Jason Tag Photography

This morning I had a shoot with the extremely beautiful Kari.    It was our first shoot together and the first artistic shoot I’ve done with my new Nikon D80.  Both Kari and camera were wonderful to work with… although I thought that Kari was the more beautiful of the two!

We started of the shoot at the summit of a mountain near Honolulu.  It’s one of my favorite places on Oahu.  Not just to shoot there but also one of those places to just sit back and take in the beautiful view of the entire southern shore of Oahu.  I jump at the chance to have that view as a background in my images.

After about 30-40 minutes we followed an old road that led to the second summit.  We did a few shots of dance poses on the road and then moved into the bamboo forest.  It was a great shoot and such a beautiful way to start the day!

The new camera performed very well.  There were only a few instances where I got tripped up when the camera refused to fire the shutter because of the center of my composed image was out of focus.  This is something that I’ll have to find a way to turn off or find a better way around.  Other than that I felt very comfortable with the camera.  I was also able to take some shots at higher ISO settings and found that the noise above ISO 640 is fairly bad but that’s to be expected when you start cranking up the ISO like that.  Most of the shots I took at ISO 200 and the noise is virtually non-existent.  And most of the shots turned out very well.  It’s a comfortable camera to work with and I never felt that it lacked anything.

All in all, the camera gave me great results and so did Kari!  Here are a few images from today’s shoot… Enjoy!

Kari - Sunrise on the Mountain - Jan. 18, 2009

Kari - Old Road - Jan. 18, 2009

Kari - Brick Wall - Jan. 18, 2009