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:blahblah: [Ramblings]

(note: same description for all Louvre shots)
Just like many famous places, the Louvre is just another place where you can't use a tripod if you don't have a written permission (I wonder WHERE these permissions are given and what is the cost for them...).
Well, since I promised not to visit the famous museum to my girlfriend (and it wasn't really something to struggle about, since I'm not so crazy about huge museums in limited amount of time) I had my chance to take some "common" photos of it from the outside while Luigi was visiting it.

:firelite-photo: [The Photograph]

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris

What are you going to do when you need to get a shot done and you don't have a tripod to prevent your camera from shaking in low light? 1) Grab a stabilized lens (don't have one, but I'm working on it... :D); 2) grab a Nikon D3 (lol, not going to happen!). Well, in the end I decided to put the extra money I used to get a DSLR "in use" rising the iso sensitivity to tops. That may become, seriously, a frustrating decision for a landscaper... it was my first time shooting around without worring about using an high iso setting, I must admit it was a great experience! When you don't worry much on the settings you can concentrate more on the composition. In this case I was forced by the darkness to set ISO 1600 and maximum aperture (F/4 on my Tokina), to get acceptable shutter speeds for hand-held shooting. I took a good amount of shots at these settings, shots that surely suffer from being quite noisy, but I must say I like them the way they are!
This one is the most common of them: geometry and reflection, classic themes. I chose the b&w settings in-camera (yellow filter) to concentrate on the lights and the lines in the composition. Unfortunately there was some wind, and even though I waited quite a while I couldn't get a more static reflection of the pool.

:pc: [Postwork]

Out-of-the camera shot, RAW converted in Capture NX with recorded camera settings. Only modification applied after converting was noise filtration with Neat Image.
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!junkieenet Jan 4, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You've been featured: [link]
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*citadin Feb 27, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
Paris, Paris, Paris.. :heart:
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~ImagesOfJenius Jan 22, 2008
Absolutely amazing!

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*shutterbug226 Jan 20, 2008  Hobbyist Photographer
Hey there :wave: just popping in to let you know I've featured this deviation in my latest journal. [link] :D

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~ThEReAlWaZzAr Dec 17, 2007
It took me a while to figure out why camera flashes aren't allowed in galleries. It's to prevent you from getting a clear shot...Probably the same with tripods too.

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~tangratannakra Dec 10, 2007
Lol! :) Grab Pentax.. when the noise is not a problem :D hihih. About the shot, it is great and don't worry the luminance noise may be really artistic :) I do love is sometimes...

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~ZephonSoul Dec 17, 2007
I agree! :aww:

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~ParadigmParadox Dec 5, 2007
I like this very much, and I actually prefer the little bit of motion in the water...I think it helps the composition to feel more vibrant.

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~ZephonSoul Dec 17, 2007
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you did! I'm always a bit unsecure about water and the effect that I want to achieve with it... I feel more comfortable when I can have both options at hand, but this strongly depends on weather conditions so it can't be helped sometimes! ;)

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~ParadigmParadox Dec 17, 2007
I understand completely...I just put up two pictures of reflections of golden leaves (rather than one) for that very same reason, in my own gallery...one is a perfect mirror of leaves reflected in a birdbath, and in the other, the wind moved the water so much that you cannot see individual leaves and it looks like the water itself has turned to gold... some people like one, some people like the other. :)

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