Boat Parking

In order to get this Blog moving I will start with posting a photo I took yesterday at Dubai Marina. It was a wonderfully clear night and also the temperatures here in Dubai are slowly coming down to an acceptable level. It was some amicable 29°C last night. Yay...

The image below was taken with my Nikon D700 and a Nikon 14-24mm f2,8 wideangle lens. What a marvellous piece of glass that is... expensive, but simply perfect quality.

In order to avoid any geometric distortion I pointed the camera straight at the horizon (so that the horizon is in the middle of the picture). I then slightly cropped the upper and the lower parts of the image which gives it this Panorama look.

14mm, f13, 30s, ISO 200

Post-processing included the following steps:

Lightroom

• Temperature: 2900K
• Tint: +10
• Exposure: 0,00
• Recovery: 40
• Fill Light: 15
• Blacks: 6
• Brightness: 50
• Contrast: 25
• Clarity: 25
• Vibrance: 0
• Saturation: 0
• Export to Photoshop

Photoshop

• Apply Spot Healing Brush
• Crop Image
• Apply Smart-Sharpen Filter (Amount 60%, Radius 1,3px)
• Save as TIF

CaptureNX2

• Apply U-point to central part of the image, slightly darken this very light area: Brightness -10
• Convert to sRGB with perception based rendering intent
• Save as JPG

Photoshop

• Insert watermark
• Save as JPG

May be this gives you some new ideas for your own post-processing. If you have any questions always feel free to ask!