I’ve probably visited the Philippines more often than any other country (other than Malaysia in recent years). And all of my trips to the Philippines took place in the days when I was NOT shooting video. Instead, I took pictures as I walked around.
The vast majority of the photographs in this slide show were taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 micro-four thirds camera. And, for some reason, I shot them all in a 4:3 aspect ratio. I think I did that because the sensor in this Olympus camera had a 4:3 shape, and using this aspect ratio utilized the entire sensor. And then I could crop in to 16:9 or 2:3 later on if I wished to.
But for this photo montage, I didn’t bother to resize them. I also didn’t do any color correction or editing of any kind. I never bother with anything like that since these photos were taken just for my own enjoyment and memories. I simply save the photo as it was taken at the time.
There are nearly 800 photos in this video. And they are all pictures of people. I have many more photos from the Philippines in my “archives”, but they are of scenery and objects. For this photo montage video, I included only pictures that I took of people in various settings. The majority of them were taken in and around the city of Tacloban both before and after the destruction of Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013.
Unfortunately, the photos themselves get degraded in terms of sharpness and color at every stage. They are degraded when I add them to a video project and then export the video and then they are degraded again by YouTube compression. So, to my eyes, they don’t look nearly as good as the originals do on my laptop. But I don’t know how to avoid that.