ピゴスパ🧐 As I am still learning with both, photography and image editing, any feedback, critizism and comments are welcome, so what do you think of these photos❓<br>
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📖 Last year I got myself a new camera to replace our old <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CanonEOS600D?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanonEOS600D</a> - a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SonyA7iv?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SonyA7iv</a> together with a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Tamron28200?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tamron28200</a> and a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Sigma1424?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sigma1424</a>. This year I decided to challenge myself in a photography class, and visited a class on "Cool City Photography" by the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vhs?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vhs</a> in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Bremen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bremen</a>. It was a 5 day class with 3 days of excursions, and different tasks. Each excursion day we had to pick 10-ish photos at the end that got professionally printed for the next day and then we discussed them next day. Also, each day we picked our favorites of the other participants photos and last day we narrowed that selection down to 12.<br>
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Here I'll present you my 10 picks from the first day of excursions. We went to the city center of Bremen at a market day and where tasked to take some pictures of famous landmarks, as well as the market. We also got a spontaneous tour of the Bremer state parliament (the <a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/@HBBuergerschaft@social.bund.de" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HBBuergerschaft@social.bund.de</a> ).<br>
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To challenge myself, I stayed away from any automatism of the camera, with the only exception of the ISO value. So on the first day everything, including the focus was done by hand. Another challenge for me was photographing other people; something I usually feel uncomfortable doing. For the class we where not able to edit the pictures in any way; for this post I converted them from RAW format to jpg (using <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/darktable?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#darktable</a>) and added contrast using the color level and/or color curves (using <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Gimp?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gimp</a>).<br>
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It was really fun, but also quite challanging, and I am not happy with all of the results; however I am really happy to have tried it out. Two of my pictures from the first day got picked as favorites by others, and one even made it to the final 12 (the one I coined "Roland Through the Looking Glass")<br>
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