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Coverage of various events, protests, marches, concerts and talks.
Diverse groups of people doing something.
I'm not sure what I think about the event, it was better and more spacious then one I was to few years ago.
It's very clear that people in costumes have much more fun then everyone else and I have most fun looking at them.
Various photos for the Wiki are linked on top. Here are general photos I liked.
I've tried to balance generic "OMG look at them" with actual photography. I'm finding my preference is to take photos of people in costumes "candid" instead of hero poses.
Ratio of photographers to other visitors was super high, I don't remember when I last saw so many people with film cameras either.
My plan was to mostly take photos of people to get better at it, I'm not great with cars either but I don't have much interest in those.
I've brought my IR camera to test how people will look and I think I will use it more.
The main learning was that while bringing vintage lenses to look cool is fun it would have been much better to just grab a zoom as a spare.
It was a fun experience with great energy, but a more organised event required some more preparations I didn't do.
Ideally try to get a Press Pass, apply 1 month in advance at the latest.
If that fails bring a small collapsible stool.
Find a spot early, ideally in front of a phone box if you have the stool and just stay there the whole time.
Spend more then 5min thinking about the camera rain cover...
It was the first protest I ever had a chance to photograph. Great experience
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