G1 20/1.7: few nightly impressions from Paris

street lights created a strong yellowish tint so I reduced them to B&W:



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This one inside a small restaurant near the "Pantheon"



http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkfat/4117076538/

All with the 20mm f/1.7 lens.

B&W done in "digikam" using:

• Ilford XP2 Super
• red filter
• brown tone
• luminance curve adjustment to increase contrast

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thinkfat said:

street lights created a strong yellowish tint so I reduced them to B&W:

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Your decision to render these images in monochrome has captured the ambience of a Paris street scene very well. Those yellow sodium vapour street lamps are an environmental as well as a photographic disaster. Over here in the UK, where we tend to be one step ahead of the French, sodium vapour lamps are being phased out in favour of the lower power and more directional white light of LED street lamps. The Germans , who tend to be first in the technology game compared to all European nations, have gone so far as to control their street lamps with time switches and to allow pedestrians to reilluminate them by mobile phone message.

Liking them, especially that last shot. Just enough grain in it to bring out the rustic quality in the bar
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Great shots! And it encourages me to start exploring Digikam. (Linux user)

Also I just received an e-mail saying my 20mm 1.7 was shipped yesterday, so I'm rather excited by the possibilities.

yeah, those street lights are terrible. no way to achieve a reasonable color gamut and their color itself is too weird. I've struggled but decided that it'd be better to just lose the color entirely.

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Especially last one. Thanks for sharing.

Kind regards, Herman

The first picture with the outside cafe, is that fairly near the Eifel tower, just a few minutes walk away?
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MarconiQ said:

The first picture with the outside cafe, is that fairly near the Eifel tower, just a few minutes walk away?

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If it's the one I'm thinking, it's actually just down the block from Notre Dame (was called "Le Quasimodo / Notre Dame" when I was there last). Looks like it, at least.

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jwalker019 said:

MarconiQ said:

The first picture with the outside cafe, is that fairly near the Eifel tower, just a few minutes walk away?

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If it's the one I'm thinking, it's actually just down the block from Notre Dame (was called "Le Quasimodo / Notre Dame" when I was there last). Looks like it, at least.

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Not quite. The tower is quite far from the Panthéon, definitely not walking distance. It's in the Rue Descartes, first floor of the Hotel Central and goes by Le Petit Café. You can find it on Street View. The third photo is inside the La Methode, just adjacent Hotel Central.

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