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LOL! Great story and great composition, Joe! Hope you get over that jet-lag soon. Don’t know how you do it. . . Cindy
WOW!
Damn Joe! u’ve inspired me with this shot!
hafiz
Wow, how many Speedlights and Lastlite Skylites did you use to get the light in the Great Mosque?
Very cool!!! That is a really beautiful piece of architecture. I love even better that you did the moon/mosque shot as one (combined) exposure in camera rather than in post. Hope you have a good trip… and don’t forget your pants!
What a spectacular view!
Shd put on pants. Moon might have a different meaning otherwise.
Very nice Joe! I’ve been using Lightroom for the past several years, but Aperture 3 has certainly gotten my attention.
All the best,
Stephen
Sweet shot, but don’t like the construction on the left. Photoshop it out.
Great shot! I love the instructive work flow, All though I could have gone without the mental image, now stuck in my head, of a pants-less Joe shooting on the patio. 🙂
It’s good to know that even the best in the world don’t always get it right the first time. Stunning photo and thanks for sharing the process. I’m a huge fan!
Amazing, i gotta say Joe, i was right there taking that shot, thanks for sharing
Tampa FL.
Cesar
Brilliant Joe!-A great way to wake up!
As detailed as always! The view is amazing! And no, I don’t mean McNally without pants..zzzz…the Mosque obviously!
Looking @ pic reading text jaw dropping slightly looking @ pic Reading text trying to keep up with joe jaw somewhere on the floor think I might be a couple of lightyears behind you.
Another nice shot joe
Absolutely stunning!!
What can I say … the picture says it all. Have a good one Joe. It’s an amazing place and when the sun sets (eventually) that soft golden light and gentle shadows will just shout out “shoot me, shoot me”!
Oh Joe, we love you for the “Try to remember…” bit. 🙂
Yeah, the pants thing happens from time to time.
Good to see that some people still remember stuff like multiple exposures in camera… wonder how many would have gone to Photoshop instead (and spent much more time there than dialing the camera to its proper settings)…
Also good to see the same people may be encountered wearing pants to breakfast.
Great capture Joe, I hope you did get your pants on before breaky! Love the image you can get with the early morning sun and a bit of dust in the air. Makes for a very powerful image. Those mosques are very impressive. Having worked over seas the last 15 years I have seen many but photographed few. You are a lucky man to get this capture.
Well done
Neil
Master in action in other words!
all makes sense to me except the DX mode thing. Isn’t that nothing more than in-camera cropping? (awesome shot, btw!)
I love your workflow tutorial here, and this is an amazing picture. Thank you for your honest and humble musings on your journey. They make the amazing seem more accessible for the rest of us.
Joe, very nice work as always. I was in abu dhabi 15 years ago. Looks like time to visit once again
fan of Joe club
sandeep
awesome photo. Looks like I need to learn how to do multiple exposures. There are so many cool things to do with a camera
Looking forward to reading the ‘putting on pants’ workflow…… Great picture, being a photographer is a curse sometime, like an itch you just can’t scratch. You see pictures and just have to drop everything (sometimes the even means the pants!) and grab your camera to capture that moment. Thanks for sharing it Joe.
John
Nice shot. Thanks for mentioning the work flow.
I actually like the moon covered by the clouds. I feel, if the moon was clear it could remove the attention from the mosque.
Oh my. I love this. The beauty, followed by the frantic “i’m not ready! but it is!” the bumbling, even when you are Joe Mc-teachin us all how to do it-Nally! Thank you.
Joe,
A word of advice!
Don’t ever attempt to write code or hire someone to do so.
Your algorithms are impossible.
He! He!
Bill
Bill
Love the image, but really liked the workflow part — especially that even McNally occasionally struggles with a camera settings. Enjoy the blog!
Very cool image and love the workflow. But, are you allowed to thank St. Jude (the patron saint of hopeless cases, of course) when you’re photographing a mosque? Shouldn’t it be Allah or someone else?
Raw brain dump – excellent! No wonder you blogged about it, I’ve never got that multiple thingy button to work so well. 🙂
Mongo do good.
Whoa, dude!
They say crazy and genius are indistinguishable…
Hi Joe, good instruction and nice photo! Can I do this with my D300?
Perhaps you could explain some more about dialing EV up or down. It still is not very clear to me when to use this option. I shoot alot in A or in manual modus. Most of the time I keep the D300 at EV0 and change the flash or shutterspeed.
Kind regards, Doede
Beautiful shot(s). Enjoyed the play-by-play. haha.
Wouldn’t mind waking up to that scene on a daily basis.
hahaha! this entry cracks me up! nice one!! love the final image you produced. very cool!
Dam!
BTW, the AP say’s you’re fired. ;-}
Awesome – as always. You’re the inspiration! – thanks for sharing.
nice frame….how many SB-900’s to light the inside of the building?
Very cool Joe. Even jet lagged and without your pants you’re able to pull of some amazing images. 🙂
Heck it’s hard working being a photographer Joe! I wonder you remembered your brain after all that struggling, never mind your pants.
Nice result though. Worth the effort.
Bravo Joe!
I was lucky enough to experience Abu Dhabi myself a few years ago. Hilarious post, did you remember your pants?
Joe you are in the wrong profession!
This post is hilarious! Do the producers in Hollywood use the internet at all cause they sure need to be contacting you about doing a movie.
Oh, and awesome picture by the way!
Regards
Heinz
WOW!!!!!!!!!
Sweet shot, Did the same kind of scramble about a year ago while staying at friends’ home in Florida and being awakened by a full moon shining through the shades. No multiple exposure though. http://www.pbase.com/spepple/image/109061753
Lol, your workflow looks alot like mine, except your results are a lot better 🙂
You just gave me new appreciation for multiple-exposure…one more thing to add to the practice list.
Awesome Joe!! You definitely threw some ideas into my brain. Now that will keep troubling me till i experiment.
Thanks and u hav a great time!
Joe,
Thanks for injecting some humor into my day. BTW, Good job on the pictures I am assuming pants are not optional in Abu Dhabi.
Joe, its rare one gets to see photographs like this. The mosque might be beautiful but what you have done here makes it look magestic. Not to mention now I have a reason for a 400mm lens.
Wow, fantastic view from your window. wish i was there too.
Pants are good Joe, very good.
Beautiful shot.
Absolutely stunning image! Isn’t it wonderful to work with only adrenaline driving you? 🙂
Fantastic image followed by an absolutely hilarious post! You sir, are the man.
Hahahahaha. Great shot, though.
Joe – you never fail to put a smile on my face with your antics. Awesome shot.
Joe, you are too hard on yourself. The clouds really help make the moon not standout too much and dominate the shot.
Great! Thanks for the class!
Good entry, great photo. Wow, I heard about the multiple exposure feature before and then never thought about it again. Now I can see how useful it could be. Very, very cool. And what a view!! Thanks for sharing Joe, you’re awesome.
my 2 cents with aperture
“touching contraste slider you should not”
experiment:
look at the histogram, push the contrast slider to the right and you will see clipping
look at the histogram, draw an “S” shape with curves and TADA no clipping.
wonderful photo by the way
thunder thumbed is the greatest thing i have ever heard. I’m stealing that for the next time i screw up.
This is awesome. Is this the ‘image overlay’ mode in the D3X? Would love to see more details on how you did this.
Hey Joe,
How many SB-900s did you use to light up the moon? Were they CTO gel’d? 😀
Rodrigo Valle
Sounds like me…although I would put my pants on first…:-D
Well? Did you remember? The pants, I mean. (The AbuDhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, if I remember right, prefer it when their guests wear pants.)
The picture alone was beautiful enough to make our day, but the monologue was priceless. Thanks!
hahaha! great. … and a really nice pic joe. thumbs up!
So do I have it right then that this isn’t a single image, and it’s not even HDR, but rather a composite image from totally different shots, but made IN the camera? Cool! Amazing image regardless of how it’s made. Must get to that part of the world some day.
Joe,
Gosh, the guys at Kelby’s business said this was the guest house for all the photo teaching staff, and you wanted the biggest room…
Ken in KY
Wonderful view and amazing shot. I think I have had that very same workflow in a couple of my shots, particularly of a passing environment like the moon. Except I usually have the pants 8)
Nice post though!
Awesome shot Joe, funny post too
Great blog Joe
will be back for more
Joe, what a breathtaking shot. It’s beautiful. All that sweat was well worth it. Hope your trip was good.
That is a jaw dropping shot. And, the explanation of how you did it priceless. Thanks Joe!
Well done Joe, spectacular, but why would I think otherwise?
Awesome! You’re too professional to do a composite image – you are truly a master!
Great shot.
Fantastic shot Joe ‘especially’ as this is a Multi Exposure to place the moon in the shot.
I gotta be honest changing midway through a multi exposure to DX format isn’t something I’d even considered so clearly alot more ‘play time’ is called for.
As always, entertaining and inspiring.
Cheers,
Glyn
Great image & great story – wouldn’t have expected anything less. I’ve tried on numerous occasions to produce an image in camera along these lines, always with woeful results. You’ve inspired me once again Joe – next time I have the full moon in my sights I’ll be trying the no pants approach, and see what the extra moon can contribute to the deal.
Great picture! That’s a feature that I loved about my old film canon camera, and miss on the EOS 5D: Multiple Exposures…
Beautiful pic, Joe, but I can’t help but wonder whether the composite photo technique you used to enlarge the moon is, well, cheating.
Beautiful, beautiful picture. It alone made my day, but your thought process is priceless and has given me, once more, a lot to think about. I’ll be sure to try out your tips, especially the no pants part. I took pictures stark naked once and wasn’t really satisfied, but I think I know why : as for many things in life, sometimes you just have to compromise.
Wow! Nice shot Joe. And I thought I was fussy about getting a photo with my camera settings. If the moon were any brighter, it would have taken it away from the Mosque. Aperture never fails to amaze me also! Great shot. Great light! and great writing!
Very cool! Really impressed with the pantless workflow. Got the shot. Nice job, Joe.
Joe, this is so beautiful. I wish I could hear outside your window, as you have let us see outside your window.
The call to prayer, woke me for two weeks in Jordan a few years ago…and I will never forget how wonderful, exciting and totally not-at-home I was.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic image, and for making me smile even before I had coffee 😉
Joe, I think I love you. I love your photography; I love your writing. You not only cause me to see the world differently, but you challenge me to live in the world differently.
I love this line: “It is an immediate reminder that I am not home.” Your humanity is what makes you a great photographer and writer, period.
Cheers,
Caleb
This photo looks gorgeous – at least for the first seconds. But actually, I do not like it any more. The moon is too large and exaggerated to be true – so I guessed you used Photoshop. (Which would give you a lot more flexibility)
It is impressive, how you managed to do this with a multiple exposure like in these old days when shooting film. (I remember the photo of the baby and the ball you also used this technique) Nevertheless I would have liked the same photo with a smaller and more realistic moon more.
WOW! Awesome shot!
Sheesh… Youse guys that gotta do everthing in camera. You tryin’a make me an my little Photoshop friend here look bad? I would’n tryda make my little Photoshop friend here look bad Joe. He’s got a multi-layad persunality if ya know what I’m sayin’.
Tried a similar shot (double exposure) recently but it was hard to position the moon exactly in the picture even using the grid lines in the viewfinder. It was also at night so it was difficult to see the camera controls. I guess it still takes experience to do come up with a great shot like yours!
Come home from work, get a Diet Coke, start checking the 17 blogs I keep up with, get to Joe’s, read his steps, droole feverously, write comment.
Hi Joe !!! Thnks for sharing these things and this pictures, it is fantastic!!!
I have a question: what’s that about “Program camera to DX format to get bigger moon”???
Jaw-dropping is right… amazing shot. Love the almost impossibly-subtle tones in the mosque, and the moon is just gravy. Very nice, and of course the write-up isn’t too shabby either.
LMAO … but unfortunately us numnuts would still “stand there slack jawed, toothbrush hanging from lower lip” and not even get close to that image .. man, that is sensational !
@Javier: DX format in the D3x (or other Full frame Nikons) will crop the sensor to the smaller format DX image – effectively a 1.5 crop. It is not magnification nor does it add visual compression to the 200-400 lens, the lens is still the same, just now cropped to an effective 600mm frame at the long end. So if you are doing everything in camera you have this tool and multiple exposure (mix DX and FX frames?)at your disposal to avoid cropping and compositing in post. Nice work, Joe!
@Carl – I tend to agree, but then, I’m disappointed. I think the whole entire thing is cheating.
Great looking photo-illustration. Would you be willing to share the “real” image? It sounds like such a neat scene, I’d love to see it how it actually looked, versus how you double-exposed it. Thanks for considering, much respect,
Troy
Wow Joe, some guys have all the luck with such a wonderful view from their room 😉
This is a beautiful and dreamy shot. Almost a perfect image! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. Both your moon and the mosque look perfect. When I do multiple exposures I get “ghost images”. How did you avoid that?
Hey Joe, that moon is so much photoshopped:-)
Hi, it’s really nice.. i have couple of shots of grand mosque, but you always made it so unique.thank you for sharing and i am enjoying your book.
Joe, If you have any pull at Nikon, I would like a firmware update for my new D90 so I can do multiple exposures too. My twins eat my D3S money.
Wow. Seriously. Wow.
Hi Joe,
great work again.
Amazing !!!!!!!
A-W-E-S-O-M-E…
I stumbled on your blog and now am in love with the work.. Any chance getting that Abu Dhabi shot at night time.. ?? I can only imagine how pretty it would have looked with complete darkness and beauty in the middle.