Afterglow | La Défense
After grabbing that last shot of the towers behind the main drag at La Défense I walked past this little scene which caught my eye. I took a fairly cursory iPhone snap and continued on back to my hotel as it was about 9.30 by this point.
But while on the Metro I looked at the pic again and wasn’t happy with the smushy quality of the iPhone 11 Pro’s ultra wide lens so was agonising about whether I could be bothered enough to go all the way back and retake the same shot with my ‘proper’ camera on the tripod. I decided it was worth the inconvenience so I got off and hopped back on a train going the other way again!
I think it was worth the effort, although it took about half an hour to get back and by then they’d turned off the lights that were still illuminating the Grande Arche so I had to use some Photoshop magic to make it more visible ...
Afterglow | La Défense
After grabbing that last shot of the towers behind the main drag at La Défense I walked past this little scene which caught my eye. I took a fairly cursory iPhone snap and continued on back to my hotel as it was about 9.30 by this point.
But while on the Metro I looked at the pic again and wasn’t happy with the smushy quality of the iPhone 11 Pro’s ultra wide lens so was agonising about whether I could be bothered enough to go all the way back and retake the same shot with my ‘proper’ camera on the tripod. I decided it was worth the inconvenience so I got off and hopped back on a train going the other way again!
I think it was worth the effort, although it took about half an hour to get back and by then they’d turned off the lights that were still illuminating the Grande Arche so I had to use some Photoshop magic to make it more visible ...