b_o.jpgCool PP. Did you do this in Lightroom 2 or in Photoshop CS3? And what did you do to make the photo look like this?

:) Chris

[aiea1]

Here is a cpl of shots Mary took with her Canon SD800 IS

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2775638026_d6983803b0.jpg

And the sign that tells all you want to know about Ewa !

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2775636854_d252e33d1f.jpg

[G35Driver]

Sorry I couldn't make it

[Samanax]

Looks like this was a good Meet. Would you guys consider going here again in the future?

David, I looked at your Flickr page and really liked the shots of "Engine No. 12" and the "Ewa Yard".

I see Kaimana made it to the meet. Met him at the Photo Workshop on Saturday. Really nice guy. Glad he joined you guys.

:) Chris

[Linkzi]

Cool PP. Did you do this in Lightroom 2 or in Photoshop CS3? And what did you do to make the photo look like this?

:) Chris

Lightroom2. Almost all my color work is done there. Basically 100% fill light, heavy shadow, high vibrance, clarity, and high red channel.

[tiarehi]

Linkzi, do you create new catalogs for new batch of pix? I tried it, pretty cool feature.

[Linkzi]

Linkzi, do you create new catalogs for new batch of pix? I tried it, pretty cool feature.

Haven't tried that yet. Will it get confusing with many catalogs?

[tiarehi]

Haven't tried that yet. Will it get confusing with many catalogs?

No actually, each catalog is "reloaded" everytime you load another one, so you only work on one catalog at a time, just a matter to save the catalog in a different folder in your computer and voila!

It is very convenient when you do multiple batches, don't need to import the folders every time. Once you are done with one, it is saved.

[tiarehi]

Here is my contribution, still more pix to process, will upload them on my Flickr later:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2777691890_56806c3bd9_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2776837953_35f336f280_o.jpg

The set on my FlickR (http://flickr.com/photos/lwn/sets/72157606826324089/)

[aiea1]

Here is my contribution, still more pix to process, will upload them on my Flickr later:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2777691890_56806c3bd9_o.jpg


The set on my FlickR (http://flickr.com/photos/lwn/sets/72157606826324089/)

Great work on this shot Norris. I like the way the engine apears to have smoke coming out of the stack, Maybe this is a ghost Engine :lol:

[Linkzi]

Great work on this shot Norris. I like the way the engine apears to have smoke coming out of the stack, Maybe this is a ghost Engine :lol:

That is what I saw too. Cool!

[Samanax]

Here is my contribution, still more pix to process, will upload them on my Flickr later:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2777691890_56806c3bd9_o.jpgWow, that sky is a bright blue! How'd you process it to get it that bright?http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2776837953_35f336f280_o.jpg

The set on my FlickR (http://flickr.com/photos/lwn/sets/72157606826324089/)Nice B&W conversion. Shadows?

I checked out your Flickr and really like Hawaiian Railway-3065...cool PP done to it.

:) Chris

[tiarehi]

David and Lincoln, thanks!

Chris, all the PP was done with some Lightroom presets and adjusted to my "taste."
The bw conversion might be a good candidate for the Contest, but I have not yet put anything to it.

For the rusty train, the PP was overdone, lots of flaws in the process and it was done quick and dirty!

Thanks

Note: Those pix are from the 5D, I still have to process the one from the 1D. Today, I will be taking the 5D to Canon Service, shooting some pix at F22 shows some real nasty dust!!!

[tiarehi]

#1

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2780985346_8875e457ac_o.jpg

#2
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2780985702_673269a342_o.jpg

#3
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2780126855_7e6694a72a_o.jpg

[Samanax]

I like that sepia tone shot Norris. And is that Kaimana in the middle shot? Looks like his Nikon. And I wonder how old that ticket punch is? It looks way over-built...they don't make things like that anymore.

I was talking to Kaimana at the Photo Walk and he said he really enjoyed going to this meet and that he wouldn't mind going to Hawaiian Railway again soon. I'd like to go too. Any chance of doing another Meet there?

:) Chris

[tiarehi]

I like that sepia tone shot Norris. And is that Kaimana in the middle shot? Looks like his Nikon. And I wonder how old that ticket punch is? It looks way over-built...they don't make things like that anymore.

I was talking to Kaimana at the Photo Walk and he said he really enjoyed going to this meet and that he wouldn't mind going to Hawaiian Railway again soon. I'd like to go too. Any chance of doing another Meet there?

:) Chris

Thanks Chris,

The second shot is actually someone else with a Sony DSLR.

Kaimana mentioned about the '"revisited" railway next time, I am ok with it as long as I am still here.

You or Kaimana can start another thread for this type of mini meet.

[geekaleek]

Strobist meet at the railway!
:)