How to take silhouette pictures (Anyer beach)

I just had a holiday at Anyer beach with my family and took some silhouette pictures. When I showed them to my sister, she asked me how to do it. So these are a few tips on how to take silhouette pictures:

1.       Make sure there’s a backlight or in other words: the main source of light should be coming from the back of the object or in front of you. So that means if you are in a beach and shooting in the morning, you should face east where the sun is in front of you. And vice versa if it’s in the afternoon.
2. Expose for the bright sky not for the object. If you expose for the object (meaning: you put the focus point on the object), the camera will compensate for the dark object and make it brighter not darker, which the whole point of silhouette is all about. If the camera fails to focus because the sky is low contrast, you can focus on the spot between the sky and the object.
3. Because the object is in dark, as in silhouette, it has to be in a recognizable form or shape. So if the objects are a few people (doing whatever they’re doing), make sure that they are not too close to one another that it’s so hard to identify what they are. Other wise, they will look just like some black blots.
4. After you push the shutter button halfway to lock the focus, you can recompose the picture, just don’t release your finger on the shutter button yet. Then after you’re satisfied with the picture you see on the view finder, you can press the shutter button completely to take the picture.

Bonus tip: you can add a ‘starburst’ sun behind the object by using a high-number aperture (e.g.: F/22).

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Bended

Reflective

Jump!

Meditating

Playful

What's that?

Starburst

Food Photography Trip: Korean Cuisine (Bibimbap, kimchi, cold noodle)

Before I went to Korea, I only knew 1 Korean food: Kimchi. In fact, Kimchi in Korea is just a free small side dish every time you order food in a restaurant. Although I don’t like the smell and the taste of kimchi (too sour), there’re still other kinds of Korean food that I like, for example: bibimbap and Korean instant noodle, but not cold noodle. I had an unfortunate experience of ordering cold noodle and still regret it for the rest of my life, uughh. When I ordered it, I thought it would be nice to have something cold on a hot day. However, I was surprised when it came with scissors. Apparently, you have to cut the noodle with scissors since it's too hard for a plain-normal-looking fork. Don't ask me about its taste, I'm (or my tongue is, to be exact) still trying to forget it. Lesson learned: "cold" is best associated with drinks, not food.

If pork is “haram’ for you, be sure to ask before you order (there’s this sausage-like food in which rice is mixed with pork blood)

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Bibimbap

chili pickle

This is how scissors come to handy 

rice mixed with pork blood

Before you eat bibimbap, mix them while it's hot

The infamous cold noodle *greenish face*

Kimchi

Korean instant noodle

Korean sushi?

Street Photography: Sleeping Soundly (Kota Tua, Jakarta)

It’s a hot, tiring day for a cat, man and kid.

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Square Format Photos

I just read Andrew S. Gibson’s ebook, The Creative Image, and in 1 part of the book he talks about square photos. I quote from him about the square format: “The square format suits the minimalist approach…” Feeling intrigued, I cropped in Photoshop 3 photos that I took last Friday to make them square. These are the results. (And now my camera at the moment has been set to 1:1 ratio) 

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Portrait Photography: Om Andreas

My father is almost 80 years old. Nobody knows for sure how old he is exactly, since he was born in a small, remote (at that time) village in Flores Island and documented a birth day was not something that they knew of. However, we always celebrate his birthday on May1, the May Day J

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test ebook