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When you are taking photos outdoors that contains external lightings, it is better to shoot at aperture around f/11 and above so that you have the kind of star feel to them otherwise you would end up with a hole of light which looks bad . This 9-shot HDR image taken at the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhbai is a good example where photographing around f/8 noon is actually is not a good thing. In this case, the external light around the minarats in the background was showing blow out highlights and the spread of light was so bad.
Note however, that I had to cheat a bit more than usual to compensate the very bright lights on two of the minarats. To cure this, I took the freedom to duplicate one of the foreground minarts on the left and copied it over for the background. (pssst – don’t tell anybody! 
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What’s your take on this? Do you think that this type of ‘manipulation’ is Ok in such instances?
How the photos were shot
- Tripod
- Nine exposures
- Camera: Nikon D800
- Lens: Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8
How the HDR image was tonemapped
- Processed the images as Raw File in Photomatix
- Changed the following sliders to get the tone mapped image-Strength, Color Saturation, Luminosity and Detailed Contrast.
- Saved the resulting image as TIFF images
How the tone-mapped image was post-processed
- The Resulting tone-mapped Tiff Image was then opened in Camera Raw
- Changed the following settings-Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Blacks, Whites
- Resulting File then opened in Photoshop
- Topaz Adjust on Mosques Minarats
- OnOne Perfect Effects on floors and Nik Color Efex for the overall feel and tone
- Applied noise reduction (Topaz Denoise)
- Sharpening
- Watermarking
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Vineet Suthan
Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.
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