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Reflecting on my Photo Techniques

I am back from the China trip, and I took along my K7, Pentax 40mm f2.8, 100mm and Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6. I brought back a set of photographs. Am I satisfied with them? If yes, why, and if no, why as well? This is the start of looking backward to prepare forward. Let me start by asking myself, which photograph do I like the best that could be posted for critique at Clubsnap? There are also casual social photo which any pns could have done them. There is no need for an expensive DSLR for this purpose. There are shots which were taken in the car, as we will not stop just to take pictures. There are shots taken which were not composed properly, as they needed to be done before the people react to being photographed. Then there are the composed shots where time was given to figure out the best shot. I will like to summarize the shooting situations as the following: (1) Impromptu, (2) Intentional, (3) Interesting, (4) Memory. Impromptu is when you just want to shoot away and hoping that some