[obsoquasi]

The desert of Sinai is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I was there a couple of years ago on a 7 day camel trek and I shot about 4500 photos during that time, taking the camera batteries with me in my sleeping bag every night, so they would stay warm. There are however photographical challenges. The colors are sometimes very subtle and putting the images online without any post-processing doesn't do the desert justice. Two things helped me get my photos closer to the real thing, an L.a.b. conversion (using a curve adjustment to steepen the a and b channels) and exposure blending with AEB'ed shots, because the sky was always way to bright - eventhough I was using a polarization filter most of the time. How did you handle the contrasts?


An example from back then: [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsoquasi/4427596566/sizes/o/in/photostream/.%C2][/url]