Taken from Dubai Internet City. Using my point and shoot camera this time 🙂 Gear: Lumix LX3 Settings: f5.6 | 1/30 | ISO 100 (Dynamic Film Mode) Post process: Adjusted brightness using curves Applied some dodging and burning Adjusted hue and saturation Cheers! /Mike
This is one of the newest mall around… Mirdif City Center. Taken a few hours ago. I kind of like this mall, because there’s a lot of photography related stores and its less than 10 minutes drive from my place 🙂 Haven’t done an HDR image in a while, and I thought this particular image will work better in HDR. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10mm f2.8 Settings: f7.1 |1/80 | ISO 100 (+-2EV AEB) Post process: Aligned and merged […]
Taken at Dubai Marina at Sunset. This was taken using a fisheye lens, the good thing about the fisheye is that you can get a straight horizon if you wanted to, it’s all about how you angle that lens. I never thought I’ll use my fisheye this frequent, since a lot of people says you will only going to use it rarely, I beg to disagree; Fisheye lens always stays in my carry around bag. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma […]
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