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Alik Griffin

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A professional video editor, and photographer with a Bachelors in Film studies from UCSD. Based in Los Angeles, I have created commercials, trailers, and other video content for various clients and platforms since 2005. I also love to write about my passions and share my insights on my blog.

Hawaii Fine Art Landscape

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Between Worlds – Oahu Hawaii

I've always loved shots of clean tropical water on a white sand beach. There is even a good one that comes as a desktop background if you're an OSX user. Well, guess what, I finally got one. Except the sand is not exactly white, close enough.

Hawaii Oahu Winds Edge

Winds Edge – Oahu Hawaii

After driving around the Island a few times, my wife and I found this cool spot. It was near China man’s hat and was one of the few places in…

Big Island Mahaiula Bay

Mahai’ula Bay – Big Island Hawaii

This Mahai’ula Bay was something else. I ended up coming here a few times. Once for snorkeling and again at night when looking for a place to take photos. I…

Oahu Park

Manini’owali Sunset – Big Island Hawai’i

On my first few days on the Big Island of Hawai’i, we had some incredible sunsets—some of the best I’ve seen. The Big Island has some of the nicest beaches…

Memory Cards Recommendations

Sandisk Extreme Pro 280MB/s UHS-II Review

The Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-II 280MB/s was Sandisks first UHS-II card. Like the Lexar 1000x, it's age shows. It does however still performs faster than the Lexar 1000x in most devices. While this card is a pretty good UHS-II memory card, it performs rather poorly in UHS-I devices. This card has also been discontinued so if you do find a copy make sure you're buying it to only be used in UHS-II cameras.

Hawaii Oahu Edge of Darkness

Save Your Skies With Luminosity Masks

Often times when shooting sunsets you'll find the area just around the sun gets blown out by the intense light. It's important to bring down those highlights to help avoid lost colors and pixels in your images which will also help give you a much deeper rendering of both colors in the highlights.

Oahu Park

Lemons To Lemonaid With HDR Photography

Although some people would disagree with the title, HDR photography, for me, has always been a great way to turn some not-so-interesting scenes into something with a little life. As…

Okinawa Ox Wagons

Ox Wagons Of Okinawa Japan

First off, I have to say Okinawa is pretty cool. It’s one of those places you have to go to or at least try to at some point in your…

HardGraft on X100

Must-Have Accessories Fujifilm X100T

A list of a all the best Lens Hoods, Screen Protectors, Cases, Straps, Thumb Grips, Soft Shutters and more. For the Fuji X100T, X100 and X100s.

Mochi Girl

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Mochi Girl – Japan Street Photography

The past few months have been crazy. All I’ve done is work, leaving me with very little time to shoot photography. I’m still trying to find the perfect balance between…

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