i never tried star trails before until i joined a recent photography competition. we were given certain cameras and the first challenge was taking photographs on a low-light desert landscape. while waiting for my “competition” gear to expose the scene on the north, i tried my personal cam facing south.
there are ways of taking star trails and you can find them all over the internet. the most common are single exposure shot and set of short exposures for stacking. i used the latter since light pollution caused by big cities was strong. south was the only direction with less glow and took a lot of 30-sec exposures and later combined it using a specialised software such as startax.
Categories: composition 101 - lines and curves,photography,tips and tricks
Tagged: bawadi, desert, dubai, landscape, long exposure, sand dunes, star trails
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- 30th October 2011 Sunday at 10:19 pm
before summer came in 2008, abba asked us to update her model portfolio. it was the first time we collaborated for an outdoor shoot and one of the locations we picked was the desert. the scenery was desolate and cold (although the month was already april). she projected herself to be alone as if she missed someone from faraway land.
Categories: assignments,composition 101 - depth of field,compostion 101 - rule of thirds,photography,uncategorized
Tagged: black and white, desert, dubai, fashion, glamour, margham, portrait, sand dunes
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- 27th January 2011 Thursday at 12:18 am
another year has passed and just like any other photographer, we highlight the year in pictures. as we look back, these are bits and pieces that occured for the past twelve months. it has been a quiet year for me in photography but to say at least, still was a blast.
happy new year everyone!
Categories: assignments,composition 101 - color,composition 101 - depth of field,composition 101 - framing,composition 101 - leading lines,composition 101 - lines and curves,composition 101 - motion,composition 101 - pattern,composition 101 - scale,composition 101 - symmetry,compostion 101 - rule of thirds,life in dubai,personal,photography,travel,uncategorized
Tagged: architecture, atlantis, burj khalifa, documentary, dubai, dubai marina, landscape, meydan, nightscape, palm jumeirah, portrait, safari, sand dunes, seascape, sheikh zayed mosque, street, transportation
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- 31st December 2010 Friday at 9:10 pm
it was quite unusual to see a heavy equipment parked in the middle of the desert. this crawler was probably waiting for a parcel of land to be moved and built for a new man-made structure. dubai at that time was expanding. construction sites are everywhere and this lonely dunes of bawadi was not an exception.
Categories: composition 101 - color,composition 101 - depth of field,composition 101 - scale,personal,photography
Tagged: bawadi, desert, dubai, sand dunes, transportation
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- 3rd December 2010 Friday at 8:17 pm
during my local leave, i was wondering on how to maximise my digitized image space in my hard drives. i deleted unwanted clutter and archiving not-so-important files just to free those precious bytes. while browsing my november 2007 folders, i stumbled upon this long forgotten gem.
Categories: composition 101 - color,travel,uncategorized
Tagged: bab al shams, desert, dubai, landscape, sand dunes
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- 30th November 2010 Tuesday at 10:35 pm
