I wanted this set to look ‘cinematic’; I love watching movies and everytime I go to the theaters, I always look at the posters and try to deconstruct the lighting used and the post processing applied. This is my beginner’s skills take on cinematic 🙂 Gears: Canon 7D + Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 OS HSM Settings: f5.6 | 1/250 | ISO 160 Strobist: 580exii + half closed umbrella on camera top right @ 1/4 power Trigger: 7D’s built in transmitter Post […]
We had a long vacation here in Dubai because of the Eid holidays; Perfect for a fun shoot 🙂 I’m trying to mix landscapes and portraits in this set, which will be featured over the next days. I had 3 lights for this shoot, unfortunately 2 of them didn’t work 🙁 So, I just made the use of what I had at that moment since this place is an hour drive from Dubai. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 […]
**I have been working almost all night to get my wordpress running 🙁 had some problems and have to migrate all the contents including the database to a new location 🙁 Anyway… I know it’s been a while since my last post. Anyway, I’m back 🙂 I went back to the Abandoned Village in Ras Al Khaimah, now that the weather is good and the clouds are back, it’s really an awesome place to shoot. It is really a ghost […]
The beach is one of the places you can easily reach to relax. However as of the moment here in Dubai, the weather is darn too hot! Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10mm f2.8 Settings: f8.0 | 1/25 | ISO 100 Post process: 3 exposures using DRI Dodging and burning Added vignette Hope everyone’s well! /Mike
This is where I stayed at Al Hamra Village Resort. It’s a nice cozy place and it’s very affordable as well. We had a nice time here. Gear: Canon 7D + Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Settings: f6.3 | 59 secs. | ISO 200 Post process: DRI from 3 exposures Adjusted color tones Dodging and burning Cheers! /Mike
Trying out textures again with one of my favorite places to shoot, the abandoned village in Ras Al Khaimah. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm Settings: f8.0 | 1/15 | ISO 100 Post process: Combined 3 exposures (DRI) Dodging and burning Applied some perspective correction and crop the image Applied the rough texture Applied the broken texture Applied sharpening What d’ya know, weekend is coming! /Mike
What more can I say, I just love this location. It’s just full of stories and full of scenery that captures my imagination. It’s hard to explain… Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20mm Settings: f9.0 | 1/80 | ISO 100 Post processing: Enhanced the sky to get more cloud textures Dodging and burning Adjusted color tones using curves Applied some sharpening and noise reduction Cheers! /Mike
I love sunsets, in fact in terms of photography, I like it more than sunrise. Because during the sunset, it gives a great golden color far longer than sunrise and right after sunset, the there comes the blue hour that later on turns to a magenta sky. Sunset gives you 3 colors of the sky in the span of more than an hour. Which gives you plenty of time to shoot and compose your shots. That’s my opinion at least. […]
This house provokes a lot of thoughts and feelings, it makes me want to know the real story behind it… the history that surrounds this place… Anyway, I just wanted to share another one of the ruined houses at Ras Al Khaimah ghost town. Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 Settings: f9.0 | 1/50 | ISO 100 Post processing: Dodging and burning to get the feel that I want Enhanced the sky to add more mood to the picture Made […]
Still on the abandoned place in Ras Al Khaimah, this looks to be an old water well. These kind of places make me think if the future will look like this, when everything dries out… Well, I hope I won’t see that day. Anyway, I wanted to replicate the dramatic feel of the place… Gear: Canon 7D + Sigma 10-20 Settings: f11.0 | 1/80 | ISO 100 Post processing: Added some drama in the sky via dodge and burn and […]