Paris at night C&C

Trogdor

Was over in Paris for the last few days. Here's a few pics for C&C please

Eiffel Tower



Arc de triomphe



La Défense



I was actually approached by the police and told tripods were only allowed to be used by professionals in he city just after I had taken these but fortunately I'd already got a few decent ones, by my standards anyway:p.

PopeBuckfastXVI

The first one could be cropped, there's a lot of black space at the top in my opinion.

The second one seems very desolate and there's a couple of bits of rubbish on the ground, it leaves me cold really. Maybe if there was a bit of colour in the sky it would be better?

The third one is a bit too busy for my taste.

Eirebear

The first one i agree with popebuckfast, it just all seems too far away.

The second one i actually really like, Im not a massive fan of paris, i fing it quite a cold city and this picture shows that for me.

The third i think would work better as a street scene, without the focus of the building in the background strangely.

Trogdor

Thanks for the input guys. Here's a cropped version of the first shot

I'm not going to say that the cold feeling is what I was going for in the second one because I wasn't going for anything, just wanted to try a bit of night-time photography:p but that is what I like about the picture too.

quilmore

good stuff
I've just come back from Paris a few days ago after 2 weeks of "work"

the cropped one looks much better
I like the arc one, but I'd had zoomed in a bit to tight it to the arc and the tower and preventing that perspective distortion you've got there

I'll PP some of mine and post them on a new post
BTW, no-one said anything about tripods, I've been out taking pictures almost every night

Eirebear

yep, crop looks much better for me.

Thirdfox

I'm surprised they didn't tell you that the eiffel tower's lighting system is a copyrighted image and stop you from taking any pictures (weird story about that - the tower itself is not copyrighted but the Philips lighting system is).

Nice pictures anyhow - just make sure you're on the right side of the law (applies to many bridges in the US too).

edit:
Did you have a UV filter on? It just seems there's some ghosting/flare in the shots (I see it often in shots that were taken at night with a UV filter left on).

RoryW

Paris is great for photography. Heading there in a few weeks and looking forward to it

I've seen loads of people use tripods with no problems. I was only stopped once near the louvre. It was okay to take a photo outside the barriers/ropes but not inside them.

Trogdor

Thirdfox wrote: »

edit:
Did you have a UV filter on? It just seems there's some ghosting/flare in the shots (I see it often in shots that were taken at night with a UV filter left on).

Yes I did, I was wondering what was causing that ghosting effect. Thanks for letting me know what was causing it:)