La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) From One Window (View Two)

This is the second view of a series, 'A View of the Eiffel Tower

From One Window' -- all photos taken from one window available to

the public (A box of candy to any member who can locate this window--

one box only total) This photo is UNMANIPULATED outside of

camera/color shift accomplished through manipulation of color

adjustments in camera. Your ratings and critiques are invited and

most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please submit

a helpful and constructive comment/Please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography. (Please return to view

ALL the views as they are posted.) Thanks! Enjoy! John

I don't always understand people's references when rating a picture. This is one of the most original pictures that I have seen of the Eiffel Tower since living in Paris, and yet all I see are fours and a three. The lighted tower and the circulating beam combine to give a highly original and almost eerie view of Paris over the rooftops at night. Personally, I think the photo is great.

I agree with John and I like the image and the nice beam.

It doesn't seem to me you have much to learn from our 'superior knowledge'. On the contrary, I might say the reverse could be true. I have rated your photo 6/6.

Whenever I see your name on a photo of mine, I take great note: Your ability to take a noteworthy photograph in any genre (yes I am aware you take more than undressed and undressing females) is something that has my enormous respect as I have just finished my second year on Photo.net.

 

This is just one view of many, all taken from the same window -- all organized in to one folder (one is in my single photo folder posted previously, and it also got 3s and 4s or so).

 

My goal was to take 'original' photos of the Eiffel tower, formed only after I saw it through this window, day and night as I went to my room in Paris over a three-day period (photos were taken over two days as I went back and forth to my room, haphazardly -- just before I went into the room, between television shows or photo editing, or after exiting to go out to shoot).

 

Paris and the Eiffel Tower are almost synonymous -- I have attempted to create a different view of Paris -- the Paris a Parisian might see, particular one from the left bank in a 'newer' section of Paris, not on the Champs de Mars.

 

Imagine the smog over Paris at one time as these building smokestacks poured smoke over the Metropolis in the middle of winter before modern heating methods took over. (Look at all those stacks!).

 

I appreciate your having stopped by and even more your compliment.

 

John (Crosley)

Armindo,

 

One does not know, but the 'beam' actually, at times, is two beams, but not when pointed in this direction.

 

I don't know if the beam shines year-round; it just was on each night during my Fall-Winter visit this year. Certainly it's necessary to protect aviators from running into the tower.

 

Thanks for the endorsing fine comment.

 

John (Crosley)

Well, Dan, about the 'superior knowledge', I have posted a lot of photos I thought were worth 6/6s only to get 3.8/3.8 or so, and so the ratings game is a perpetual surprise to me (but it's cool with me, because I am approaching now 10 million views overall and have learned to live with it -- overall I'm doing well enough any low rate won't sink me, nor a high rate will send me into elation.)

 

I post what I will if I like it or think I need to find out if a photo is popular.

 

Also, I'm thinking or reflecting on doing 'stock photo' or contacting agencies and it doesn't hurt to have some good feedback and some visibility (and a no. 1 ranking on Google.com doesn't hurt when meeting people on the street -- just give them my name and say 'look for me on Google.com and click the links') I couldn't have done that a year ago as Google didn't even know I existed at all until eight months ago, nor did most Photo.netters.

 

I'll write about the in-camera 'manipulation' a little later.

 

Thanks for the nice comment. (I got a really bad one yesterday on a predecessor photo in this folder -- and told the commentator to keep watching this folder, I hope he's happier now).

 

John (Crosley)

Without specifically giving out the 'secret' to the in-camera manipulation that achieved this 'effect' -- the colored beam -- be assured I used NO FILTERS in or out of Photoshop. In fact, this photo is not only NOT PHOTOSHOPPED it is taken without a tripod, handheld. (There were many discards.) This was taken on 'C' drive a digital continuation of motor drive, but used judiciously and not just turned on to take a 'digital movie' and then edited. It was taken for just this photo. A similar photo, light in the left corner also exists but it's blurrier.

 

The secret (without telling you what exactly I did) is to manipulate the 'white balance' in the camera, taking it off 'Auto' and then experimenting it by setting it on various settings.

 

One or another will yield various effects, some of which can be very pleasing.

 

John (Crosley)

The Eiffel Tower is glowing because this is (1) a time exposure and it's lighted, but also because (2) it's lighted with interspersed very bright strobe lights to create a copyrighted pattern, and using a time exposure does not capture that copyrighted pattern, and instead captures the tower as a glow -- literally irridescent or 'radioactive' looking.

 

Again, this is NOT a photoshopped photo. It looks exactly as it did as it appeared on the digital back of my Nikon D2X.

 

I'm too lazy (and too prolific with a camera) to care much about manipulating everything in Photoshop - why change everything in Photoshop when you can take new photos, and keep making new photos with the press of a shutter?

 

John (Crosley)

This is maybe how it will look when Gort, the Intergalactic Cop, comes to visit earth to stop useless wars, and wants to convince mankind that he really means business -- he'll send out his 'beam' from the Eiffel Tower, and all mechanical things on Earth will stop as in the '50s film 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'.

 

And maybe, maybe, if things go well enough, Gort will be told by the protagonist: 'Gort, Klatu, Mirada, Nicto' -- the words, I recall, to keep the robot from blowing up earth as a warlike 'rogue' planet.

 

Reference the surreal or otherworldly look of this scene, remminiscent of a science fiction movie, and 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' in which those classic words were uttered in command to the robot Gort: a classic of worldwide panic and terror, and that extended even to Paris.

 

John (Crosley)

 

(with sudden perfect recall -- now where did that come from?)

This is my favorite for being the most original perspective of the tower ever! Warm regards.

I see from comments that you're taking a tour of my posts.  Happy hunting.

 

john

 

John (Crosley)