During the time I was taking this picture, I remember wanting to capture the prodigiousness of the statues as they were definitely taller than an average person's height, but not so tall enough that I angled my camera in such a way to make them look tall enough as one would envision a "tall statue." Speaking of editing, I have mentioned earlier that VSCO was the main editing app IG users worked with back then. I remember applying the A6 lightroom preset of VSCO--which is more a mid to high contrast with warm, woody undertone filter. I also remembered that I used to adjust the sharpness of the photos midway, lessening the saturation, and dialing up the fade--this routine almost applies to every post on my feed to achieve the consistent warm-and-brown aesthetic I was going for.  So the preset was definitely not a one-size-fits-all, where I still need to tweak most of the specific dials since not every photo is gonna turn out differently with the same filter. 

But for the second time, however, was just during 2023, when my mother wanted me to take a break from urban life and rest from academics--which the latter did not happen since I had no choice but to bring my laptop since the term was still ongoing. Moving on, our area was located around very tall trees and farm animals which made the scenery quite peaceful and quite the provincial life one would expect. They also had house dogs, and one of them was named Brownie.  He was one of the cutest bunch as you would never not catch him smiling. Since I wanted to take memorabilia of this cutie pie, the photo above was the best way to capture his joy, executing the shot with Brownie as the primary subject. I am happy because I was able to achieve and capture with a shallow depth of field, allowing the background to be slightly blurred out to focus on Brownie. Other than that, with my main shot doing the work, I didn't do any more tweaking in the photo but added a slightly dramatic, grungy filter to add the feel of nostalgia as the main vibes I was going for. If  I were to take the photo again, I would've positioned the subject to be more on the center frame, and taken consideration of my background--like the feet in the picture. I would've said that the person behind adds to a more warm and casual take on the photo, but I figure that this would only apply if the photo intended to showcase the province life showing the blurred yet happy faces of the people. But in this case, it was only Brownie. 

For this photograph, I wanted a silhouette shot so I opted to pre-adjust the exposure by tapping the plants and lowering the slider and see how low-exposed it could get but just enough for a perfect complement to the brightness of the sky. For the filter, I just added a dramatic filter, literally the name of the filter in the Photo editor, the same as I placed on Brownie. I also adjusted the temperature slider to make it a bit on the cooler spectrum since my objective for this picture was to have a cool and breezy night where viewers can imagine the silhouette of plants and leaves just swaying with the cool breeze of the anticipated night. Most definitely, we felt that breeze when the sun fell but did feel the heat as we go down and outside from Cloud 9. If you have been here, you know that one foot outside is already a road full of fast-paced wheels. So definitely, the smoke and pollution was not the best experience.  Personally, I already like how the photo turned out.