There are exactly two buildings in the world that I love.
One is the Harbour Bridge in Sydney and the other one is the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Those massive hand-bolted steel constructions really do it for me.
I kept the best part of Paris for last. Living in a new apartment right next to the Eiffel Tower, I can get prime shots day and night, without any tourist head sticking in the frame ![]()
The first one is quite a famous one and I saw at least two dozen people take the shot while I took it.
The only difference is, that they all shot it handheld (at midnight) and I had my beloved Gitzo tripod and a Nodal Ninja Panorama Head (will post more about it another time). This way I got a nearly perfect vertical shot. The below photo is uncropped, unrotated and unedited. This was straight from camera.
It goes to show, if you want to retain max quality of your image (e.g. by shooting raw), it is also a good idea to try to frame your shot, so that you do not need to crop it in post. This reduces your image dimensions (effectively the megapixel of your image) and thus will prevent you from printing it as large as possible, should you wish to do so (and if not now, maybe at some future point in time).
I am a firm believer of not cropping the image unless really necessary. Try to frame up the shot before you take it, so there is no need for cropping in post.

“Eiffel Symmetry”
Here is another one that will get you giggling. Every night at exactly 1am the caretaker of the Eiffel Tower kills all the lights. Just like every other major building in Paris. They all switch off like a clockwork.
However last night, the caretaker must have been drunk or in some other happy condition, he ended up not switching off all the lights. He killed all but the top half of the tower. And so the Eiffel Tower was glowing happily all night long, like a huge Christmas candle. Ergo the title for the next shot ![]()
“Christmas Candle”




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