Sphinx Pool

Jason Benz — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:15:02 +0000

This was our hotel pool in Dahab, Egypt. I used a tripod, a 30-second exposure and a small aperture to get the lights to sparkle. To process this image used a colour balance layer to make the pool a nicer shade of blue. I used a tone curve to boost the mid tones. Finally, I moved the black point in on a levels layer to make the sky jet black.

Pyramid Sphinx

Jason Benz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +0000

These are the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This started life as a very flat image with a low dynamic range. To bring it to life I developed it in the cameras own raw developer with a tone curve and in Photomatix to produce an HDR image. I blended the two in Photoshop taking the best bits from each image. Interestingly the HDR image had extra pixels round every edge so it had a higher pixel count than the cameras own software.

This image has been accepted by Dreamstime for Stock Photography and is available for download here.

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Sphinx Pool

Pyramid Sphinx