From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris

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Shoot: At the Pompidou Center

Shoot: At the Pompidou Center

From the course: The Traveling Photographer: Paris

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Shoot: At the Pompidou Center

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- I'm here today in front of the Pompidou Center, which is a modern art museum in Paris. It's also one of my favorite place to shoot, not inside, but outside because this is a really busy plaza. There's a lot of people on it. You're going to see a lot of street performers, great place for people watching and street photography. The other things you're going to see is some of these sculptures. They're human sculptures and they stay very still. They work for Euros. Basically, the way the deal is, you walk up, you put a Euro or two Euro coin in their hat and they're very cool with you hanging out and photographing them. Some of them have amazing set ups. I see one today that actually is appearing to float in midair. I'm definitely going to be photographing them and hopefully another if I can find one. Let's take a little while and shoot in front of the Pompidou Center and see what we can find. When I have a very, like I call it, a target rich environment for shooting features, I tend to…

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