No 3D modeling, no tilt and shift, no tricks that I can detect. Crazy part about this photo is that those skyscrapers sticking out of the clouds are huge, towering 70+ stories tall each. Even crazier is that this image (not mine) is shot, not from a plane or chopper, but from another building! This image is shot from the world’s tallest building which happens to be just down the road from where I’m currently working. I’m in Dubai, UAE.
Speaking of crazy, I’ve got a CRAZY internal body clock going right now. My head feels like it’s full of the same puffy clouds as the ones in the photo. I literally just hallucinated. Completely sober, I just attempted brushing my teeth with the travel case still on my tooth brush – got the thing all the way to my mouth with toothpaste on the outside of the case and everything. I need to get some sleep. Although I’m totally brain dead, a good sleep deprivation buzz is a really GOOD time. Trust me on this one. Read more after the jump – click the ‘continue reading’ link below …
If you’re interested in replicating said buzz, no problem, it’s easy. Here’s how: Spend 12 long days working on the road for back to back to back to back trips to San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, and back to Seattle. Take 48 hours of respite and then throw in a quickie to Cincinnati, a Washington DC leg, and a London jaunt for good measure. For icing on the cake take that 777 trek out to the quaint little town here in the Middle East called Dubai. Stay up late and get up early for a couple of days, and bingo, you’re there. Glad I don’t trouble you with too many RWAV’s, aren’t you?
BTW, I’ll spare you the details of what’s going on here in Dubai, and instead steer you toward a handful of great photographer friends that blog who are already here and posting. Drop in on Chromasia, Joe McNally, Strobist, and Ben Willmore – they’ll tell you all you need to know about Gulf Photo Plus.
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Sorry Stef,
As a Dubai resident, I can tell you these pics are shot from the other side of the highway – they’re taken from the Emirates Towers, which is clearly visible in the pic Chase has displayed.
Good try though. 🙂
I love your pictures, good blog!
What a freaky photo! Sorry to disappoint you chase but that will probaly be the last hallucination you will get. I was on the road in a convoy for around twenty hours. I flashed a skip to come out in the road lost my temper when he would not move. Saw a brakelight in the distance on a autobahn in Germany I stopped waiting for it to go green before I moved on. This was in the middle of a motorway. Last but not least I started talking to my reflection in the driver window.
We just could not stop had to keep going, I am amazed i did not kill myself. My doctor told me that would be the last time I will hallucinate when I am that tired.
Some wise ass will tell you to get some sleep, but you get to a stage that you are too tired to sleep. Been there man, have you got to the bit where you yawn and you feel like your mouth is full of cotton wool.
Tip if your breath smells of pear drops get as much sugar as you can down your neck and rehydrate as quick as you can. Look after yourself coz you will go man down pretty quick. Redxxxx just makes the comedown harder as well as proxxxx
I know I used to do endurance driving. Love that photo by the way. Wish i was over there enjoying the sun.