From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris
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Shoot: Parisian street scene
From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris
Shoot: Parisian street scene
- I spend a lot of time walking during the day even when Andrew, my videographer I'm working with is not with me, and I always have a camera with me, even in the middle of the day, because even when the light is high in the sky and you don't expect that you're going to make anything more than just a quick vacuum shot, you know, just kind of sucking things up, you never know when you're gonna turn and you're gonna see an alley with just amazing light like this. So what's happening, really, is the light is bouncing off of these buildings and making a glow inside the alley that as a photographer, I'm just, like, I'm drawn to, I'm like gorillas at the monolith here, this is like, I can't not go see it. So let's walk into this alley and explore it a little bit, and see if we can turn a nice scene into a nice picture. So, I've worked my way in, and what is obviously happening here is I've got a nice set of leading lines, I've got some bright area that I'm going to be clearly waiting for…
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Shoot: At the top of the Montparnasse Tower11m 39s
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Shoot: At the Pompidou Center6m 1s
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Experience: Luxembourg Gardens2m 9s
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Experience and shoot: Sunset at Sacré-Cœur2m 29s
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Shoot: The Eiffel Tower2m 46s
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Shoot: Parisian street scene8m 34s
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Balancing photography and travel at Pont Des Arts1m 5s
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Pro tip: Walk every evening52s
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Shooting with a Diana plastic lens5m 24s
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Light table: Reviewing the Paris shots6m 25s
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