malletray's photostream  

Took up photography by accident. My first photograph, well the first as I remember, was this.



Out of my first camera phone.

I believe that photography is an art in which you try to capture something as close as possible to what you see with your bare eyes and interpret with your mind and heart.

There maybe tons of techniques and editing tools out there for you to fake your images to look like something totally different but that defeats the purpose of what, I think, the camera was first invented for. That is to capture that moment in your life where you wish to re-live.

Having said that, most of my pictures are unedited. Other than the instant image processing going on between the camera's len and sensor, the photos I take are completely untouched.

This is a promise I made to myself. And I can guarantee that all edited photos will be clearly marked on my photostream. This is cos sometimes, just sometimes, I just worked too hard on that particular photograph and it is too hard for me to just get rid of. And if image editing can salvage it. Well, thanks be to technology! :)


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If more than ten percent of the public likes a
painting, it should be burned.
— George Bernard Shaw