Shooting in Paris: The Best Opportunities
Choosing to shoot in Paris will not only give you the most beautiful city in the world as your backdrop, but also offer some of the best variety and opportunities to create dynamic, unique and outstanding images of yourself. The city offers everything from classical settings teaming you and its major monuments, allowing for perfect vacation photos, but also lesser-known spots to give you more neutral photos focusing on you without reference, great for those looking to update social or work profiles.
Make sure to visit our Pinterest page, where we created some image boards of various locations around the city to help you learn more about where to shoot.
MOST POPULAR
Let’s first get into the big names of the city. The Eiffel Tower, Louvre, The Marais, Montmarte…the list is endless. Here’s “15 Paris Photoshoot Locations” with some of the most popular places in the city for photography and some great tips to think about. Shooting at popular locations can actually offer great one-of-a-kind and creative photos where the model, photographer and location work together to build an effective three-point photo. Let’s do it!
OTHER LOCATIONS AND NEUTRAL BACKGROUNDS
There are countless amounts of content and location options to be made in the various areas of Paris, but sometimes you are looking for more direct photography of you or your party. Paris gives additional backdrops for your images, allowing for a wider range of photographic looks. Surface textures, from ancient to modern, as well as a variety of streams of light across its roads and through its gardens for those looking for perfect profile imagery or model book photography. Watch “Paris Balcony Photoshoot” and “Street Photography In Paris With Model” by Jessica Kobeissi where she takes you through some what else is available throughout the city and “Shooting Tess In Paris” by Peter Coulson with an Parisian interior shoot.
Still not sure where you want to shoot? Take a walking tour and do some scouting. Not in the city? Check out these 4 walking tour videos from spring, summer, fall and winter (in that order), throughout Paris and maybe you’ll spot something interesting. I know these streets pretty well between travel, work and day-to-day use and its never a dull moment, never without its architecture, history and vibrance that make it an amazing setting for any type of photo shoot.
ADVANCED
If you want to get scientific, use Photo Ephemeris to pinpoint exact dates, times and locations throughout Paris, based on the sun’s positioning. Don’t forget to check local weather, with weather.com or meteofrance.com to know conditions and cloud cover. But most importantly, save a bit to unpredictability and we can let Paris tell us how to work to take up some excellent opportunities for amazing imagery.
