Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2009

"Ngluku" - Traditional Plowing



"Ngluku" (Jw. = plowing) is an activity of traditional farmers using animals such as buffalo or cows to help them in cultivating their rice-field. In spite of modern era when tractors are common, still we can find such a method in rural villages in Indonesia.

All images in the slideshow are 1200*900 sized.
Originally taken with pocket digital camera: Samsung S750.
Photoshopped.

Downloads:
Ngluku-1
Ngluku-2
Ngluku-3
Ngluku-4
Ngluku-5
Ngluku-6
Flock of Birds

Monday, August 11, 2008

Sailing Boat

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Sailing Boat, originally uploaded by BornJavanese.

Sea has no limit! Maybe you agree with the sentence. People can go anywhere they want to. However, everyone has to accept, that he or she is still in the boat by which they sail over the sea! There are still barriers they should not break. [skd]

Monday, July 21, 2008

What is fire?

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Oxidation-Energy, originally uploaded by BornJavanese.

All peoples in the world come into a crisis: fossil oil, which has been so expensive that many demos spread all over countries. The crisis of energy drives efforts to save the resources as well as to develop innovations for sustainable ones.

This concern about energy wakes me up to explore things that have something to do with energy making. I am not an expert in this field. However, it is very interesting. I started with simple natural phenomena, which shows a simple process of producing energy. My mind turned to fire, which was supposed by ancient cultures to be one of basic elements in this universe. Once I had a question, "What is fire?" Then I try to answer it by my own: fire is a fact of fastened oxidation process! Hahaha... really, I don't know whether it's true or false, but I am sure, that fire is not a-stand-alone element. There are always at least two elements to make fire. One of them is oxygen. Again, maybe I do something haphazardly! Help me to know the valid answer, please...

Anyway, I get some matches and get the room dark to do my simple "energy-project". The result is shown in the picture. I still used Canon PowerShot A400 in macro mode and inactivated flashlight. I just got it sharpened with amount 100, radius 1 and threshold 1. Done! [skd]

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Splashed leaf

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Splashed leaf, originally uploaded by BornJavanese.

A friend has given me a comment about this picture, "Fabulous macro here with Stellar details and Gorgeous color and lighting. Excellent presentation." Another one says, "Nice! This photo caught my eye."

I love simplicity. Through this picture I wanna show about it. Simple is beatiful! Look at this leaf! Usually beautiful are flowers, but leaves? I just made experiments to explore the beauty of leaves that are many in front of my house. They are of common plants easily growing. I get them wet with splashing water when I watered them. Then I looked for one, which was nicely lighten by the morning sunlight. I used Canon PowerShot A400 to take it in macro mode and no flashlight. [skd]

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Little butterfly - Rest for a while

I like this picture. I share this during my progress in enhancing my skill in photo-editing. Not like another pics before, I have edited this cute little butterfly pic with less of manipulation. I just cropped it from the original capture and set the white level to make it brighter. I also set the saturation into +20. To finalize the pic I sharpened it with amount 75%, radius 1 and threshold 1.

Originaly I toke it with Canon PowerShot A400 in macro mode and inactivated flashlight. [skd]

Monday, July 14, 2008

Heap of hope - The trash-picker

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Heap of hope, originally uploaded by BornJavanese.

This is the first picture of mine, which I toke to train my empathy during hunting objects. Photography should raise social concerns on behalf of humanity. When I did take this picture on the spot, my heart, soul and mind were melted! I felt something so disturbing that I had to defeat my ownself to merge with the object before my camera. I thought of nothing else but how to capture the reality behind the man. He was not an "object" anymore! He was a "subject" who had his own life, struggle and compassion.

There is like a motto amongst photograpers: "Seeing is believing!" I found an image of poverty. At least that's my interpretation on the man picking up valuable things from the heap. The poverty associates with hope, which drives the man's survival by doing such a rightfull work. [skd]

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