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Assignment #15: Across Pont des Arts
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Pont des Arts is the famous pedestrian bridge over the Seine in Paris. At the left bank, the bridge ends perfectly aligned with the beautiful Institute de France Palace and its dome.
The subject is the Institute and the goal was to blur out-of-focus the multitude of people crossing the bridge all day long (it was a saturday in may, with lots of tourists)
For that, I used a medium telephoto lens Samyang 75mm f/1.8 with my regular camera Fujifilm X-T50. As it is an APS-C camera, the full frame equivalent focal length is 112mm. Settings were ISO 125, ss. 1/1500, f/1.8
The intention was to fill the frame as much as possible with the Institute, with the people also helping framing the Palace.
Focus was placed on the Institute and the long focal length together with the widest aperture purposedly blurred the people crossing the bridge.
in addition, 3 sequential images were shot, handheld, a few seconds between each shot, with the same settings and composition. The individual images were edited in Lightroom, converted to B&W and then auto-aligned and blended using Affinity Canva, the goal here being to emphasize the number of people coming and going through the bridge and to provide a sense of loss of individuality, mixing the different faces altogether.
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Assignment #15: Across Pont des Arts
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