Catalin Marin is an amazing photographer based in Dubai, UAE, who specializes in architectural and interior photography as well as corporate and environmental portraits. His website is a treasure trove of beautiful pictures which are a delight to behold. The great thing about his blog is that here he shows his readers how the correct use of technology and editing software can dramatically improve the quality of the photographs. His trick is to show both the post edit version of the photograph as well as the raw photograph as captured by the camera, on mouse hover. There is a world of a difference between the two images. If you are in anyway connected to photography, I would seriously recommend that you peruse his blog and see the effects for yourself.

His creative imagery has been used by a number of corporate clients like Virgin Australia, Dunlop and United Colors of Benetton etc. The high-points in his career were when his photograph titled "Foggy sunrise in Dubai" was selected to be the image of the day for the month of November' 2011 on National Geographic and became the most popular photo of the day for the month of November and ended up being included in the best photo of the day images of 2011 on Nat Geo and winning the Best Asian & Oceanian Photoblog award at the 2011 Photoblog Awards. He is also an avid traveler and likes to click away on all his travel undertakings snapping up images of people, architecture, landscapes, interiors etc. His work has been published in various international magazines, books and websites: National Geographic Photo of the Day, TimeOut Dubai etc.

Catalin was good enough to spare some of his valuable time, and talk to us about his passion for this artform. Checkout what he has to say: