Had to do a bit of shopping today, before I was to able edit anything, as yesterday evening I managed to shatter the pen tip on my surface pen (when it fell down straight onto a hardwood floor) and I needed to replace it to be able to work. Luckily, I found a store not far away to get a replacement smile emoticon

So here is a shot taken in the La Defense area of Paris. This is a three shot vertorama, taken with the help of the 17mm TSE lens. I merged it in Lightroom, and then did few minor tweaks in Photoshop (brightened few spots, darkened few spots, color efex pro contrast to give a bit of pop to the shot).

Almost all photos I took already in Paris, are either vertoramas or panoramas. The tilt shift lens just makes making them so easy, and the crazy wide views one gets like this are something I really like. So there will be even more of them. Here is one from in front of a carousel by the Eiffel tower.

This is a two shot vertorama, edited with Lightroom and Photoshop.

So as I mentioned before, I hate that one cant see all the details in those huge panoramas I sometimes make. So for todays photo, I’m including a zoom in version, so you can zoom in up to 100% an see all the detail of the photo :)

This is a 4 shot panorama, taken from the top of Tour Montparnasse. Overall, its around 100 Mpix big. Combined in Lightroom, edited in Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop edit, Number of exposures: 4×1, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 46mm, Aperture: 8, Exposure time: 8.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754

 
And here is the zoomable version for you. Looks best when you switch to full screen view.

I really like making these crazy detailed huge photos. To bad they never look as great once downsized. The do look great on a nice huge screen, as seen on the photo on the side. Same with this panorama from Paris. Here you can see the Louvre, as viewed with along lens form the top of the Tour Montparnasse. But as I said, it looks better bigger, you can get a 3440×1440 version here (perfectly sized for a wallpaper for a 34 inch 21:9 screen). On that one you can see the detail much better.

This is a two shot panorama, merged in Lightroom, than finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop edit, Number of exposures: 2×1, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II, Focal length: 145mm, Aperture: 8, Exposure time: 6.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754

Strange Twitter experience

I had a strange experience with Twitter yesterday. I don’t use it all the time, but visit every few days, to check whats new there. But recently, I seen only post that were really strange. Nothing from my interests (which is mostly photos of course :)), and a lot of posts from people and companies I never heard from. Stuff like gold exchanges, reality companies, bands I never heard of, sport clubs, makeup products and similar.

So I started looking into who I follow, and started unfolowing those I did not recognize. In the end, I had to unfollow 350 accounts in a row, before I got to the ones I knew about, and know I followed them. Now I wonder, if my account was hacked sometime in the past, as I can’t find any other explanation for this. Any of you had a similar experience there?

Sparkling in the night

Those of you who were in Paris know, that the Eiffel tower sparkles each hour after sunset. This looks great, but it’s a bit harder to catch in a photo, as it’s quite late and it’s already dark. And even here, you still see all the sparkling lights on, as even a bit longer exposure captures them all on. But I can live with that :)

This is a again mostly a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. I used a bit of a second exposure, to add a bit of detail in the foreground trees, even if I left them quite dark in the end.

Technique: Photoshop edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS II, Focal length: 165mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 4.0s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754