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I took this photo on vacation with my family, while we had to wait to get our ticket to visit the top of the Eifeltower.Time
It was a night around christmas, pretty cold and dark but gladly not as cloudy as the day before, there you couldn't even see the top because it was so overcasted.Lighting
For the light i only used the available light from the tower, it was already perfectly highlighting the structure of the steel construction and defining the shape of the tower so it could differ from the dark night sky.Equipment
For this picture i used my Canon EOS 70D with a Canon 18-135mm f3,5-5,6 lens and my eye for the detail.Inspiration
Actually i wanted to take a tourist picture, but i don't like to take the same picture as millions before me did already, i wanted something unconventional, so i experimented with different perspectives and when i stood under this building i found one really good spot where i could use a steelbeam to divide the picture into 2 parts, the bottom and the top of the building, also i tried to manage to balance the picture so different lines ended up in different corners. A nice side effect was also that it now expresses a little bit the dimension of this massive tower. And now it is unique! Or atleast not as common.Editing
I was on vacation so actually i used Lightroom on my phone (the full version ofcourse) to rework it into a black and white picture i'm really into hard contrasts and clearness so i started with these and adjusted everything around it. I already took the picture as it was supposed to be so i didn't have to crop it.In my camera bag
It depends, my daily driver is a Olympus OMD EM 10 with the small kit lens (14-42mm f3.5-5.6) and a tele lens (40-150mm f4-5.6) it's small and i can bring it everywhere, like really everywhere. And if the pictures are supposed to come out good i bring my Canon EOS 70D with a Tamron SP 24-70mm f2,8, my second lens the Canon 18-135mm f3,5-5,6 a Metz 64 AF-1 flash and a tripod.Feedback
If you have lines or shapes in your picture just think where it makes sense to have them or what you can express with them by putting them on a certain place without losing the balance and the aesthetics of the whole picture. Or just think outside the box, try something new and change your perspective until you're satisfied.