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Romantic Evening at the Louvre (Paris, France)
No matter how you approach the Louvre in Paris, France it is beautiful. Adding to the atmosphere on this night was a violin player sitting off to the right who was playing and entertaining the many people who walked by on their trip to explore the City of Lights.
Getting this photo took alot of patience - people were walking by all the time stopping to listen to music (luckily the music helped with my wife's patience as well) so I stood here for about ten minutes and took about ten different exposures waiting for people to 'clear' various quadrants of the photo.
I processed them all the exact same way in Lightroom and then imported them all as layers in Photoshop – working diligently to mask out all of the people in the foreground – there are a few lingerers down near the base of the pyramid but they are small. I could have brushed them out but unless you zoom in 300% you don’t see them so figured it wasn’t worth my time.
The one thing that bothers me about this location is that it isn't symmetrical. With all the perfection of the Louvre I'm surprised they put the pyramid slightly off-center from one of the main hallways leading into the open courtyard and the main entryway. I moved a few feet to the left at first but didn't like the fact that I wasn't standing directly in the center of the hallway either so decided to just have the pyramid be off-center.
Romantic Evening at the Louvre (Paris, France)
No matter how you approach the Louvre in Paris, France it is beautiful. Adding to the atmosphere on this night was a violin player sitting off to the right who was playing and entertaining the many people who walked by on their trip to explore the City of Lights.
Getting this photo took alot of patience - people were walking by all the time stopping to listen to music (luckily the music helped with my wife's patience as well) so I stood here for about ten minutes and took about ten different exposures waiting for people to 'clear' various quadrants of the photo.
I processed them all the exact same way in Lightroom and then imported them all as layers in Photoshop – working diligently to mask out all of the people in the foreground – there are a few lingerers down near the base of the pyramid but they are small. I could have brushed them out but unless you zoom in 300% you don’t see them so figured it wasn’t worth my time.
The one thing that bothers me about this location is that it isn't symmetrical. With all the perfection of the Louvre I'm surprised they put the pyramid slightly off-center from one of the main hallways leading into the open courtyard and the main entryway. I moved a few feet to the left at first but didn't like the fact that I wasn't standing directly in the center of the hallway either so decided to just have the pyramid be off-center.