I did another round of screening and filtering of photos taken during Let's Take A Walk 2008.

You see the fun part of photography, is well, taking photos. The fun comes when you consider your options to get the right exposure. When you think of framing your picture. When you choose the best angle. When you try your best to make each photo tell a story. When you are in the heat of the moment and just want to capture that precious scene. And in all these, you show your artistic flair.

To fire flash or not?
What aperture to use?
What shutter speed to use?
Will I suffer from handshake blur?

And what is the torturous part? It is when you screen through your photos. When start to comparing your shots to keep only the best, and delete the rest. I have to remind myself with," quality, not quantity."

After an hour or so of filtering and screening, your eyes get tired, you become dizzy and you start to be sloppy. You begin to be less aware of differences in sharpness, differences in colours, differences in expressions of people..... the list goes on.

On some days, if you're lucky, you get more 'keepers.' Which means you delete less and keep most of your pics. If everything is going against you, and you screwed it all up, most likely you would end with probably 5% of total shots.

That is why I've learnt not to shoot pictures like a machine gun. Take some time. Relax a bit. After all the more you shoot, the more you have to filter. Tedious job. So even if the high end cameras these days boast 11frames per sec burst speed, I would use it only if absolutely necessary.

Anyway, I played with photoshop again and I did some processing. Tell me which suits you most.

Here's the coloured version:

Here's the B&W version:


Here's the same B&W version, but darker:

G.Y.