Hey everyone,

 

I'm a student from Hanover, a rather small town in Germany. I've always been interested in photography but only really started to regularly go out with my camera or make photos on vacation half a year ago.

 

raban on 500px

 

I'd really appreciate feedback, criticism or advice on my work and I hope this platform is a way to improve my skills or to get inspiration for new photos.

 

My greatest inspirations (in terms of photography); my mother, Brassaï, Anders Petersen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Karl Lagerfeld, Andy Warhol, James Nachtwey and of course many people in the Flickr community. Oh and Bruce Gilden is the man!

 

I also read a lot and I am greatly inspired by various writers. I like both modern and older arts, be it sculptures or paintings and collages.

 

I love fashion.

 

I love taking photos of the streets and it's people, I love portraits but only the ones where I chose the subject. I would never want to work as a photographer in a way of taking orders.... (I could probably imagine to work in fashion but it's utopistic because I really just do what I want in my photos, not what someone tells me)

 

Thank you,

Raban

  

Equipment:

Mostly:

Canon EOS 50D

Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS

 

In the past:

Pentax K20D

 

Sometimes:

Canon AV-1

B/W Film

 

I do post-processing with Photoshop and Lightroom. I send in film photos but I'm planning on setting up a darkroom.