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The Epic Cathedral I got this shot right before the Catholic Notre Dame police told me to take down the tripod. So I had to be fast... fast like the withdrawal method. With the wide-angle lens, people do get a little bit stretched, but I think that is okay in some circumstances. It doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the photo. And, since all the columns are leaning in and whatnot, if the people were normal sized and looked perfect while all the architecture around them was wonky, THAT might look strange. So, by keeping everything a little bit wonky, it kinda works. At least, this is what I am telling myself. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Walking to Dinner in Paris Today's photo is another one processed during the new HDR Video Tutorial. When I go to take photos of famous places, I follow sort of a star-pattern. Maybe it's more of a devilish inverted pentagram, but you get the idea... It's really hard to imagine how it would look from various compositions, so walking around it...getting closer and getting further... these can help give me idea. After outings like this, I like to find little restaurants where no one speaks English. Even though I speak a little French, I still have no idea what I'm ordering... Understanding the intricacies of French menus is a whole new level of confusion. But, it gives you a chance to look blankly at the waiter and say, "Surprise me!" - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Details in the inner cloister of Notre Dame I've continually asked people to do this, even though I rarely follow my own advice! It's great fun to take an image and re-crop it in many different ways. Sometimes you can take a single photo and make multiple versions of it. The other strategy is to take a bunch of different photos inside these areas, but that can require many lens changes... and I'm usually more interested in moving quickly from spot to spot throughout the day rather than spend time running through several lenses in each individual spot. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
My Next Trip to the Louvre You know how sometimes you go some place awesome and you think, "This is really cool, I think I'll probably come back some day." But then, sometimes, after the event, you start thinking that maybe you may not be able to make it back. You never really know I guess. Anyway, when I do go back to the Louvre in July, I'm going to spend a day inside sketching. I do like to sketch (I have a few on the About Me page), and this seems like a great place to do it. I wish I had a whole month in Paris... I'd try to go here once a week for a day of sketching. Maybe I should put this on my to do list... why not? - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Hallway to the Mona Lisa The Louvre has one hallway leading to another in an endless and awesome labyrinth of confusion. Maybe the most confusing thing is that there don't seem to be consistent floors. There you are on floor three, and then you take half a flight down, and its unclear if you are on 2 or 2.5. And then, you see a sign, and it explains in international language that you are indeed on the "yellow" floor, where in the last wing you were clearly not in a color-oriented floor but instead on 1.5. But, throughout the Louvre are huge signs that say "Mona Lisa" with an arrow pointing in one way or another. I'm sure the guards got SICK of people askin', "So where's this moner lisa gal?" - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Roman Baths in Nimes When I arrived in Nimes to visit my friend Fabien, one of the first places we visited were the ancient Roman baths. The ruins here are better preserved than those in Rome!Actually, I've heard that the best Roman ruins are along the northern coast of Libya. It will be a while before I can visit those, I'm afraid. I'll have to strike Libya off the list for a few years until things cool down. Oh... Egypt too. That's on the list but it has a little asterisk beside it. When you look at the bottom of the list it reads: "*currently in the midst of a violent revolution - consider other areas for photography, like, perhaps, Holland." - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Infinite Stairs to the Oubliette This is one of the areas where the French kept Marie Antoinette in the conciergerie. There were many mysterious parts of these chambers, and this was one of the most interesting.I one time designed a set of stairs like this back in the day with a Quake level editor. There was a website where you could upload your creations that could be shared by other level designers. I uploaded my stairs, but I don't know if they were ever used or not. I thought I saw them in E1M4, but then I realized that those stairs were actually 5x better than mine.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Love Locks in Paris There is a little bridge in Paris - maybe you have heard of it - where starcrossed lovers visit. They bring tiny padlocks with them. Sometimes they are decorated, and sometimes they are just fanciful. They affix them to the bridge that overlooks the Seine. Now, the bridge has thousands of these little love locks... It's all very nice, and perfect for some low f-stop photography, of course!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Under the Eiffel This time of night only lasts a fleeting five minutes. So, as a photographer in Paris, it's a major commitment to get in place for that dire period. There's never an easy decision, and... after all... it is Paris, so there is no "bad" place to be.I'm glad it's a city where many restaurants stay open late. I miss the "normal" dinner time, since those are the prime sunset hours. I usually try to grab a snack around 4 PM to carb-up for a busy shooting session. And then after I eek out every last minute of atmospheric light, I like to go to a late-night restaurant to edit photos and relax a little bit. Okay, actually I relax a lot.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

The Epic Cathedral


I got this shot right before the Catholic Notre Dame police told me to take down the tripod. So I had to be fast... fast like the withdrawal method.

With the wide-angle lens, people do get a little bit stretched, but I think that is okay in some circumstances. It doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the photo. And, since all the columns are leaning in and whatnot, if the people were normal sized and looked perfect while all the architecture around them was wonky, THAT might look strange. So, by keeping everything a little bit wonky, it kinda works. At least, this is what I am telling myself.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
here at the Stuck in Customs blog." href="javascript:openLB(1329632852,'',XLarge,'',529,768);">The Epic Cathedral I got this shot right before the Catholic Notre Dame police told me to take down the tripod. So I had to be fast... fast like the withdrawal method. With the wide-angle lens, people do get a little bit stretched, but I think that is okay in some circumstances. It doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the photo. And, since all the columns are leaning in and whatnot, if the people were normal sized and looked perfect while all the architecture around them was wonky, THAT might look strange. So, by keeping everything a little bit wonky, it kinda works. At least, this is what I am telling myself. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.

The Epic Cathedral


I got this shot right before the Catholic Notre Dame police told me to take down the tripod. So I had to be fast... fast like the withdrawal method.

With the wide-angle lens, people do get a little bit stretched, but I think that is okay in some circumstances. It doesn't really affect my enjoyment of the photo. And, since all the columns are leaning in and whatnot, if the people were normal sized and looked perfect while all the architecture around them was wonky, THAT might look strange. So, by keeping everything a little bit wonky, it kinda works. At least, this is what I am telling myself.

- Trey Ratcliff

Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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