Wide-angle Eiffel Tower

God this pic of the Eiffel tower is beautiful. The detail in the architecture is incredible, and I love the golden glow of the lighting. Simply outstanding.

Nice photo but I'm thinking it would have had more impact if it were de-saturated like you did with the Hawaii photo. The red lights in the center of the photo draw my eye away from the rest of the photo and then give me nothing to look at when I go there.

Saw some of your work yesterday and I'm back for more.... This shot is outstanding... to me. It is the single most interesting angle of the tower I have ever seen. Very inspirational work! Thanks so much.

Hmm.. I thought I commented on this before. Nice idea. Good angle to choose for a different shot.

Congratulations on visiting one of the most photographed objects in the world and coming away with something exciting and original.

Fantastic angle, very solid composition

This shot is one to be framed in the home!

 

Excellent shot! Nice idea to use the very wide angle this way--your perspective of this landmark gives the photo an original look, which is hard to come by when something is photographed as often as this is. (Makes me want a 17mm lens!) I am impressed with most of the rest of your portfolio as well.

I should go there also and try my best ;-)

 

How did you meter the exposure? Handmeter? Did you try several shots with different exposures?

 

I realy like this - evening in Paris Great!

Thanks, everyone ;-). Axel -- good luck in shooting it! This exposure was very long, I think around 30". I wanted a small aperture for greater DOF and to turn the point light sources into stars; so the SS was correspondingly long. To meter it, I took a spot reading on a lit area of the tower and added some light to it. With a subject like this, you can't easily screw up the exposure, just about any exposure you pick will result in *something* interesting ;-). This was taken at around midnight, and the sky was pretty dark, so the only real risk would have been going for way too much light and blowing out detail in the tower. I do wish I had gone for a slightly longer exposure, to make the park/tree underneath more visible, but I was happy with how these turned out.

Thanks Brian for your answer!

I love it.