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I got lucky for this photograph. First, there were low clouds flying around Dubai skyscrapers, which is far from a common thing in Dubai. And then a ship entered into my long exposure and lit the bridge from below. Really enjoyed this place!
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Another clear and relatively cool (25 C) evening in Dubai, it is such a treat to go out shooting these days! I already had two shots from that vantage point, but never had a blue hour one.
A little break in my latest B&W series, this one really deserved to be shown in glorious colors! :)
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Taken during a photo walk with my buddy Rajesh who had a short stop over in Dubai on his way back to Singapore.
Processed from a single RAW, no HDR, no Digital Blending. A rarity in my photostream!
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The Burj Al Arab, seen from the Al Qasr Hotel.
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Panorama shot with the Nikkor 24mm PC-E Tilt Shift, hence avoiding the usual UWA lens distortion found in the many photos shot from that vantage point.
Full resolution: 84 Mpix.
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Emirate, in der Nähe der Oase Liwa
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One of those rare cloudy nights in Dubai. I was also lucky with the reflections, just after I took this shot, the wind kicked in and the reflections were gone. I waited for 30 minutes for the wind to go down and take more shots but then I gave up.
Special thanks to my new photog buddy Sebastian who had the great idea of bringing me to this place that cloudy night.
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Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been.
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Taken during a photo outing last evening with my flickr buddy Abdul Rahman from Qatar (arfromqatar).
This is a kind of 'rescued' shot, since we were caught by a security guard after I only shot 2 exposures of my usual 5. I had to manage with those only 2 exposures, hence I produced a more darker shot than my usual ones, but I am still happy with the result.
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I had the chance to get access to the 101th floor of a building under construction in Dubai Marina. Amazing 360 views from there. I will start with a non blue hour shot for a change :)
You can clearly see the fully illuminated Palm Jumeirah Island on the background. The tower on the left is the Princess Tower (95 floors), from which I took the fog shots. The cool shaped tower on the right is Ocean Heights (83 floors), from which I also have a series of shots. And the tower in the middle is the Elite Residence (91 floors).
The world's tallest residential building ("Pentominium") is currently under construction in Dubai Marina and will have 122 floors.
Nikon D800 + Nikkor 14-24mm Vertorama / Digital Blending
"The Force of Nature is a series of sculptures by artist Lorenzo Quinn that depict a woman pivoting the world around with a piece of cloth. The woman, presumably Mother Nature, is swept with a gust of wind, forcefully draping her attire and hair behind her. There is a vigorous sense of motion radiating from each installation that also performs a remarkable balancing act between the Earthly sphere and its navigator.
Having displayed slightly different versions of this piece all over the world, from England and the United States to Monaco and Singapore, each sculpture provides its own sense of twirling motion without the slightest bit of physical movement. The ripples in her garment and the strain of the cloth wrapped around the globe offer enough visual clues to allow one to surmise the structure’s intended action. Ultimately, the illustrative piece offers a surreal presentation of the Earth’s rotation through a personified force of nature." (from My Modern Met)
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Yesterday I drove to the Northen Emirates and crossed the border to Oman to drive up to the town of Khasab. Beautiful coastline, superb beaches, emerald sea, white sand, rocks, cliffs and even fjords with dolphins swimming around! It was an awesome refreshing trip, far from the skyscrapers of Dubai. At last I found some really nice landscapes in this region, even though it was quite challenging to photograph the fjords from a boat.
And as a big bonus, this beautiful boat wreck was just lying on the side of the road! The sun was setting hence the lighting on the mountains.
In the next days, I'll be posting some shots from Istanbul again, and more shots from Oman.
This is a 7 exposures tone-mapped HDR with Dynamic Photo HDR (it gave me much better results than Photomatix). The sky is from one original exposure (tweaked in ACR because it was a bit hazy). The tone-mapped sky was a bit over cooked for my taste.
A long exposure shot of the Burj Al Arab at the blue hour was still missing on my stream, so here it is! I had to 'sneak' into the private beach of another famous hotel nearby to take this shot ;-)
Digital blending, 5 exposures, light painting with layer masks and paintbrush. All exposures pre-processed with ACR.
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Big Red Dubai-Hatta-Road
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The Dubai Terminal 3 Airport and the Dubai Metro.
D800 & Nikkor 14-24mm 9 exposures Digital Blending (out of 77 I took during 30 minutes) 4 exposures for the whole landscape f/8 ISO 100 2 exposures for the light trails f/22 ISO 100 2 exposures for the trains f/2.8 ISO 2000 1 exposure for the arriving plane f/2.8 ISO 2000
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10 handheld vertical shots stitched with PTGui programme. Laowa 15mm
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Leaving temporarily my modeling shots, back to some Dubai cityscapes :)
Here is another view of Dubai's skyline, this time from a huge residential complex called Jumeirah Islands. It consists of 50 small islands, each comprising 16 villas. They all sit in a huge artificial lake.
Digital Blending + Panorama, original size: 17 Mpix
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There is a little story behind this shot. As usual, a buddy and I were trying to make our way (illegally) to the roof top of a building. Usual strategy, enter the building, go to the elevator, (I use the 'phone call' trick, i.e. walking with my phone, pretending to be on a call with the friend I am visiting upstairs).
Well, we managed to get to 48th floor on the roof top (which also had an accessible helipad). Unfortunately the view was not great, all the downward view obstructed by a huge ledge. But we still decided to setup the tripods and start shooting.
After 10 minutes, we heard some noise, and saw light coming off the staircase, a security guard was coming up! Little adrenaline rush, we tried to run and avoid the guy, but he managed to catch us... Well, I offered him a financial compensation for the trouble, which he accepted.
But then, he started telling us that there was a place on the 21st floor near the machines room with a great view, so we went there, and indeed the view was awesome, never shot before as far as I know. So here it is! It was definitely worth to pay a bribe!
D800 + Nikkor 14-24mm Vertical Panorama, Digital Blending.
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A few weeks ago I posted a same view (Infinity Vertigo), but shot with the Fuji X-E2 and Fujinon 14mm. This one was shot with the D800 & Nikkor 16mm Fisheye.
This was shot from the 73th floor rooftop of the Cayan Tower (formerly known as Infinity Tower) in Dubai Marina.
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Shot from the 73th floor rooftop of the twisted Cayan Tower in Dubai Marina.
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Fisheye view from the 85th floor of Princess Tower in Dubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a canal city, carved along a two mile (3 km) stretch of Arab Gulf shoreline. It has been my home for the past four and a half years now.
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Same world, different eras...When tradition meets modern...On the foreground a Mosque, and on the far end the high tech Burj Al Arab and Jumeirah Beach Hotel.
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Oase Liwa
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Sometimes it's good to scan through my old shots, this is one I completely missed to process a year and a half ago :)
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An unusual harsh light shot on my photo stream! I thought I could get away with it by creating a tone-mapped HDR, use a very long exposure for the water, and convert it to B&W. And as a bonus you get some clouds, another rarity in Dubai!
Technical stuff: 7 exposures tone-mapped HDR with Oloneo Photo Engine, water replaced with a single exposure shot with ND400+ND8 stacked (f/22, 4 minutes), final composite image converted to B&W with Nik SilverEfex Pro.
Sorry for not commenting much lately, likewise don't feel obliged to leave a comment :)
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Panorama of Dubai skyline from the marina in Business Bay
STOLEN PHOTOS - FINAL UPDATE: I just received a mail from Yahoo saying that my request is not processed because they claim I did not put a valid phone number (which is totally nonsense, I did put my number in Dubai - are they expecting a US number???). So the thief removed the photos not because of Yahoo but only because of you, my dear "Internet Mob Friends"! ;-)
LARGE View (Contacts only - sorry). I sincerely apologize to the flickr members who regularly visit my stream but are not in my contacts list. I will gradually add them to my contacts list.
Was in a panoramic mood today, so here it is! This panorama is composed of 6 exposures, each pano exposure is a digital blending of 5 exposures (shot in portrait mode with my Tokina 11-16mm). Total number of exposures processed: 30, each of the RAW shots processed with Adobe Camera Raw for the White Balance and also the Vibrance setting. About 2 hours of total processing. Original size of the panorama: 38 Megapixels.
Ideally, I would have shot the boats and the flag at high ISO and high shutter speed (to freeze the movement), but I felt I was a bit pushing too much! ;-)
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Today, a good friend of mine gave me access to the 79th floor of a newly built tower ("The Torch") in Dubai Marina. An opportunity to add a new shot to the Veins of Dubai collection. :-)
Please check the whole series so far: View From The TopThe Veins Of Dubai #1The Veins Of Dubai #2The Veins Of Dubai #3The Veins Of Dubai #4The Veins Of Dubai #5The Veins Of Dubai #6The Veins Of Dubai #7The Veins Of Dubai #8
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An old spot revisited with my D800 & Nikkor 14-24mm :)
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Hello Dear Friends, yes I am still alive! I don't shoot much these days, hence my rare presence on flickr. But this shot is fresh from the oven taken today near where I live.
It's still always a pleasure to 'pop in' and visit your streams! I still have a few shots in my archives, I'll try to post them soon. Have a great week end!
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5 exposures Digital Blending with Lumia 1020.
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After my few dark hours, and B&W experiment, back to the Blue Hour! The temperatures are now a bit cooler, 33 degrees at the time I took this shot today. Humidity has gone down too (40% today) which is great! And you can also notice some shy clouds, they should become more present as we move towards 'winter'.
Another view of the Dubai Marina Yacht Club. This is a 'small' conventional panorama, made from two landscape shots. Digital Blending, total of 7 exposures used for the whole panorama.
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It's fog season in Dubai! But it only lasts for 3 days or so. This was shot from the 85th floor of the Princess Tower in Dubai Marina.
It is a Vertical Panorama shot with the D800 & Nikkor 14-24mm HDR tonemapped with Oloneo PhotoEngine
My dear friends, sorry for not visiting your streams recently. I have been ramping up my photography activities in Dubai (giving workshops, selling prints, shooting for a book, Facebook), and my 'official' job still keeps me busy. Hence not much time left for commenting your photos.
Festung Attab
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Arabian Peninsula!
Most notably Daniel Cheong, Joao Eduardo Figueiredo, Frank Voigtländer, Jiri Hajek and George Kurzik.