Once again, these are shots from the Bosporus Strait (from a ferry) of landmarks and beautiful buildings.
Hagia Sophia
Sultanahmet Mosque
One of the many beautiful mosques in Istanbul
More below the fold…
The Galata Tower held up by an interesting foundation of buildings
The Galata Tower again. The Galata Tower was built by the Genoese.
The Hagia Sophia in the background.
A former customs house?
The old and traditional with the new and modern
Traditional building in the foreground with a skyscraper backdrop
Suspension bridge
Mosque, boat
Birds
Buoy, customs house, bridge
Sultanahmet and Hagia Sophia
Sultanahmet
Hagia Sophia
(this and the next pictures are an HDR combined with a regular exposure)
Sultanahmet and Hagia Sophia
Sultanahmet and Hagia Sophia
4 Responses
August 5th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Thanks!
20 pictures in a post isn’t enough for ya?
September 16th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Beautiful ! A very nice vew of the city. Thamks
November 18th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Outrageous man! I’ve seen these places, but not quite like this! You do a lot of manipulation in some of these shots- highlighting and haloeing- can you describe briefly what you’re doing? thanks….
November 18th, 2009 at 1:57 am
There are three “modes” in these pictures:
1. Regular
2. HDR (if you don’t know what HDR is, check out Trey’s great tutorial)
3. Black and white
I rendered each of these pictures in all three ways and then I layered the three in Photoshop and selectively blended them together.
For instance, the last picture, the bottom half of the picture is HDR and the top half (sky) is regular. HDR in that situation murders the sky into nasty slate gray. Combining the two gives it a slightly disconcerting look, but that’s the best my poor little well of creativity could do on that day.
Sometimes you can check out the filenames to get some info on what I did. If the filename contains “Enhancer” it means it’s HDR. If it contains “Enhancer” and an ampersand (”&”) it means I’ve combined HDR with either regular or B&W. Looking through most of the pics above, most of them are just straight HDR.
“A former customs house?” and “One of the many beautiful mosques in Istanbul” is HDR on the bottom and B&W on the top. The first two pictures are just sepia.
The reason these pics are so whacked is because a combination of the haze and glare just made the colors entirely unsatisfactory to me, so I really played with it. I can’t say I’m proud looking back on all of these pics, but I do prefer funky/disconcerting to simply low-quality.
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