FILM AND AIR PRICE STUFF

AIRLINE PRICES GOING UP? REALLY?
...yes, on average by 13%!!!!!......

Have you noticed that the price for air travel are heading skywards? Last week, a couple inquired about travel to Honolulu from Birmingham, Alabama during March of 2012. Their travel agent quoted them $1500 per person. The cheapest price they could find on Expedia was $1200. The cheapest price I could get for them was $800. Yes, it's cheaper, but still...what the hell right? If a couple were to book early, in my experience, they should be able to land a $450 of $550 airline ticket. Not right now.

According to a recently published article, North American airfares have jumped 13% on average, with some cities citing airfares rising up to a whopping 28% price increase from last year. The airlines cite rising fuel cost and rising demand.

I honestly am not sure if prices will go down later this year. So if you're planning to come to Hawaii to marry, make sure you book those tickets asap before prices start to really go up.

FILM FILM FILM
Film still is king

The summer movie season is in full swing, and so far, every blockbuster movie that has hit the big screen was shot on Kodak film. Many amateur videographers, especially those in the wedding industry claim that their digital SLR's are capable of shooting the same quality of movies, but they have no idea what they are talking about because many of them never worked in the movie industry...(like me!) Many photographers also claim that digital pictures can match the quality of film. All hogwash.....

Well, why don't you be the judge? The following pictures were taken from one of my latest weddings.

This is a 24 Megapixel unedited digital picture

This is the same digital shot, touched up to add a little more color, contrast, and warmth.
All digital photos must be touched up in order to make it acceptable to the client.

This is shot on film and is not touched up at all.

Film just naturally makes everything feel more alive. Skin tones accurately replicated. Let me back that up. All tones, not just skin tones, are more accurately replicated in film than digital. Digital does not give a photographer true color tones, but a base to which a photographer can add color to try to come close to CREATE true color tones.

Shooting directly into the sun with a DSLR... DIGITAL SHOT
Do you notice the sun is a gigantic fireball?

Shooting directly into the sun on a film camera. Notice the sun is not a gigantic fireball.

Another advantage of shooting with film is that it has a very high tolerance to contrasting light situations. If a photographer overexposes a digital shot, he looses detail very quickly. But if a photographer overexposes a negative, he actually gains detail. This becomes very apparent when shooting directly into the sun with a digital camera. Digital cameras just can't shoot sunsets very well.... The sun just turns into this huge ball of fire because of the high contrast nature of the shot.

Okay, so beauty is in the eyes of the beholder right? To me, film is still king. It's obvious to me...how about you?

Anyway, this is my two cents for this weekend. I'm heading back to video editing hell. Talk to you all soon!


Steve Young
Your Hawaii Wedding Guy