This is Mall of the Emirates on a Thursday. 2 days left before the shopping festival comes to an end. Just having some fun time with the fisheye lens. It really does give you a different outlook of the world 🙂 Wow, it’s weekend again! Cool! Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10mm f2.8 Settings: f4.0 | 1/20 | ISO 640 Post processing: Dodging and burning Increased vibrance and saturation Applied sharpening & noise reduction Happy weekend! /Mike
I got a new addition to my family of lenses. Sigma 10mm f2.8 Fisheye lens 🙂 I missed shooting architectural subjects and I confess, I miss HDR. I haven’t done HDR for almost 2 months now. I just wanted to check if I still have the skills to create one. Alright, back to regular programming, this is one of the malls here in Dubai, named Dubai Festival City. Almost all the malls here are now on promotions because of Dubai […]
I took this around 7:00am, it has been foggy lately here in Dubai. I have to hurry taking the shot before the sun gets too bright, so I didn’t have the chance to change my lens to a wider one, at that time it had the Canon EF 100mm f2.8 macro lens on, which made a nice tighter crop. It a bit hazy but I like the colors of the sky. How I took this shot: Gear: Canon 7D + […]
I’ve been posting a lot of colorful stuff lately, time to tone down things a little bit 🙂 These are the Emirates Towers, which were once the beacon of Dubai. Somehow, despite their architectural brilliance they are slowly being forgotten. Sorry for being a little dramatic today, I just felt sad about these buildings when I was taking my shot. Just sharing… Gear: Canon 7D + Tokina 11-16 2.8 Settings: f8.0 | 1/250 Post Processing: DRI’d two exposures on Photoshop […]
This is the Deira City Center Metro Station. I took this right after I purchased my new lens 🙂 Tokina 11-16 f2.8. This is the first photo from this lens (apart from my testing shots from the store). I haven’t been inside the Dubai Metro, I’m planning to go soon though. It is only a few months old… Anyway, here is how I took this shot: Gear: Canon 7D + Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Settings: f2.8 | 1/30 + 1/20 -1EV […]
This is Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth. Together with the world’s tallest dancing fountain. I decided to go back there and shoot the Burj at night since I’m getting a lot of hits from the day version, which can be found here. I, like many others, was surprised when it was named Burj Khalifa since everyone is already used to calling it Burj Dubai. Anyway, it’s their building so they can name it whatever they want to. I […]
I had a lot of office work today 🙁 Speaking of work, this is our office building. I have been going in and out of of this building for almost 6 years. And this is the first time I took a real picture of it. Anyway, nothing fancy today… What I like about this is the mixture of the blue lights on the floor and the red cast courtesy of the break lights of the car on the left. Taken […]
I’m starting to feeling it… It’s not easy but in a way its good because you learn to push yourself to your limits. Today is day 3; I was in the office the whole day doing the stuff that I do pretty much all week and there I was, on my cubicle thinking of day 3. I really couldn’t think of anything to shoot when you are answering e-mails at work. Until it’s 6pm and it’s time go home. This […]
This is day 2. This is an old Mosque in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. This project forces you to go out and experiment. It is exciting in a way, but I have 363 more pictures to go! Here’s how I took it: Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 Settings: f8.0 | -3,0,+3 exposure bracketing Post processing : Aligned and tone mapped in Photomatix Cleaned up in Photoshop CS4 (Curves, dodge & burn, contrast) Added texture and made the texture white […]
Taken from our balcony at Christmas day. What’s so special about this roundabout on Christmas day? Nothing. That’s Christmas for you here in the Middle East. Well, at least we celebrated in our new flat; had some grilled chickens, pork liempo, carbonara, mixed buttered veggies, leche flan and some chocolate mousse. How I took this shot: Settings: f9.0 | 30 secs | single exposure (no hdr) Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 + Manfrotto Tripod Post processing: Adjusted contrast Sharpened […]