I took a photo of just the tops of the skyscrapers here, but I thought it was quite boring. So I played around with the rotation here, and took another photo like this. I think this rotation made the photo much more interesting. In the least, it made it more unique :)

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

I don’t really like these fake reflections that much. But as I was editing this panorama, I just tried it out, and I quite like the result :) Even if I know it’s fake, I like how it looks (but will also post the normal shot sometimes later anyway :) ).

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 and reflection create in Photoshop.

You can see an even bigger version here.

I hope you are not yet bored by the Dubai photos :) I don’t have anything other new recently, but hopefully soon. Until then, there will be many more skyscrapers on this blog. Ho here is another one from the Dubai Marina :)

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

One of my most favorite views of Dubai. I was quite lucky to get to this spot, even if we only had a hour to take shots. But as I knew exactly what photo I wanted, I focused mostly on taking it. I haven’t used my regular tripod here, but the Manfrotto tabletop one instead. The small wall around the roof area of the building was just too high for me to get over it with my tripod. Actually that was a recurring problem I had during my whole trip. I just need a higher tripod. It’s the first thing on my list of needed upgrades :)

This photo is a vertorama, created from 2 shots, each one from 5 exposures. First the exposures were combined into a vertorama in PTgui and then into HDR in Oloneo Photoengine. It was finished in Photoshop after that.

I really don’t use filters that much. When one shoots hdr, using a filter is not so important usually. But for me, there are two exceptions. Either when I wan to have a longer exposure, when I use a ND filter, or when I shoot during a very sunny day, when I use the polarizer, to darken the sky. Of course one has to take into account where the sun is. For those who are not familiar with this, a polarizing filter works best when the sun is to the side form you. It does not work well when the sun is in front or behind you. Same for this photo, where the sun was to the left of me, at the almost perfect position. And the polarizer gave me a great result :)

This is a HDR from 5 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine and finished in Photoshop.