Taking great photographs in an unfamiliar destination can be challenging! You travel half way around the world and then risk missing out on achieving your photography objectives because it is all so new and overwhelming. Where do you start in a city like Paris, when there are so many opportunities for creative photography?

With some local advice and advance preparation, you can come home with images that tell a compelling story about your visit, and improve your photography skills in the process. A Photographer's Guide to Paris: Ten Ideas for Taking Great Photos in the City of Light is an ebook that offers precisely this kind of advice.

Combining a mix of technical advice, general photography instruction and practical tips, these ten ideas provide you with a great starting point to take 'Better Paris Photos'. The ebook is richly-illustrated with over 30 images of Paris, including place names and meta-data to help you identify interesting locations and experiment with your own approach. While there are some Paris-specific location suggestions, the focus is first and foremost on widely-applicable ideas for taking great photos in any urban environment.

For only $5 -- less than the price of a single hot chocolate on the Champs d'Elysées -- you can approach photography in Paris as if you have lived there for years!

Ten Ideas for Photos in Paris

The PDF file is also optimized for viewing on tablet devices such as the iPad

Optimized for iPad

A Photographer's Guide to Paris is a downloadable PDF file, designed to be viewable in a variety of ways. While the quickest is on a computer monitor, it can also be easily printed for greater portability. If you plan to view it on an iPad or iPhone, there are a variety of PDF viewers available, but we recommend Good Reader in part because it allows for real full screen display.

Better Paris Photos provides information and advice about photography in Paris, France. We also offer instructional photography tours and workshops.

Better Paris Photos was founded by Sophie Pasquet.
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