Paris in August via Instagram

Julika

Published On: 2015/08/17

There was a time when I was really into writing Instagram photo blog posts, but I haven’t been doing a lot of them lately as I felt like my images were becoming too repetitive — even though I’m still old-fashioned and take photos with both my dSLR (for the blog) and my phone (for Instagram) at the same time. However, I didn’t want to be boring and share photos of the same place several times so I didn’t write any Instagram round-up posts for my last trips.

With my newest realization that I don’t bother bringing a wide-angle lens on most trips anymore though, my phone photos (now) differ more drastically from my camera photos. On my last two city getaways to Luxembourg City and London, I took all my dSLR photos with a 50mm prime lens. This lens is generally considered a great one for portraits and food photography, but most photographers wouldn’t recommended it as a go-to lens for travel. I’ve learned that I don’t care about these photography rules though and rather look for the little things that make a destination special instead of shooting with a wide angle lens. And if I happen to really want to take a wider shot, I still have my phone for that! Thus, my Instagram photos actually look rather different from the ones I took with my camera.

Long story short: I really like how my phone photos from Paris turned out and I wanted to share an impression of Paris in photos I took on my phone and edited there in real-time. As I reduced my “proper” photography equipment to my 50mm lens only (also because it’s super light and I was traveling to Paris on a night bus (!) with a small backpack as my only luggage) my Instagram photos have a very different touch compared to my real camera ones I’ll share in an upcoming photo essay (after all, I still need to justify how August was supposed to be a slow month, but I ended up on a spontaneous city getaway, right?). And, I mean, is there a prettier place in the world to instagram than Paris?