Pasangan hidup ibarat sebuah sekolah

Bersyukur kita masih mendapatkan sebuah sekolah. Apapun dan bagaimanapun sekolah kita, mencintai adalah keharusannya. Meski tiap diri menginginkan sebuah sekolah "ideal" di mata manusia, yang elit, prestige, unggulan, dsb. itu, tapi tidak semua dari kita bisa mendapatkannya. Seperti juga orangtua kita, kita tidak bisa memilihnya (karena saya percaya jodoh adl. takdir, walaupun ada "usaha" untuk mendapatkan sekolah terbaik tsb).

Sebuah mutiara, dimanapun dia berada tetaplah mutiara. Seorang murid cemerlang, meski bersekolah di sekolah kampung minim fasilitas sarana, dia akan tetap memberikan sesuatu bagi sekolah, lingkungan dan peer groupnya. Tak perlu pindah sekolah, dia masih bisa berkompetisi dan menjadi duta bagi sekolahnya (ingat pula cerita Laskar Pelangi dan Eliana). Dari sekolah kampung yang miskin, murid cerdas justru akan banyak berpikir. Semakin kompleks masalah di "sekolah miskin" tsb. semakin dalam pikiran dan keinginan murid cerdas untuk lebih maju.

Sebuah teori kontraproduktif di sistem pendidikan kita. Begitulah juga dalam berumah tangga.

Saya tidak akan menyinggung tentang sekolah yang "sudah jadi". Sekolah yang sudah pasti akan melahirkan murid-murid hebat karena kehebatan prasarananya. Sudah pasti itu... karena sekolah unggulan memang sudah mendapat input unggulan pula. (Bagi yang berminat mendapat pasangan unggulan, maka jadilah unggulan, dan bila jodoh, maka hidup Anda relatif lebih mudah *smileysenyum*)

Apapun kondisi kita, nasib tidak ditentukan oleh sekolah, melainkan diri kita sendiri. Seperti misalnya murid cemerlang yang "terpaksa" mendapat "sekolah biasa" atau sekolah rata-rata oleh karena jodoh kondisi (misal orangtua yang dinas di kota kecil, di pulau terpencil) jangan menyerah. Ide, pikiran dan karya luar biasa di dunia ini tidak lahir dari tempat mewah tetapi dari keterbatasan.

Di sekolah apapun kita berada, mengembangkan diri dan menciptakan karya adalah kunci suksesnya.

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The Art of Composition

Picture must be alive (dramatic, wow!, fascinating, memorable, out of the ordinary, appealling, compelling not boring, energizing) that why it need (great and artistic) composition.

Composition has its elements! and they must be in balance!

Composition has its principes of popular or fine art!

Composition is the matter of choice to be chosen. It's about selectiveness

Image composition takes time. When the subject matter is chosen, one must still decide how to place it inside the frame and what other elements to include. Usually it takes a lot of time and experimenting to find the best possible composition. As a first rule of thumb one could say: It is often wise to choose one clear subject into the photograph.

Composition is the matter of separation (avoid overlap, kissing)

One way to separate subject and background is the use of complementary colors. Complementary colors are well distinguishable from each other and strengthen each other. Another method to emphasize the subject is to use textures. A subject with complicated texture stands out well from background with simple texture. A subject with simple texture stands out well from background with complicated texture.

Composition is the golden angle, rectangle, triangle, spiral, ratio and rules (Da Vinci called it divine proportion! well placed focal point beyond other focal points

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things with my eyes. Bresson

Composition is the art of level
upward-ground-eye-head-above head level or society level where you stand for, and any other "LEVEL" that exist in this world

Composition is about a vision,
involving people, places, and cultures that teach something about life itself


I left Lhote's studio because I did not want to enter into that systematic spirit. I wanted to be myself. Bresson

Copyrights and patents are "intellectual property", but ideas and concepts belong to everybody.

In photography, visual organization can stem only from a developed instinct.

Book: Photography the Art of Composition
Book: Photographic Eye
Link: Making Great Pictures Life.com
Link: Have you ever seen a beautifully composed photo, painting, or website and wondered if there is any science behind it?
Article: 7 Golden Rules of Creativity

Landscape remains my first love

Think of a landscape photograph as a jigsaw puzzle, with dozens of different pieces demanding your attention. If you arrange all those pieces in the right order you'll end up with an organised, structured image that makes sense and looks good. But if you put them together any old way, the end result will be a muddled mess of shapes, colours and details that's difficult to make sense of.

The trouble is, many photographers don't spend enough time thinking about that composition before firing away, and nine times out of ten the end result is unbalanced and unstimulating.

Often the main subject is too far away and marooned in a sea of empty space, or there are annoying distractions in the frame. Many pictures have no obvious entry point, so the viewer's wanders around aimlessly, and lack any sense of depth or scale so they look as flat as the proverbial pancake.

Painters are one up on photographers when it comes to composing a picture, because if the scene before them isn't ideal they can move elements around on the canvas until it is. We just have to accept what's there and make the best of it.

But most important of all, make it count.

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