Twilight Palais de Chaillot

Open air performance at Palais de Chaillot. Tour Eiffel was lit up.

It is quite rare to have such "Bokeh" by wide angle lens. This

"Bokeh" and the color give good feeling of Paris, I think.

If you are going to have strong horizon lines (i.e. the edge of the steps where the stone platform ends) in a frame, then it becomes important to pay attention to lining them up exactly with the borders of your photo -- this photo has a distinct lean from right-to-left that is very distracting.

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Thank you for comment, Jon. But it sounds me like a photo school lesson. Is it really distracting? This is a simple candid by wide angle lens and full size picture (not cropped). The color and the focus (out of focus effect=Bokeh) or atmosphere is much important for me. And the most important was the moment, the position of a walking man. I can't but pushing the shuter. Horizon?? Please enjoy variety rather than quality of my folder.

I wasn't trying to sound like a photo school lesson, but you did ask for a critique and so I was offering a comment on what I felt to be the weakest aspect of the picture.

 

If you want to focus on bokeh and atmosphere that's fine, it looks like you've got a lot of good material to work with. But the tilt on the horizon prevented me from appreciating those qualities in your work.

 

You could quite quickly rotate the canvas in Photoshop by (ballpark guess) 1 to 2 degrees clockwise and then we could appreciate your photography much more.

 

HTH.

Thanks again, Jon. I understand what you mean. But one degree is too much, Eiffel tower will be inclined. Exactly 0.3 degree I rotated the image adjusting by the tower. The horisontal line is not flat in nature, right side is a slope. And the lens direction is not straight to the pattern on the ground. Now the tower and military school behind are straight and flat. Can you see any change as a whole?