Building bridges
As a photographer, one of the best things about having a photoblog is that it provides a way for you to experiment with different photography and post-processing techniques. It also acts almost like a journal of your photographic knowledge allowing you to look back through your images and show you how you’re photography has evolved. Talking about evolving your photography, if you are interested in night (and blue hour) photography I will be running a photography workshop at Gulf Photo Plus on October 6.
Today’s shot is exactly one of those images with which I was really not sure what to do. It’s interesting enough to not just throw it away, but on the other hand because that morning was not one of the clearest in Dubai, it’s also slightly murky. So I’ve decided to play a bit with the post-processing, going for a slight tilt-shift to try and emphasize the foreground while throwing the background out-of-focus. As always, if you want to see the original (straight out of the camera) shot just roll-over the image.
In terms of the actual place, this was taken from the top of one the buildings on the Dubai Creek and it shows all the bridges running across the creek – from foreground to background – Maktoum Bridge (only slightly visible at the bottom right), Floating Bridge, Garhoud Bridge and in the far distance, Business Bay Bridge. The amazing thing is that when I moved to the Middle East eleven years ago, the only bridge that was there in its current form was the Maktoum Bridge. All the other ones are either new or have been re-built.