Fluidr / Fish Eagle with its Catch by Roy Prasad

I have close to 100,000 photos from over the years and vast majority of them were just not processed well. With the tools available today and with my own understanding of post-processing, I realize I need to redo a lot of my photos.

This is an example of one of my reprocessed images from my trip to Kenya in 2016. Hidden in my photo was a much better image which I was able to salvage with a little tweaking of the white balance and sharpening.

It is a daunting task to reprocess thousands of images, so I am also using this as an opportunity to cull my photos and dump mediocre photos that lack any emotional or technical merits.

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