A couple months ago, I ’sold’ my Canon G9 to my dad, and upgraded to the Canon G11, mostly because I was interested in the better ISO performance as well as the swivel-screen, something I haven’t been able to play with since I borrowed my mom’s old point-and-shoot five years ago.  I’d already hiked the 5DMKII up Diamond Head twice in the last few weeks, so this time I just took the G11 to see what I could do with it.  Accompanied by Kaeo and Gabe, here’s what we came up with. (And yes, all shots have been post-processed.)

Overall, I feel the G11 is a great alternative for taking photos when you don’t want to haul your DSLR around!  It might not have the tonal-range or sensor size of my 5DMKII, but it’s definitely capable of taking nice, fun photographs.

We start off the second half of project emocute with the most ridiculous emo image of the shoot:

Seriously, I couldn’t help myself when their balloons got tangled!

I love the dreamy look of this next image, and the slight smile she has:

We took a break from standing on rocks to get a few photos with the rising moon:

And then Reid joined Erin on the rocks.

All in all, it was an amazingly fun random shoot!

I’ll have prints of some of these images for sale soon in my brand new Etsy shop, so stay tuned!

I confess, I love cute, whimsical things. I love heart balloons, tutus, hoods, converse shoes, umbrellas, rainboots…and hence project emocute was born. Here’s some images from our first shoot, starring friends Erin and Reid, up at the Makapu’u lookout area.

To start, Erin danced around with our pink translucent heart balloon (same kind used for the SUGARHIGH/LOVESTONED shoot!)

Erin was awesome!  She had a lot of great movement, and kept trying new things! The balloon didn’t always cooperate, but we made it work.

Then, Reid joined in to be Erin’s fake boyfriend for the rest of the shoot. They’ve been good friends since they were little kids, so it was funny watching them pretend to be couple-y!

Then, to our surprise, some paragliders started flying around us, and we got some great shots with them!

I’ll post the second half of the shoot later! The first half was more the ‘cute’ part of emocute, so be ready for some serious emo-ness later! ♥

Because I just had to…and because you and I both know that we’ve all done them at one point or another.

1.  The Mirror Shot

Strike a sassy pose, hold the camera with your head tilted ever-so-slightly toward it, and snap a photo.  Don’t turn off the flash!

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