Saturday, December 02, 2006

Under the Pyramid, Paris


I was lining this up in the entrance to the Louvre, almost as an abstract, when these two people appeared, exactly in the right position.


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Eavesdropping, Paris


I love the way the statue and the pigeon seem to be listening in on the two women.

Shot against the light, the contrast is currently defeating me.



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Man on the Metro, Paris


If I got the focus in the wrong place in the last photograph, I got it bang right this time!

I saw the guy in a gap between the carriages out of the corner of my eye, turned round, focused and caught him in a split second. Thankfully I wasn't relying on an autofocus camera.



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Hotel front, Paris


I got so carried away hiding my own reflection and making sure the main points of interest were reflected clearly in good places in the window that I forgot to watch the depth of field (such as you can on a rangefinder), and I think, got the plane of focus wrong.


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Government building, Paris


We walked and got lost.

There were embassies and government buildings in the area. Perhaps this is one.

You can also see some of the softening and vignetting suffered by the XA in the corners of the frame. It doesn't really bother me, though. The strength is in the complete package.


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Candles, Notre Dame


Inside the Notre Dame. So many candles.

I took quite a few, in between the jostling sightseers and worshippers. I like this one best, as far as it goes.



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Bear, Paris


I took my wife to Paris in October to celebrate her birthday.

It wasn't a photographic trip, so I kept the gear to a minimum, just my trusty Olympus XA, bought secondhand in Birmingham in about 1980. It's only recently that I've come to really fall in love with the camera. It's small, inconspicuous (it's black, unlike most shiny digital P&Ss, and you don't have to wave it about at the end of your arm to see the screen), and the lens is pretty good if you stop it down.

I also love this picture of a window display, although I do have a slight problem with this kind of photography. The real creativity lies with the person who dressed the window, setting up the idea in the first place, but I'll argue I found some nice diagonals and did some subtle digital manipulation :-)

I hope it makes you smile.



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Worthing Pier, late afternoon


Another of my informal project to document around the sea front where I live. It's tough trying to see familiar things in a new way. This time, I've split-toned the image.


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