Thanks a lot everyone! My night trip to Paris was not in vain :-)
This is of course the famous pyramid of the Musée du Louvre, built in 1988 in the main court. The view is pretty well known, and I quickly thought about it for this challenge.
In order to avoid people on the image, I went there on a week day, around midnight, so that the place was mostly empty. Since the photo is a 64 seconds exposure, people just walking through were not a worry (they were merely visible at all on the photo), but I even managed to get a clear shot without anyone at all (probably due to the fact it was a bit cold that night). I used my tilt-shift lens to keep lines parallel, so that the symmetry would be even more obvious.
Thank you all again for the very kind votes and comments, I'm thrilled!
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Christophe, was this a single capture or and HDR? I'm going to Paris this Nov and fingers crossed would love to come close to this kind of a capture...mind you I don't have a shift tilt lens...any pointers you'd have I'd love to hear...thanks
And they said you couldn't ribbon without you mug in the shot...uh...Lol :-)))))).....Awesome work. I've seen many images of this place and you put a great new perspective to it for me....Congrats!!!!!!
Very nice Christophe !!!
Did you use any particular WB setting ? (is the deep-warm-hue on the sky due to camera WB or color post processing?)
I feel like not willing to congratulate you for taking dpc ribbons anymore. It has become as nonsense as congratulating a grownup for making straight A's on elementary school tests :-)
ETA: I had not seen your answer to gcoulson about sky color. It is clear enough. Thanks!
Christophe, what method in PP did you use to color the sky?
A very simple method: just an orange "Photo Filter" in CS5, as well as a good amount of brightness. Raising brightness gave me of course lots of noise, so I used "Topaz Denoise" on it to keep it smooth.
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Dang. Need to order more ink. ...Again! ;-)
