Le Louvre, in center of Paris. Many shots are already made of this pyramid and probably many more will be taken. I wanted to have my own version :-)
TECH-INFO: This image is made very similar as the one posted yesterday. Also no tripod used because the security in Paris is extremely allergic to them. I shot 3 NEF files, all hand held. In DxO I developed 5 JPGs from those three.Then aligned and merged them to a HDR file in Photoshop. Tone mapped it in Photomatrix and used various masked adjustment layers, mostly curves and selective color tools, in Photoshop. The sky is a bit darkened and made more blue. The palace is enhanced using the soft light blending mode which actually enhances the contrast in a way I like. No vignetting is added.
TIP: the image may look cooler if you watch it from a certain distance. The lines and reflections become more interesting.
Diagonal View of Le Louvre
Le Louvre, in center of Paris. Many shots are already made of this pyramid and probably many more will be taken. I wanted to have my own version :-)
TECH-INFO: This image is made very similar as the one posted yesterday. Also no tripod used because the security in Paris is extremely allergic to them. I shot 3 NEF files, all hand held. In DxO I developed 5 JPGs from those three.Then aligned and merged them to a HDR file in Photoshop. Tone mapped it in Photomatrix and used various masked adjustment layers, mostly curves and selective color tools, in Photoshop. The sky is a bit darkened and made more blue. The palace is enhanced using the soft light blending mode which actually enhances the contrast in a way I like. No vignetting is added.
TIP: the image may look cooler if you watch it from a certain distance. The lines and reflections become more interesting.
Excellent and creative framing. But he sky is grey (usualy with Paris pollution it is white) and the Louvre is pink (usually it is white, trending to grey because of dirt). I am not sure not to prefer the original colours... which would mean that I prefer pollution to your depolluted vision !!!
Like the angle and perspective in this shot. Interesting architecture that you captured superbly. Feel like I'm standing right there. Excellent composition.
LightningPaul: Reading this gives me the feeling that I totally succeeded with this image. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
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