The Burj Khalifa looks great in photos, but it creates the same problem with composition as all the other isolated high buildings. You either leave it out of a photo, or you include it and create a lot of empty space with just the sky. But as one of course wants to have this great building in the photos, one does the best one can :)

This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.

Shining tower

This is one of those places, where you have a stunning view on one side, and a very stunning view on the other :). So one really tends to go with the very stunning one (in this case this one). But of course I also got few ones from this side, even if not so many as from the other one :)

This is a HDR from 5 exposures, blended with original files in PHotoshop.
On the Sheikh Zayed Road

Ok, to tell the truth, I also got over the railing to get few shots without it :) Better said, I walked around it, as I didn’t want to climb with my camera gear. One always has to be careful. But I also liked this view, with the railing in front, gives a nice foreground object and it also creates a nice leading line that curves in the photo. One tends to think about the composition all the time :)

This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
Staying behind the railing

Some time ago I posted this panorama with a fake reflection I only created in Photoshop (you can see it here). But this time here is the real look of it. So this is the normal panorama I took. I would so love to get a really great reflection here, but I think the see is never so calm here, to be able to get it. Maybe if I carried a mirror with me all the time, to put under the camera :)

This is a 4 shots panorama, each shot from 4 exposures. Panorama created in PTgui, with the exposures combined in Oloneo Photoengine. The image finished in Photoshop.
With the real reflection

The Burj Khalifa is not really for those who are afraid of heights. I don’t really see the point, as over a certain height, it does not really matter that much. If you would ever fall from a 5th floor or from a 100th floor, the results are the same. But everyone looks at this differently. It’s still funny how different thing look from such high up. Like the Address hotel which you can see in the middle of this photo. From bottom up it looks so huge, from high up, so small :)

This is a HDR from 4 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.
Very high up

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