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Sailing the South Pacific (Post #19)

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Beinelisa is the guest at Coffee Chat and Rebecca Kelly is on the Mainstage – plus a photo tip.

Nuku Hiva is home to the largest statue in the South Pacific: Tiki Tuhiva.  Many people will have their picture taken with the Tiki Tuhiva in the background.  Here is a tip that will produce a better picture, not only here but whenever you want to have your picture taken in front of something huge.

Many people will stand immediately in front of the item of interest, and they will have the photographer stand well back to get the object in the frame.  This results in the person being very small and, in many cases, hard to identify.  My suggestion is to have the person stand close to the camera, with the object in the background.  This will produce a photo of the person where you can easily identify the person, and the object in the background is the same size.

Here is an example of Tiki Tuhiva using both techniques.

Many people will stand next to the large object of interest making the person very small

 

To fix this – stand closer to the camera. The large object is the same size but now you can easily see the person of interest

Entertainment Director Bienelisa Manalang was Ian’s guest at Coffee Chat this morning.  We learned that all the guest entertainers are booked from Seattle and the ship has very little input into who is scheduled for each segment.  The ship controls the show times and other details once the guest entertainers arrive.  Ian said that there are 40% fewer guest entertainers than there were before COVID.  Many entertainers have moved on to different jobs or are no longer performing on cruise ships.

Bienelisa Manalang

Rebecca Kelly was on the Mainstage for her second show and was outstanding.

Rebecca Kelly

4 Comments

  1. Vanda

    Pete,
    Great photo tip.  I do enjoy sailing vicariously with you and Judy.   Do you have a subscribe button or will you add me so I get alerts on each post?

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    • The Inside Cabin

      When you go to the front page – you should see a pop up notice after 10 seconds – that says subscribe to the news letter…OR go to the bottom of the front page and you should see a box labeled. “Get our Newsletter” The Newsletter is the Blog…thanks!

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  2. Sherita Cox

    Great photo tip, thanks Pete!!

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  3. Doug Martin

    Is the cruise director getting complaints about the significant cutback in the quality/quantity of the entertainment?
    I get on the Celebrity Reflection tomorrow morning for my first Celebrity cruise. Let’s see how they do. I was on the Rotterdam back in early December with Chris Rademaker. We were somewhat disappointed with many aspects of that product.

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