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Friday, October 16, 2009

Manila Bay The Third part

I realise after having seen my two previous HDR Images, it probably tends to leave one expecting a similar level of calibre from any following images, not exactly the wisest of my decisions in my attempt to impress with my photography lol. However despite that I did manage to pull out a couple more Images that I was particularly happy with that didnt require the processing and time spent in putting together an HDR Image.


This first one is my particular fave from the following batch.

Manila Bay-5

It was taken from the very same boat as my original HDR as the sun was begining to set producing a beautiful oportunity for some sillhouwhettes. However unfortunately it was rather cloudy and the beautifull sunset I had been expecting promtly dissapeared behind a clump of clouds choosing to reside just over the horizon, ruining that moment of perfect light where the sun just about direclty shines through the boat giving me the perfect Image. But as is life and ESPECIALLY photography, you dont really quite get what you want.

As for the following images most were taken earlier in the day, I'm particularly happy with the one with the sea as a backdrop. I was quite pleased to see the way the sea reacted in the background as an out of focus subject creating some nice circular reflections. I'm not sure if it was because of the distance between my subject, the lens and the sea behind the subject, or weather the position of the sun had anything to do with the way it was beautifully reflecting back into my camera but further experimentation will certainly be on my list of things to investigate.

Now before I continue yammering on and put you all to sleep here are the remaining pictures:

Enjoy!

also I'm to lazy to continue to translate this into spanish xD I'm sure google translate will do an amazing job though :D

Manila Bay-4
Manila Bay-3Manila Bay-2
Manila Bay-1

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Manila Bay View


Manila Bay View
Originally uploaded by sbalani

Well Folks! Time for this week's Blog post (a little early I know but I had some time, and I was Itching to do something with a photo). This week I present to you another HDR of Manila Bay. Whilst it was an excitign day of shooting, I took advantage to shoot a lot of potential HDR's as you can see the sky was quite dynamic that day, and getting a standard Pic (based on my viewings from my viewfinder just didnt do it Justice, so I went nuts HDR-ing what I could. However there are a bunch more HDR-less images comming on soon which I Hope you will enjoy.

On another note its Photoshop World Vegas this weekend, and although I was unable to make this years installments (Either of them) I hear speak of CS5 was mentioned so check back for my compilation on what I can extract of what happened at the Expo.