Showcasing My Work at Geekfest 5.0 Dubai

A couple or so weeks ago, I was invited by Alexander McNabb to showcase some of my photography at Geekfest 5.0, a social networking event that takes pride in it being unorganized in the traditional sense of the term. Unlike my usual self, I took this opportunity as a challenge to myself by telling Alex I would be showcasing never-seen-before photos that I have taken. I had one week to prepare 10 photos.

It was a great challenge for me as I was working full time during the week and had other engagements after work, leaving me no choice but to focus my energy on creating the images during the weekend. It was not easy, but here is what I learned: We tend to overlook great photos amidst all the clutter of no-go shots that we take. I have trained my eye, sadly enough, to look for the most perfect photo of the bunch – one with the right exposure and composition to minimize post-processing headaches. Not that I would divorce PhotoShop.

But here’s the catch: many photos that don’t necessarily meet “the requirements” are creatively solid but may need some more post processing. Some of them are even trickier if the composition is too off – mental cropping to find an image and story within the image retrains your eye to your purpose. The beauty of it, though while not utilizing the full resolution (and hence no big prints), it’s still good enough to put on the web and serves as a basis for me to better compose my shots down the road. It’s a learning experience.

In that regard I would like to thank Alex again for the opportunity, but more so to the fact that it made me come up with 10 good images I would have overlooked had I not been put to the test. I will be uploading the images to the site, but here’s all of them together for your viewing pleasure: