I had to add so much noise to the sky here, just to get rid of as much color banding as I could. The lights in the Eiffel tower create quite a strong glow around it, especially with low clouds as there were the evening I took this. I could see the color banding already on the camera screen. It would be so nice if we finally moved to 16-bit images, and of course 16-bit screen, to get rid of this, and make pictures looking so much better.

This is a two shot vertorama, with two additional shots used to darken few highlights on the tower.

In the month I have been using the 17mm TSE, one of the things I learned, was not to do panoramas like this one. Shifting the lens along the longer side creates just so much more distortion, than shifting it along the short one, that it’s just not worth it. On this shot, you don’t see it that much, as the buildings were quite close and are uniform, but once you use it on a wide landscape for instance, it’s very noticeable.

Btw. the other thing I noticed, was, that photos I edited on the Surface Pro 4, look crazy sharp when viewed on my normal monitor. I really wonder why, since I used the exact same way of sharpening I always do.

This is a three shot panorama, taken at La Defense in Paris.

I have really mixed feelings about this photo. It’s a different color variant of a photo I posted earlier, taken on a different day, with the same composition. I really like how the different colors of the Eiffel tower make it look, but than I always remember why there is a Belgium flag there, and that makes it quiet hard to like it :/. I do wish there were more happy reasons to change how the tower looks, instead of these sad ones.

This is a two shot vertorama, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

While I was in Bordeaux, I really wanted a photo of the mirror fountain (Water mirror – Le Miroir d’eau). To bad, it was still too early in the year, so there was no water in it, so no mirror. Still, I went out to it in the morning to get few shots, and here is one of them. This is of course not the water mirror, that was right behind me when I took this shot :)

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

I needed a bit of a rest after all the traveling around, so there have been no updates in few days (but I will catch up :)). But now it’s time to get back to work and edit and edit and edit.

So here is another vertorama taken in the La Defense part of Paris. This one was taken right from the ground level, looking up a bit. This is a three shot vertorama, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.