You probably already seen many photos from the Tour Montparnase in Paris. I even shared quite a lot of them. But you probably haven’t seen whats on the other side. If you ever there, you will also probably be more on the side of the Eiffel tower, as that site just looks more interesting. But today, here is the less popular side for you.

I’m including a little behind the scenes photo, so you see how I attached my camera here with a clamp (even that is from the more popular side :)).

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 24-70mm F2.8, Focal length: 65mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754

No clouds here again. My stay in Paris was quite strange like this. First few day, not a single cloud, the last few days, cloud covered. And of course the best thing is the middle, with scattered clouds where you can still see the sky. But what can you do.

This is a two tile panorama, each tile from three exposures.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2×3, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 35mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 3.2s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.858876, 2.337803

Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book

The announcements from Microsoft today were quite interesting. I’ve been planing to get a Surface Pro 3 for a while, but decided to wait for the Surface 4 announcement first, and now I have an even bigger choice, with them introduction the Surface Book. What do you think? Which one you like?

Vertical view

I shared a horizontal view form there, and here is also a vertical one. This makes the whole city look a bit different, with also the closes streets to the tower still visible in the photo. I actually regret not going to this spot a bit earlier, while it was still blue hour, but I spend that on the roof. So I have a reason go there again next time.

This is a blend from two exposures, created in Photoshop.

Technique: Oloneo Photoengine, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 23mm, Aperture: 6.3, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.842261, 2.321754

No clouds, no nice sunset, but at least one can count on a nice blue hour. And since most of my photos of the Eiffel tower are a part of a more elaborate compositions, here I went simple, just having the tower in the frame.

This is a 3 exposure 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: 35mm, Aperture: 16, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.861037, 2.292590

Macphun Creative Kit

While on the Mac subject (from yesterday :)), one more thing for Mac users. If you are looking for a set of tools to enhance your photography, you may try out the Creative Kit from Macphun. As the name says, it’s available for Mac only. You can look at this kit as an alternative to offerings from Nik (Google) or Topaz, as it give its own way to accomplish some of the same results, but also different ones.

I’m working on a bigger article about these applications, but since that can take a little time, you might miss on quite a great offer from them right now. In the preparation for an upcoming big update, they are offering a pre-order for the whole Creative kit (Snapheal Pro, Noiseless Pro, Tonality Pro, Focus Pro, Intensify Pro, FX photo Studio Pro) with a huge 80% discount (thats 89usd instead of 455usd, or 99euro instead of 504euro), and you even get the current versions right away.

So if you think that this could be interesting for you, head over to the Macphun site, for more info, to try out their trial version or to order the Creative kit.

Full of light

This shot came out a bit busier than I thought it will be. With all the lights and all their reflection, there is so much detail here, that it’s a bit hard to decide what to look at first. But thats one of the reasons HDR photos look mostly better when seen quite big, so one can take all the detail in :)

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: 27mm, Aperture: 7.1, Middle exposure time: 15s, ISO: 200, Tripod used: yes, Location: 48.887950, 2.250533