This is a follow-up to this image, a shot of this falconer and his falcon taken at the Bab Al Shams resort, near to Dubai.

I underexposed by two stops to create the silhouette and used an aperture of f/16 to create the star-burst effect.

The post-production was also relatively straightforward: I shifted the white balance in Camera Raw to cool down the image, added a few curves to increase the contrast, and then transformed the image to make a slight change to the composition.

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5.44pm on 13/3/11 Canon 5D Mark II EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 57mm f/16 1/2000 aperture priority -2 evaluative 100 no RAW Camera Raw Photoshop CS5 none minor transformation