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Paris

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:23 am
by fishafotos
I thought I would put up a few shots of Paris from a couple weeks ago, please let me know what you think.
It is such a photogenic city, i got more keepers there in 3 days than i have in london in 4-5 weeks!
Come one, you have to take one pic of it!
Try-hard Sydney Harbour!
Any critisism you can offer (no matter how small/large/harsh/kind) would be greatly appreciated.
Harry[/img]

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:17 am
by Onyx
The Effiel tower one is certainly a unique perspective that many tourists wouldn't have taken.
The graffiti one doesn't immdiately scream 'Paris', in fact it's seems like a very generic inner city sorta pic. Maybe that's not a criticism, I just fail to appreciate 'street art' I guess.

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:26 am
by radar
Harry,
nice one of the Eiffel tower. I'd be tempted to clone out the bright spot to the left of the top of the tower.
Last one if very as well. I just wish you had the full bridge,
Paris is great city, a photo opportunity around every corner
give us some more,
André

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:23 pm
by gstark
Harry,
These images are all way too big. The smallest has a filesize of over 600K in size, the largest something in excess of 800!
And the images sizes each have a largest side of 1000px.
You need to (1) post images that, as a general rule, have their longest side that is not any larger than 800px, and (2) significantly reduce the filesizes, so that no image's filesize is greater than 200K; less than 100 is even better.
There is no reason why this cannot be achieved, and you can always embed a link to a high res version of the image so that members may, if they wish, view those higher res versions at their liesure.
I know that Peter has already asked you to review the
FAQ, and you have stated that you did, so I'm puzzled as to why I needed to edit your post in the manner that I have.

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:43 pm
by Marvin
I really like the last 2. The eiffel tower picture is very appealing. I'm not sure about the first one - the splash of red in the grey stands out.

Posted:
Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:57 pm
by fishafotos
Oh crap, sorry about that, I changed my settings to host some other pics earlier and i forgot to change them back.
I'll re-post them now.

Posted:
Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:49 am
by garlino
Love the eiffel tower photo.

Posted:
Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:07 am
by Grev
I will always love shots from Paris.


Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:19 pm
by obzelite
1 powerball and off to paris with my 1dsmk2
i loved it there, fantastic city a little ruined by the french ppl who insist on using the streets as a urinal for themselves and their pets but maybe i was just stayed in the crappy bit.

Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:24 pm
by Alpha_7
Harry, my wife and I will be in Paris for a few days I think at this stage 3 days in late June. What would you suggest I visit, obviously the Eiffel Tower is on the list, but what can't I miss ? Cheers!

Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:12 pm
by wendellt
the first one is really cool
exposure on eiffel cool as well, i always missed blue hour in paris always stuck inside some museum or gallery
craig in paris you have to concentrate on the left bank latin quartre, Saint Germain De pres, marais and Montmartre(artists village)
thats the cool hip and happenin' bohemian 'artiste' areas, the right bank is much more wanky and upper class
unless you like that sort of thing

Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:46 pm
by fishafotos
Craig (Alpha),
I would strongly recomend going on an open-top bus tour (sounds lame but keep reading) there are about 10 busses that do 3 different routes around paris just like a normal public bus only they have earphones which u listen to and you can get on and off the busses when u please all day, it gives you a great shooting perspective from on top of the bus and because it is open top you don't have to worry about shooting through dirty glass! It is the best thing i did, i got sooooo many shots!
Other than that, go on a train oput to some poorer areas for some increible urban decay style stuff, you wont believe how photogenic it is.
Thanks for all the comments
Harry

Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:48 am
by flipfrog
fishafotos
grat stuff
in regards to the last one, can u tell us more how it was made, like ISO, shutter, etc. i think its great.

Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:12 am
by fishafotos
cheers flipfrog,
The details for that one are:
ISO 100
f/1.7
18mm (Sigma 18-200mm)
15 sec
I turned the temp down slightly and gave it a little bit of contrast during the pp.
Harry