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On Boracay Island
Still have much photos to edit and post process. In the meantime, this is the full HDR version of my welcome photo (right sidebar).
Station 1 of White Beach on Boracay Island- Boracay is an island of the Philippines located approximately 315 km (200 miles) south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. In 1990, it was voted by the BMW Tropical Beach Handbook as one of the best beaches in the world and again in 1996 by British publication TV Quick as the world’s number one tropical beach.- Thank you, Wikipedia
Captured in May of o-ten. Shot in RAW, converted to tif in Canon’s DPP and further enhanced in Photoshop. HDR was achieved through CS5 HDR adjustment tool from 1 exposure. Canon EOS 50D, 17mm, ISO 100, f/16, 1/60 sec with circular polarizer (CPL) filter attached.
Notice the shadows-this was shot during high noon. It was perfect hot beach weather without any wind. Without the CPL the fine white sand of White Beach would have been overly over exposed. The CPL filter acts like sunglasses for the lens, darkens the blues and evens out the whole scene. As much as possible keep one in the gear bag. Without further ado- the before and after.
Original straight from camera shot.
Click for larger HDR version
THE 31st INTERNATIONAL MANILA BOOK FAIR
Beautiful cloud cover at the Manila Bay convention area
Park in the basement open parking spaces will your have car on slow cook under the bright hot sun.
2010 Book fair took up all 3 convention halls
1/3 of the spacious interior played host to religious books
This just says it all
Childrens book reading presented in Tagalog, a dialect used in the majority of the Philippines
Book signing by prominent personalities and now authors
Childrens book area
Many books old and new offered at big discount prices
A few publishers with very well thought out booths
Until next year...
