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Wow, Paris, HiveFest, @Lackofcolor going to the clinic, starting two courses at the University, and playing a bit of Valheim surely drained my batteries. I'm still pretty tired of all the things that have been going on and decided to take my time rebooting. Even though it took a bit longer than anticipated, I wanted to continue my travel stories of Paris, when I was photographing @hiddenblade's artwork at Carrousel du Louvre.
Summary
You can't simply visit Paris for the first time, and not see the Eiffel Tower. While I've been to Paris before, and truly enjoyed the whole city and the experience. Being in an Airbnb right in the middle of the city was quite a different one. On the second day, I wanted to take @lackofcolor to the Eiffel Tower.
Because they have changed the area around the Eiffel Tower a few years ago, I thought it would be pointless to visit the landmark on its four legs. We hadn't enough time to enter it, but we had plenty of time to look at it from a distance. I knew just the spot! The plaza with a beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower. After visiting [[Arc de Triomphe]], we took the subway and finally went to the Eiffel Tower. The subway was nice, the trip took us just a few minutes.
We still had to walk quite a bit to the huge landmark, but we could already see it. This view was stunning and it was very nice to take a photograph of the landmark. The last time I was in Paris, it was rainy and very grey. This time, we were super lucky, even though the weather forecast was rainy, we were spoiled with many clouds and a burning Sun.
When we finally got to 'the spot', we noticed that there was some food festival going on right in front of it. I was a little bit bummed out about that, as it would most probably affect the photograph that I had in my mind. But bad luck didn't just end there, once we got closer to the plaza, it turned out that they were doing some construction! Guess what, the view was completely blocked, except for a small opening.
I'm 100% sure they are closed lol. Look at all the locks!
But yeah, at times like these, you got to be creative, and you can finally put some valuable knowledge to good use. Bigger Focal Length + a wide aperture. You don't know what this means? Well, let me tell you before I show you. Because of the wide aperture, you're allowing yourself to have a decent Depth of Field, whereas most of the stuff in the foreground will be blurry. The bigger the focal length, the less you will notice that you're shooting through this fence. Because I was obstructed, for real, I was forced to make a vertical panorama. I wanted to make a panorama, but I usually always use all my time with compositions, so I get a nice and steady shot in the center. Luckily, there was this fence, otherwise, I most probably would have forgotten about it.
And look at that, a 5K by 13.5K pixels panorama shot, a little bit on the small end for it to be considered a panorama, but I don't care. The details are insane. I can spot the LED lights attached to the Eiffel tower, insane. While I usually crop my images to 2048x1365, I could crop this one into 20 of those and still have some nice quality. Bizarre.
Have you visited the Eiffel Tower?
The Eiffel Tower is a magnificent landmark known worldwide and absolutely a monument that attracts a lot of people all over the world. Many people take photographs of themselves, or of the landmark itself.
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