Abandoned

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On a trip to one of the Northern emirates, Ras ul Khaimah, I came across an abandoned aircraft, some relict of bygone days. Even though it was a typically bright and sunny day, at about 3 pm in the afternoon, there was still some blue in the sky, maybe not as much as I would have liked but at least it was that bright washed out white hazy sky that we often have to contend with in the UAE. I decided that given the light and the dynamic range, HDR was probably the best way to go. I took 3 shots1 EV apart for each image and then processed them using HDR efex pro. I did also do a few post processing work with photoshop as well as promatix but in the end preferred the results that came out of HDR efex pro.

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Trying out Snapseed

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20130109-224201.jpg Found a nifty digital processing software called Snapseed. Really quite wonderful. I have loaded it on my iPhone, iPad and MAC. Had an image of these two girls walking away from me at a bday party. Used Snapseed to increase contrast and grunge up the background. Took all of five minutes. I could have added frames, converted to black and white, added tilt shift affects and a whole load of other post processing options.

I quite like it.