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[Ramblings]

Two days and I'll be done with this boring exam... well, it's not that boring, but I hate oral exams, and I have lots of them... what a pain! I often (probably ALWAYS) feel I need some more time to study better and get prepared, since I'm always forgetting lots of thing once I'm in front of a professor. I'd really need a time machine for that purpose...

I didn't thought I would have enjoyed taking photos inside a museum, but I actually did! Italian museums don't really look that good, not because they're ugly (we've still got some of the best "classical" architectures in the world!) but because the expositions are often messed and blindly arranged. The Muséè d'Orsay striked me mostly because of this: there is a perfect combination and fusion between the place and the art exposed in it. Whatever you may think about it, I'm convinced that making a museum out of a (french!) train station it's pure genius!

[The Photograph]

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Not that a museum is the best place to take photos, but I actually took some I'm enough satisfied with. This is one of them. The big clock is one of the symbols of the Orsay, and yet another memento of the old train station known as "Gare d'Orsay". I took some photos of it, like a good spontaneous tourist. This one was taken from the upper balcony, which gives a view over the whole museum (you can see a wide picture of it in my current journal here ).
The sun was getting low, and the light warmer. I liked the internal/external reflections happening on the glass of the roof, and the numbers of different lines and shapes gave me some geometrical inspiration. I set the lens to 60mm (90mm eq) and tried to capture both the perspective of the lamps and the game of corssed lines of the far front against the curved grid of the roof. The aperture was set to the widest valueso that I could use a reasonable shutter speed and have some dof with the lamp in the foreground (having it completely sharp and in-focus would have distracted a little bit... in fact I wish I had a brighter lens to make it look even softer).

[Postwork]

Raw processed in lightroom (tonal splitting applied to give the cyan/gold appearance).

Description

[Ramblings]

Two days and I'll be done with this boring exam... well, it's not that boring, but I hate oral exams, and I have lots of them... what a pain! I often (probably ALWAYS) feel I need some more time to study better and get prepared, since I'm always forgetting lots of thing once I'm in front of a professor. I'd really need a time machine for that purpose...

I didn't thought I would have enjoyed taking photos inside a museum, but I actually did! Italian museums don't really look that good, not because they're ugly (we've still got some of the best "classical" architectures in the world!) but because the expositions are often messed and blindly arranged. The Muséè d'Orsay striked me mostly because of this: there is a perfect combination and fusion between the place and the art exposed in it. Whatever you may think about it, I'm convinced that making a museum out of a (french!) train station it's pure genius!

[The Photograph]

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Not that a museum is the best place to take photos, but I actually took some I'm enough satisfied with. This is one of them. The big clock is one of the symbols of the Orsay, and yet another memento of the old train station known as "Gare d'Orsay". I took some photos of it, like a good spontaneous tourist. This one was taken from the upper balcony, which gives a view over the whole museum (you can see a wide picture of it in my current journal here ).
The sun was getting low, and the light warmer. I liked the internal/external reflections happening on the glass of the roof, and the numbers of different lines and shapes gave me some geometrical inspiration. I set the lens to 60mm (90mm eq) and tried to capture both the perspective of the lamps and the game of corssed lines of the far front against the curved grid of the roof. The aperture was set to the widest valueso that I could use a reasonable shutter speed and have some dof with the lamp in the foreground (having it completely sharp and in-focus would have distracted a little bit... in fact I wish I had a brighter lens to make it look even softer).

[Postwork]

Raw processed in lightroom (tonal splitting applied to give the cyan/gold appearance).