
I heard a police siren behind me and turned around into the strong winter sunlight to see this spectacle of hundreds of people rollerskating at high speed through the city streets.
It was a very dramatic moment and I thought this particular shot, of the many I took, was particularly apt with the statue of the charging cavalryman in the background who looks like he is pursuing them.
This photo was taken just off the Rue de Rivoli where it meets La Place de La Concorde so it really is right in the heart of the city.
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HOT TIP FOR ALL AM3 CONTRIBUTORS :
I've been having problems for ages with my uploaded landscape orientated images looking fuzzy and not as sharp as they should be....well I finally found the answer this afternoon in an answer by Jason Kravitz to a query in the forums .....if you too have been having this problem the answer is to make sure you resize your photos to a maximum horizontal dimension of 800 pixels (vertical size is not limited). Anything greater than 800pixels and AM3 will automatically resize it leading to the reduction in sharpness.
Please feel free to copy and paste this advice into your own AM3 blogs as I'm sure there are lots of our fellow AM3ers out there having this same frustrating problem...it would be great to sort the problem out for as many of us as possible.
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@Johnnyanne: Thanks very much Johnnyanne!
@eddy: Cheers eddy!
@Henrik: Thanks very much Henrik - the light was very strange with that low winter sun casting such long shadows. I was so pleased that the meter on my camera managed to cope so well as I didn't have time to mess about with exposure compensation. I hardly needed to make any adjustments at all in post processing!
@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine - I was very lucky with the light that day and took loads of interesting photos (at least that's what I think :-)
This is my first winter with a camera and love taking photos into the sun when it's low in the sky like that!
By the way, thanks for looking at the link from yesterday to the DPReview Nikon page. I was pleased with them too but believe it or not they dissapeared with barely a ripple - its weird as the Fuji ones were well received on FTF.....just one of those things I guess :-)
I'm going to post another night scene one here from Montmartre tomorrow as I loved the light on it.
@Steven: Thanks very much Steven!
@merdax: well zombies isn't exactly what I had in mind but thanks anyway for the compliment!
@Brian: Cheers Brian - I'm really pleased that you liked it!
@Eleftheria, 9 years old,: Thanks very much Eletheria!
@momo: Thanks Momo....it was a weekend so a lot quieter than normal but you're right I usually try and keep my photos as uncluttered as possible.
@Sandrine: Thanks Sandrine!
NIKON D40
1/250 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
27 mm (35mm equiv.)