Vineets Photoblog

The Deira Clock Tower or sometimes called the Dubai Clock Tower was built during 1962. It is a roundabout located in eastern Dubai in Deira, at the intersection of Umm Hurair Road and route D 89 or Al Maktoum Road. This clock tower is one of Dubai’s oldest monuments that was built by Overseas AST. The clock tower idea was from Ing Otto Bulard. He drew a sketch of his clock tower idea and gave it to his Engineer to make some calculations and produce a design. The clock tower was not derived from an oil drill bit nor does it represent it in any way. It was then purposely constructed on a traffic roundabout to protect the clock tower.

How it was shot:

> Handheld
> Nine exposures auto-bracketed and merged to get and HDR
> Camera: Nikon D700
> Lens: Nikon 24-70mm f2.8G

How it was tone-mapped:
> Preparation: developed the RAW files with ACR
> Resulting TIF images were then used as input to Photomatix
> Tone-mapping: Photomatix Pro 4.0 (Detail Enhancer)

How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image
> Imagenomic Noiseware on the entire image
> Sharpening
> Watermarking