Don’t you just love how much you get with a wide angle lens. It gives such a different view of the world. And this is just the 16mm, can’t even imagine if I had the 12mm lens form Canon :)

This is a photo from the Bir-Hakeim bridge in Paris, it’s a HDR from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 6s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.856510, 2.286782

While on the topic of reflections and Paris landmarks, how about another one :) This one is from a morning blue hour right next to the Notre Dame. Their are both (this and the one from yesterday) actually a bit untypical for me, as I really do prefer landscape format to vertical orientation. There are many reasons, but I think the main one is how we, humans, see things. We just see so much more horizontally than vertically at once, so a nice big landscape photo can be so much more immersible than a vertical one. But thats maybe just my view of it :)

Most of this shot is a single exposure, with few parts blended in from a 3 shot HDR created in Photoengine.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 23mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 5.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.853066, 2.347101

I just had to take as many shots I could while having all the reflections from the puddles. And even with quite a huge amount of people walking around, I managed to get this without any of them in the shot. One has to like long night exposures :)

This is a HDR from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 11, Middle exposure time: 15.0s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.856301, 2.297177

I tried for a shot like this already last time I was in Paris, but if you were there, you know that this bridge is quite busy during the day. But as always I tried before the sunrise, on a rainy day, and there was almost nobody. Still I had to do two series of shots, to get rid of thew few people that walked into my shots, but it worked out quite nicely.

This is a blend of two same HDRs, each one from 3 exposures, created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2×3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 2.0s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.852497, 2.348230

And this is the other extreme I have luck for. I either get no clouds or these crazy stormy clouds. It has been actually like this the whole summer, going from one extreme to another. What can you do.

This is a three shots HDR created in Oloneo Photoengine, finished in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 16mm, Aperture: 16, Middle exposure time: 1/25s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754