LUTETIA - Travels in France with the X100 | Paris
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 6:55 AM 
I wished for a hundred days.
A hundred days to walk the streets aimlessly, devouring images like a whale feasting on plankton, swallowing an ocean. A hundred days to absorb the boulevards, the stressed out crowds and immensity of it all. This city was built for giants to roam.
I never felt this small.
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Reader Comments (19)
Damn. Excellent. Have a great time there.
Absolutely fantastic! Loved the Eiffel Tower shots! its would be great if you could do another tutorial to achieve this type of look in Aperture!
Thanks
Gary
Thanks man, I'm already back though :)
Thank you Gary, I've had several requests for a more advanced "treatments" Aperture tutorial and I have something in the works. Stay tuned ;)
But I do have to be honest on the Eiffel tower shots: I used Nik's Silver Efex Pro on both of them. Primarily for the U-Points which made masking a lot easier and more precise than using Aperture 3's brushes, but also for the Tri-X film emulation — I'm pretty crazy about Tri-X.
While it's quite possible to come close to the Tri-X look natively by using a combination of Curves and Tint wheels (without saturation) — something I do quite often — Silver Efex really nails it completely. Still using version 1 though…
For reference, I also used Silver Efex on pics 11, 18 and 21. Everything else was processed with Aperture 3's built-in adjustments.
what can I say? superb! This is as close to being there as it gets...!
Juat curiousk..did you shoot jpeg or raw?I am still on the fence on this one and go back and forth between the two!
I went jpeg all the way. I've really made my peace with using jpeg on this camera, first because the files are amazing (imho often better than raw conversions) and second because I can just shoot without ever thinking about storage.
It does mean I sometimes miss shots that I can't get back in post but I see it as part of the deal. I'm sticking to film mode with the X100 ;)
Excellent, Excellent. Great captures, compositions and post processing
Fantastic shots as usual Patrick. I'm back to shooting JPEG on the X100 too. I love the look of the files straight out of the camera and they only need a little tweak in post. I haven't even tried Velvia or Astia yet. I need to get Silver Ffex Pro, my 30 day trial ran out after a day, but I liked it loads. The Eiffel Tower shot is awesome.
You've made me decide to take a holiday...my wife thanks you.Keep up the stunning work and thanks for the Twitter FF.
Thanks a bunch Morten. Always great to hear from you :)
Well you'll have to send me a postcard then… ;)
Silver Efex is an awesome tool. I use it a lot less since upgrading to Aperture 3 but as I said in my reply to Gary's comment, it just nails down the film look and I can't say enough about U-Point technology.
I have to try the new version. I've heard great things about it.
Always great to hear from you. Thanks Morten!
"I need to just get over my raw safety net mentality!"
That's the hardest thing to conquer. It's made me realize there's a flip side to raw shooting — it's a bit like forgetting phone numbers after adding them to your speed dial. It's good to be forced in making all the right decisions at the time of shooting, it flexes the muscles…
Btw, I used that button once on the trip and ended up using the JPEG file anyway. Go figure.
Always great to hear from you Morten. Thanks!
Beautiful and provocative photographs. My favorite is the tour bus passing the Eiffel Tower!
Great shots. Awesome wordsmithing.
These are stunning photos! My first visit to your blog, and I will be back.
Isn't that the actor Mathieu Amalric in the photo taken in front of the Faculté de Droit?
Thanks Richard and welcome :)
No, that's my very good friend Bernard Falaise who's an amazing avant-rock guitarist and musician. He was in Paris on a six months art grant when we visited.
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