Showing posts with label Concorde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concorde. Show all posts

Jul 16, 2011

Crazy Lights

Champs Elysées


-- After 14th of July's Fireworks --
© Didworks

Smoke on the water
Smoke on the water...


Tunnel


Place de la Concorde


Ghosts on Rivoli Street
Ghosts on Rivoli street


Wheel


Wheels


Sep 16, 2010

First steps with my SLR

I recieved it this week end, it is just brand new and cost two thirds of my monthly income...
But this purchase is a (very) well thought: I had my eye on it since the end of last year, considering all the things I will be able to do with it.

Let me introduce you to my Canon eos 550d :

say hello honey

I've already practiced photo with a compact Panasonic tz5, which has followed me in Australia and New Zealand. I took thousands of pictures with this little darling which was so precious to me to store everything I saw overthere. A bad scratch on the lens and few bumps later (despite great care, life is hard sometimes) the unfortunate left his place to his small brother, a Panasonic tz6, with which I had fun taking macro pict last summer. i will show you later some of my best pictures taken with those small compacts, small but very good in their category.

Well, I wanted to go further, frustrated at not being able to play with shutter speed and depth of field as I wanted to do.

FYI, I subscribed to photography courses that help create throughout the year a creative book, on learning the different techniques : studio, outdoor, black and white, portrait...
I'm waiting for the answer to know if I am taken, I keep my fingers crossed!

So here I am with my semi-pro tool, ready to face the world after swoting the manual and making few trials in my place:

my cat is a top model

The value of the camera and its size that doesn't allow me to hide it in my hand as I use to do with my compacts (I have no case for it) make me pretty freak, thinking that someone was going to attack me as soon as I set my foot outside, keeping myself ready to make a taekwondo move.
The fear disappeared as I walked in the streets of Paris: first, I was not the only one with a SLR around the neck and second, nobody cares!

Here is the result of a long promenade at sunset, there is much waste and the other coud be greatly improved (framing, ISO..) but I loved doing it.


île St Louis

île St Louis' Point : art students
île St Louis'Point:  I really like this one but it's too bad there is this guy on the right
île St Louis : ivy


Quays : messages tree
Sunset, could be better

Sunset, black is black but I like the waves on the Seine
Light effects  place de la Concorde
could be much better, need to work again
Opéra Garnier : not very straight but I like those silhouettes