How to take great photos at the top of the world, Burj Khalifa, or on any tall building's observation gallery?

Have you tried to take some photo of you or your family from the 125th floor of the world famous Burj Khalifa? Or from One World Trade center?

Most cameras and cellphones will give you two types of photos. If you are looking good in the photo, the background would be too dark or will wash out. It would be hard for your friends to know that you were rally out there in Dubai!
If the background is beautiful, you will be too dark. Your friends would have hard time making sure it is your photo!

How to fix this issue? Try taking some photos with Flash on. That may do the trick. However if you want to make sure you have good photos that have nice background as well as clear photos of you, here is a trick.

Take a photo in Landscape mode of only the outside. Then note down the Aperture, Shutter-speed and ISO that was used. In my case, it was f/4, 1/640 and 100 respectively.

Burj Khalifa

 Then, I change the camera mode to manual and I set above values. Then I turned on flash and took a photo of my family against the background. Voila! I had a shot that was enough to showcase to friends and prove that we did have great time on the Top of the World in Dubai!

Top of the World, Dubai