After I made gentle pastels of the Opéra Garnier, I walked to the other corner, where I found something even more dramatic: overlay ornate towers, the Eiffel Tower, and a sunset together for something spectacular.

The upscale Printemps department store spans two buildings and is tied together architecturally by these ornate, gilded towers on the corners. As I looked west towards the sunset, I included the foreground Printemps tower and the distant Eiffel Tower together.

Given my Fujifilm zoom, which has a range of 24mm to 120mm equivalent and a landscape vs. portrait orientation, I had many framing options, and I experimented. I used a 43.8mm equivalent in the first photograph, similar to how the human eye sees the scene.

I then went to my widest option, a 24mm equivalent, that pulled in another Printemps tower in the foreground to the left.

Zooming into a 64mm equivalent and opting to truncate the Printemps tower, I still captured most of its ornateness. However, it allowed for a more prominent Eiffel Tower. It’s an unusual framing for me, but I think it works.

Shooting towards the northwest corner, I documented the rear of the department store and its two corner towers with a modest leading line formed by the deck railing. We walked to the north side, where I shot my last scene, which I’ll show tomorrow.

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