French Quarter
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Location
This was taken almost 10 years ago, along Bourbon Street in New OrleansTime
This would have been early evening/late afternoon - night quite the party hour!Lighting
The sun was just starting to fall behind the taller buildings in the downtown area, but there was still quite a bit of ambient lifeEquipment
This was taken with an old Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS6 point-and-shoot, I hadn't yet discovered the wonderful world of DSLR'sInspiration
I was just having fun on Bourbon Street and snapping pics of the fun, not a lot of thought went into this oneEditing
Wow, this is an old shot, I'm pretty sure this one is almost straight out of the camera - I might have corrected the horizon a bit, but this was shot in JPG so I didn't have a lot of data to process too much in the way of dynamic rangeIn my camera bag
These days my 'walk about' setup is a Canon RP Mirrorless with a 24-240mm lens, but I'll also carry a 5D Mk III with any number of lenses if I'm looking to shoot something specific. I do have a couple of crop sensor bodies if I want a bit more reach, the extra magnification from the 1.6 crop factor helps there. I'm usually looking for cool things at random while traveling, so I often don't plan shots beforehand - I'm a pretty impromptu/opportunistic photographer. I've found I spend the most time with various prime lenses or some sort of super-zoom so I don't have to changes lenses out in the open.Feedback
Just get out and have fun, but keep composition in mind - even if you don't have a big fancy camera you can still get decent pictures out of almost any camera, as long as you have a stead hand and compose well
