Today, I wanted to play more with textures. There’s a lot of techniques that you can use when working with textures and I’m trying to develop my own way of doing it. Getting bits and pieces here and there and trying out which suits my taste. I’m still a work on progress 🙂 Anyway, that’s my hand in front of the camera 🙂 Gear: Canon 7D + 50mm f1.8 Settings: f2.5 | 1/30 | ISO 3200 Post processing: Modified the […]
Taken from Ibn Batuta, India Court. If you are visiting Dubai anytime soon, this mall should be in one of your list. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10mm f2.8 Settings: f5.0 | 1/15 | ISO 640 Post processing: Dodging and burning Adjusted exposure via curves Applied texture using digital blending Applied sharpening Cheers! /Mike
This is one of the places I like to shoot; simply because they just let me be. Very photographer-friendly (so far). This was taken at Dubai Marina, right next to Marina Mall. Nice place to just relax and sip coffee (or tea whichever suits you). Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm Settings: f8 | 30 secs. /ISO 100 Post process: Dodging and burning Digital blending and masking from an underexposed shot (DRI) Adjusted exposure using curves Applied sharpening and noise […]
Macro photography is probably one if not the hardest type of photography for me. So I give a lot of credits to macro photographers, they really deserve it. It requires a lot of patience and technique to master this area of photography. I am always fascinated with macro photography and this is me trying one… Gear: Canon 7 D + Tamron 90mm f2.8 Settings: f4.5 | 1/160 | ISO 640 Post processing: Cropped the image to square format Adjusted vibrance […]
I have been into seascapes lately, here’s another one. This particular one was taken from Fujairah, one of the seven emirates here in the UAE. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 + ND8 Settings: f11 | 0.4 | ISO 100 Post processing: Enhanced the sky to get a dramatic sunset Used curves to correct the exposure on certain areas Applied sharpening adjusted hue and saturation Cheers! /Mike
I was at the beach around noon time, walking around finding some angles to shoot. Luckily nature decided to give me clouds today 🙂 Here you go, another Burj Khalifa shot together with the other Dubai skylines 🙂 Gear: Canon 7D + Tokina 11-16 Settings: f14 | 1/320 | ISO 100 Post process: Dodging and burning Adjusted curves settings to give me more sky details Adjusted hue and saturation Cheers! /Mike
Taken from Jumeirah Beach, Dubai. The railings fascinated me, I wanted to create small frames and the railings just did that for me. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm Settings: f11 | 1/800 | ISO100 Post process: Under exposed the picture using curves Enhanced the sky to create a dramatic look Dodging and burning Blending modes to get more details and texture Happy weekend! /Mike
Street photography is not really my thing; I am not comfortable shooting on busy streets. And because of that, I am missing out on things; street photography offers a different kind of images, it captures “life” of people and a lot more… Just trying out different things, which is what 365 is all about anyways. Gear: Canon 7D + Tamron 18-270mm f2.8 Settings: f8.0 | 1/15 | ISO 3200 Post processing: Used different blending modes to expand the tonal range […]
Got this one on my way home; Today was cloudy and there were sprinkles of rain. This is the transition of weather towards summer here in Dubai. Gear: Canon 7D + Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Settings: f4.5 | 1/30 | ISO 100 Post process: Used 3 exposures and blended them together manually (DRI) Dodging and burning Adjusted contrast Applied some blending modes One more day to go before weekend! /Mike
Today, nothing fancy, just a normal simple photograph. This is Dubai Internet City, you can see Canon, Microsoft and Siemens building right next to each other. This is usually where I have my short break or lunch, sitting on the bench and just munching my subway sandwich or just passing time. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm Settings: f11 | 1/50 | ISO 100 Post process: Used different curves settings Applied some sharpening Adjusted vibrance and saturation Cheers! /Mike