Landscape Pictures
We had a chance to do some “milky waves” photography at the coast of Tanah Lot. Many photographers achieve this effect with use of 10-stop ND filters. For us, we just used the waning light of dusk to achieve the long exposure times we wanted. I have converted the monochromatic blue glow of the original to the sepia-toned, high contrast version above.
I was just lamenting that I haven’t really got myself out in Singapore to take pictures so far in 2011. Finally finding a free weekend, we (my dad, EK and myself) made our way to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort for some urban photography. The weather certainly didn’t disappoint, with good sunshine throughout our session there. The above was taken at the same spot as this post except that I had the advantage of an ultra-wide-angle lens this time around. I had originally wanted to make a composite HDR-image based on three bracketed shots for this scene. Ultimately, Lightroom was able to give me the balanced results I wanted from just one RAW file (through gradient-filter processing) 🙂
Thank you for the voting for Dawn At Kintamani which has been listed as “Noteworthy” in last week’s Photo Friday‘s Challenge on “Breathtaking“. As mentioned in that earlier post, I am not a typical fan of HDR photography, preferring instead to merge bracketed shots layer-by-layer manually by hand in Photoshop. This is another post that I have manually merged (from three bracketed shots) in Photoshop, taken on the same day last year. I hope you like the effect I have managed to achieve 🙂