Westward Over Waikolohe

The wonderful thing about shooting in RAW is that you can recover a lot of photographic information and components even when the initial photo looks bleak.  In the example below, the day was much more drab than the final edit appears, especially the sky, which was largely white. But a DSL shooting in RAW absorbs a lot of components of a photo, like the shadows, highlights, contrast, saturation, and exposure, beyond the range of just shooting in JPEG, and I was able to recover a lot of detail and vibrance in the sky and the lush landscape of the Waikolohe Valley courtyard area bounded by the Aulani Hotel's two wings.  The result is a much more dynamic photo than the initial file--one that evokes the Hawaiian atmosphere much more dramatically!

Gazing across the Waikolohe Valley at Aulani.