It was my first time going for Singapore Garden Festival. This festival takes place biannually (I think so) in Singapore. I was drawn to the festival because of the advertisements I saw on television and the festival official website. I thought it would be a wonderful place to take photos! In fact I went not once but twice within the same week! On the first day I went, I took more than 400 photos. And just half-way through the second exhibition hall, my batteries died on me! I brought along two fully charged batteries and yet I ran out of batteries! Never had it happened before. I must be due to the fact that I took most of my shots that day with flash. And when I came home to review my photos, I really did not like them. Flash photographing is really hard!

So on the second time I went, I went prepared. The night before, I asked in forum about how I should be taking my photos in such low light environment and what kind of settings I should be using, etc. I took another 400 over photos on the second day. I thought I would be taking even lesser since I know what to take and such. But on the second day, my batteries were able to last me throughout because I hardly took any flash shots. Most of my shots were fully manual. So in total of two days, I took almost 900 photos. But after going through 3 rounds of filtering, I deleted half of the collection. The photos I deleted are repeated shots; under exposed shots; over exposed shots; ugly shots; no meaning shots; etc. And I still do think that my photos are not very nice. Erm, seems like I am hardly satisfied with my photos every time I come back from a photo outing.

Out of all my photos, I have chosen 25 of them to display on my website. All photos went through post-processing using Adobe Photoshop. To view all the photos, you can head to My Gallery. I think the hardest part of uploading the photos is what kind of a title and caption I should give the photo. Haha! Because I do not know what are the flowers called. So I name them simply as “Yellow Flower”, “Purple Flower”, etc. Hehe! But now looking at those photos, I quite them those actually. :) Too bad I do not have macro lens.

Do I have any photographing friends? I want to make some!

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