André Distel Photography
*Gold Rush - Dubai* - Limited Edition Platinum 25 Series
© André Distel - Website - Google+ - Facebook
Please hop over to my new facebook page and check it out. Really appreciate every like :). Thank you!
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*Gold Rush - Dubai* - Limited Edition Platinum 25 Series
Finally a new image release. This baby has been a serious piece of work - both for capturing and for the final processing.
To give a sense of scale. I had to use 10 individual images, all shot at 16mm on full-frame (10.5mm on crop sensor DSLR) on my D800 to stitch an image, that shows the entire scene with minimum distortion. Image size from the D800 is 36 Megapixel, but image has only about 50 Megapixel. Tiny fractions of each image had to used to carefully stitch this photo. It is simply impossible to capture entire buildings in Dubai without distortion with one single shot. And I not only wanted to show the skyscrapers but the also opposite, which can be found just on the other side of the main road of Sheik Zayed. The image was taken just around sunrise at 6:30am, which posed another huge challenge for long-exposure panoramic photography, due to the quickly changing light.
In the background you can see the currently tallest building on Earth - Burj Khalifa. On the very right side far out and in the ocean stands the Burj Al Arab, which you won't be able to see on this image.
Hope you like the photo and the short explanation
Cheers,
André
*Gold Rush - Dubai* - Limited Edition Platinum 25 Series
© André Distel - Website - Google+ - Facebook
Please hop over to my new facebook page and check it out. Really appreciate every like :). Thank you!
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*Gold Rush - Dubai* - Limited Edition Platinum 25 Series
Finally a new image release. This baby has been a serious piece of work - both for capturing and for the final processing.
To give a sense of scale. I had to use 10 individual images, all shot at 16mm on full-frame (10.5mm on crop sensor DSLR) on my D800 to stitch an image, that shows the entire scene with minimum distortion. Image size from the D800 is 36 Megapixel, but image has only about 50 Megapixel. Tiny fractions of each image had to used to carefully stitch this photo. It is simply impossible to capture entire buildings in Dubai without distortion with one single shot. And I not only wanted to show the skyscrapers but the also opposite, which can be found just on the other side of the main road of Sheik Zayed. The image was taken just around sunrise at 6:30am, which posed another huge challenge for long-exposure panoramic photography, due to the quickly changing light.
In the background you can see the currently tallest building on Earth - Burj Khalifa. On the very right side far out and in the ocean stands the Burj Al Arab, which you won't be able to see on this image.
Hope you like the photo and the short explanation
Cheers,
André