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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.
Image size
830x566px 186.07 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D80
Shutter Speed
1/20 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
12 mm
ISO Speed
1600
Date Taken
Nov 16, 2007, 7:12:49 PM
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