Syed Shakhawat Kamal, APSA, PPSA  

Nuclear Power Plant Aerial by Syed Shakhawat Kamal, APSA, PPSA

December 2025 - Nuclear Power Plant Aerial

December 2025 - Syed Shakhawat Kamal, APSA, PPSA

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About the Image(s)

This is an image captured recently, while I was flying from Ruppur Nuclear Powerplant in Bangladesh. On 10th May 2025, in the late afternoon; I was flying back to my base at Dhaka, we were passing the only nuclear power plant of Bangladesh at RupPur. It was a clear sky and the weather was very good and I got a reflection of the Nuclear power plant on the nearby Padma River.

I took this shot with my samsung S 23 mobile camera. With a f 2.4, 1/2712 sec with an ISO of 50, with no flash. A simple crop, light adjustment and using an oil paint filter is done by cs6 and there it is, for you to give your feedback. This image was captured from a distance from a higher altitude from the helicopter.

I hope you enjoy the image and any feedback is welcome.

9 comments posted

Oliver Morton   Oliver Morton
Syed, a well-composed photograph of an interesting area. It's challenging to get such a good shot from an airplane. Well done!

I noticed quite a bit of noise in the image, so I took it into Camera Raw and removed most of it. While there, I attempted to add some drama to the image by adjusting the sky and water. Your thoughts?

  Posted: 12/07/2025 20:27:58
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Syed Shakhawat Kamal   Syed Shakhawat Kamal
Hi Pete,
Greetings my friend.
Thank you for your professional edit and sharing with me. I loved the way you have recreated the scene. Thanks again.
Cheers.
Kamal.   Posted: 12/15/2025 11:34:19
Michael Laezza
Syed - congratulations on a great image. Were you the pilot to be able to have such an unencumbered view ?

I like Pete's treatment of the image as it adds an extra dimension to the image.

Cheers   Posted: 12/08/2025 01:47:57
Syed Shakhawat Kamal   Syed Shakhawat Kamal
Hi Michael,
Greetings my friend.
Thank you for your lovely words. Yes, I was the pilot on board and made this image from my cockpit.
Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers.
Kamal.   Posted: 12/15/2025 11:35:55
Emil Davidzuk   Emil Davidzuk
Syed,

The cooling towers dwarf the facility so I tried to bring the eye to them immediately

I started with the original. Did a Denise on it, used a NIK Silver Efex preset to render it in BW and then in Lightroom I added a vignette and cropped it to 16x9. I did remove the towers that are in the reflections.

Regards

Emil   Posted: 12/08/2025 03:43:47
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Syed Shakhawat Kamal   Syed Shakhawat Kamal
Hi Emil,
Greetings my friend.

Thank you very much for your effort and edit. It works well as well. I loved the sequences you shared, to create this image again.

Thank you again.
Cheers.
Kamal.   Posted: 12/15/2025 11:37:24
Adrian Schaub   Adrian Schaub
Syed very nice perspective and well done. I liked the reflections as well but found that a square format would bring them into better perspective (I used Emils version).
  Posted: 12/09/2025 18:34:29
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Syed Shakhawat Kamal   Syed Shakhawat Kamal
Hi Adrian,
Greetings my friend.
Thank you for your nice words and kind feedback.
I appreciate them a lot.
Take care & Cheers.
Kamal.   Posted: 12/15/2025 11:38:21
Chris Reinhold   Chris Reinhold
Sayed, I like how you captured the reflections of the cooling towers for the plant. I think Adrian had a good recommendation how cropping your image. It helps bring the reflections more toward the viewer's attention and reduce the distractions on the right side.   Posted: 12/18/2025 15:40:13

 

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