It's my last session with Sab and we are doing some night shots. We are in the area around Opera to work on shooting the grand boulevards in their Christmas glory, and to look at techniques and effects that capture the feel of Paris at night. We started in a cafe, where we had lots of time to work on indoor lighting issues ("lots of time" because the waiter was thoroughly confused by my order of coffe with cognac
in it!). I tried using depth of field to isolate a subject in a scene, using slow shutter shutter speed and playing with reflections. Here are the cafe shots: the first shot would have been stronger if the waiters were making coffee, rather than discussing a bill. In the second shot, I like the idea of the girl being visible through the shoulder of the moving waiter, but we aren't getting enough info about the girl to make it an interesting story.
Seems he has an unwelcome ghost!
L'addition, s.v.p
We then took to the streets to shoot the boulevards, only to find that they were in the middle of the change-over from Christmas lighting to new year sales. The objective was to try and convey the story of the night workers undertaking this grand effort.
We worked on some street shots using zoom for the impression of movement and long shutter speeds to create a faux-double exposure - that was fun!
Late for the last metro?
Sab as ghost critic
At that stage the sub zero temps forced us into a tex-mex cafe where I had nachos and desperado beer, while sneaking one last story shot about a first date.
Thanks Sab for a great course - I am now prowling the Brisbane streets, on the lookout for opportunities to tell more of a story in my pics!
Amandine
Seems he has an unwelcome ghost!
A bear window cleaner?
Late for the last metro? 
