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New York streets
I really enjoyed walking in NYC. I did various shots of typical sites in NYC but I also wanted to create some new perspectives. This one is at the corner of the street turning to Ground Zero. It is a long exposure (about 35 seconds) with a ND 8 stops filter….
Karasu, The Lake Acarlar
This is my hometown in Turkey. I had this shot sometime ago and now I processed it. For this one I used my recent techniques to get the sky blues is and plus a touch of purple. First, when I tone mapped the image in photomatix, I made the temperature blueish -5, -6. It could be left ...
Istanbul, the new inhabitants
Here is again a retouch of my an old work. When I compare it to the first version that I made about 4-5 years ago, there is a huge difference. It seems that I changed/improved my post-processing very significantly. There is no shame with post-processing. When people ask, did you do photoshopping, I laugh at them. ...
Karasu, sunset
This is my hometown in Turkey, it is called Karasu, a little town. It has a beautiful coastline at the Black Sea. I spent my childhood in Karasu where we could go to beach 3 months during the the summer. I made this photo back in 2007. This place has a lot of fisherman boats ...
boat
HDR photography is quite experimental. To get stunning results, it would be good to use, at least to know, all possible tools for creating the final images. Again, there is not much to change while you merge to 32-HDR image but the real artistic tuning comes when you are tone-mapping. For this image, I used Nik ...