Burj Khalifa-Dubai

[anderson_paul]

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

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[Michiel953]

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

I like the shot Paul, a lot (even though, having been there some ten years ago, I don't like Dubai much).

Pixel peeping (sorry) shows some camera movement blur which, in an image like this, is not a big problem imho. No ibis or vr? Still, using a wider aperture (f5.6 f.i.) would have given you a faster shutterspeed at the same ISO level, while (at 21mm) not reallyimpacting your depth of field too much.

Then, noise/grain: not bad at all although, only 1600 ISO? I'll try to post a 6400 ISO image (at 1/6 sec haha) later to show you whatthat looks like.

I like it!

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[Michiel953]

Here you go. 6400 ISO, 1/6 sec, 24mm. Looks sharper if I may say so, but the grain is almost pointillist.



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[Sagittarius]

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

I would shoot at 16 mm or close to leave room for perspective correction and compositional cropping.

 

[anderson_paul]

Yeah man some mistakes such as forgetting my tripod head (such a dumb rookie move) and with software like topaz I should have took it at a higher iso like you mentioned thanks for the feedback

 

[Michiel953]

Yeah man some mistakes such as forgetting my tripod head (such a dumb rookie move) and with software like topaz I should have took it at a higher iso like you mentioned thanks for the feedback

I have no issue with the grain in the darker areas, but using a wider aperture would have enabled a faster shutterspeed. Although, I was surprised by my own shot at 1/6 with the 24mm, so handheld is not impossible given adequate technique, certainly not with 21mm. I was "slightly" boozy after a fun New Year's eve dinner and party, maybe that helped. I did bring a monopod for night shots, but never took it out of my trunk... it's still there!

And I like the persepctive; gives you an idea of how tall that building is. I see no need to correct it. Not fond of that anyway.

 

[Reilly Diefenbach]

Correction for leaning verticals is easy.

A quick run through Topaz Denoise or DXO will clean up the noise.

 

[mfinley]

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

Some tips I try to follow -

Next time shoot wide open if shooting hand held, that would have changed your shutter speed to 1/128 or so. There is plenty of depth of field at 2.8 on a 21mm lens so no need to stop down that much when exposure is compromised.

You could use more exposure for the tall building and might have gained some texture and color in the sky (maybe, depends on what the sky looked like).

Night shots are good candidates to combine multiple frames in post-production (HDR) of different exposures because of the massive dynamic range of the scene from the darkness to the bright lights.

The lean back is a matter of preference, some people like it and want it in the image to give that sense of height looking up at such a tall building, some people want to correct for perspective making all the verticle lines true instead of converging. In regards to the perspective, the scene is leaning to the left, but isn't bad as the converging perspective hides it a bit.

Lastly, I would have checked what a little bit wider focal length would have done since you had it with that lens, it might have given you some breathing room in the image and widened the foreground subject matter which kind of seems closely cropped.

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[Nusratty]

I like the composition, I might have made the Burj more central in the shot, it feels a little unbalanced with building on the right pulling my eyes away from the main subject. I personally prefer my night shots in the city to be taken in blue hour, I think the artificial and natural light balances a bit better, you get some detail in the sky and probably a bit more detail in the buildings too.

 

[KENTGA]

I like the photo but too bad you can't do something in post processing to "isolate" the building from the background/sky.

Kent

 

[Maxmolly7]

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

I would shoot at 16 mm or close to leave room for perspective correction and compositional cropping.

I second this statement.

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[Gandolphi]

Didn’t see that when I was there in the 60s.

Wanted to get some feed back and tips please. I'm new at cityscapes and was trying last night to photograph the Burj Khalifa. I was using a Canon R5 with the canon 16-35 F/2.8. any and all feed back both positive and negative will be appropriated. Thanks

 

[BashkoN]

I think you should consider taking the photo from the other spot. I totally agree with the comment above that the building from the right brings too much attention and I cannot completely understand what is the main object because of that. You should try taking the pick a little closer to the building and get it in the center of your shoot. I am going soon to Dubai as well, for vacation (to have some fun on the wake surf I usually rent on https://yeprent.com) and to photograph an expo. Maybe we will meet there (if you're still in Dubai) and discuss photography, and try to take shots of some buildings.