Last year, I got some nice photos of the wonderful Copenhagen Pride Parade. So this year I had planned to do it even better. Unfortunately, I did not have time to go through with my intended project, but I still managed to take some photos at the parade. Hopefully I also learned something from last year, being:

• Make eye contact with people, smile to them and thank them by waving or doing thumbs up afterwards.
• Do I want a short DOF or a long DOF? – Always think about the aperture. Lots of pictures from last year had either too large (only bokeh outside of subject’s face) or too small an aperture (too much details of the background). The challenge is to be able to tell from the scenery whether the background will add to the image or only distract.
• Get closer to the people! If you get closer, you will also get better eye contact and a closer presence of the person.
• Be realistic and don’t shoot thousands of pictures – when am I gonna take the time to sort and post process these? I took over 3000 pictures last time – this time I shot around 500. I’ll be the first one to admit taking loads and loads of pictures – it’s also a really good method of improving yourself as a photographer (I’ll maybe write about that later) – but at a point I just felt I had to go the other way, trying to be more effective on the “great pics / # of shots” scale.
• Think about where the (strong summer-) light is and choose where to stand. I did not remember this as much as I should have.

Check my photos out below and please let me know which one you like the best.

Best regards /Björn

Posted August 7th, 2009 19:14 in Events, Photoposts.