Champs Elysees – Trailing Lights (2)
Here is the remainder of my Saturday night pictures of trailing lights at the Arc de Triomphe:
One of my favourites.
As cabs were passing by, a mixture of green and red lights.
This dude looked really cool, and I thought that was a nice picture … until I realised a lamppost was coming out of his head. Bummer!
I'm a photographer and watercolourist. I have practiced photography since childhood and digital photography since 1995. I turned it into my main occupation in 2021. I own a photo studio in Paris, France. Antimuseum.com is both my photo blog and the website for my photography business. My public Flickr space is available at https://flickr.com/yag
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Great shots love the first one did you use a filter or just a small aperture
Thanks Paul, very kind. This is indeed my favourite and that was my first go at it too on that night. All Exif data is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/yag/9057026152/meta/ from Flickr, direct. The aperture chosen was 10 on the contrary, in order to preserve sharpness on the monument and its surroundings. By checking the sharpness using the original file on Flickr I realise I have a lot of Chromatic aberration on that shot though. That could have been minimised through Lightroom.
The blur effect is due to the long exposure 1.6 seconds. In that case, I had to wait for cars to arrive at high speed, and I used my IR remote to capture the shot. I was using the 24-85 mm Nikon mini zoom on its max wide angle position, which probably isn’t a good idea, but Lightroom makes up for all distortion. The image hasn’t been tweaked not filtered. I do not use a filter other than a UV filter, and I used a tripod too. As always with tripods, you have to kill the Vibration Reduction (VR on Nikon) feature to avoid blurry pictures. Thanks for stopping by the antimuseum 🙂