Books change lives

Found something very very interesting while i was reading a book about photography by R.D. Zakia.

Written just like this:

Working together to grow libraries in developing countries
elsevier.com bookaid.org sabre.org

They have also foundation and said that they are humanitarian aid for the mind.
Supercool!

Not every moment can be photographed, that's why we draw, sketch and paint

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant

Drawing and sketching are just also like that...

Remember: the beginning is just capturing the whole circle, sharpening it into triangle, and then star, rough snowflake and finally the completecharacter-superdetail snowflake.

Dont forget all aspects of art composition, including setting out the elements in a painting, choosing a light source, and deciding what to include or exclude in a composition.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty

Unfortunately, not in every location we can bring along our camera.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown

Emotion and originality, two element that give character and make artworks "lebendig"

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

When words and photographs are not enough, I shall draw it down.

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon

That why it calls IMAGE! of course this world also contains images not the truth


Perspective....

See It as a Clock

Visualizing the angles of objects as the hour-hand on a clock really works for me. For instance, a vanishing line is coming up to the horizon line at "four o'clock", or down at "one o'clock". It's then easy to 'see' the angle when I draw the line on my paper/canvas.

—Marion BE

For a strong composition...

you want them to be in quite different amounts, not similar. Try this rule to start: "two thirds, one third, and a little bit." For example, two thirds dark in tone, one third light in tone, and a small area or object that's mid-tone.


Strong composition, strong character, strong impression!

Create a feeling of space and depth with
foreground (entry point, element to make it dramatic),
focal point (the dominant tone and detail) and
background (dont fight to much for attention, lightened the tone down and shading).

Galitz divided the objects in out photograph in to three groups (guess what they are…):

A. Subject – This is the most important element of the photo and it should be clear to the viewer what it is. I have run into many photos that lacked a subject… Repeat after me: A photo without a subject is not a photo. (I hope the message is clear).

B. Predicate – This is a completing or competing element to the subject. We should try to make sure that the predicate doesn’t “steal the show” from the subject, and it should contribute details about the subject to provide a different angle or perspective on the subject.

C. Background – It’s important to remember, the background is just as important as the subject of the photo. It’s true that many people don’t notice what’s behind the subject when they are taking the picture, but the background can take an ordinary photo and make it great. The background should complement the subject while not stealing attention from it.

Using a viewfinder helps you isolate part of a scene, to select the strongest composition for a landscape painting.

"Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul."

Life and arts are the same, they are the matter of composition and perspective.
That's why i love them both!

Perfection is an unrealistic goal, and aiming for it will stop you trying subjects that are 'too difficult' for your present painting skils.

"Painting embraces all the 10 functions of the eye; that is to say, darkness, light, body and color, shape and location, distance and closeness, motion and rest." Da Vinci (one question, why Monalisa hasn't got eyebrows?)

~Na ja, so ist es, the journey of a self-taugh artist, with practice it'll become instinctive~

source 1 sketch
source 2 draw and sketch
source 3 paint
source 4 photography

Environmental Literature

Thanks for my parents, who did everything they could to develop my childhood interest in the natural world into an enduring passion. And now, creative landscape photography become my main interest. It does preserve memories of beautiful world!

Still holding the principes:

creative and artistic, creativity and artist's eye

originality
emotion
dynamic
image rhytmn
intergrity of character
tell a story, WHY must be captured
story that well composed (character of the only subject, theme and relationship)
get the soul
dont forget to develop our unique style
personalize a vision
visual communication

And the rest, just one GOAL: environmental literature

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it (confusius)

Focusing on the FEELINGS for the scene; Isolating the main subject; Concentrate it on a fine composition; and avoid a disappointing result later on. source

Entdeckung

Man entdeckt keine neuen Erdteile, ohne den Mut zu haben, alte Küsten aus den Augen zu verlieren. (André Gide)

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.

Die Antwort bist du selbst!

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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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Karena ilmu adalah makanan

Ilmu adalah makanan (bagi jiwa), maka perhatikanlah dari siapa ilmu bahasa Arab kita peroleh. Pilihlah guru yang lurus akidahnya dan bersih pemahamannya tentang Islam. Sungguh banyak orang yang pandai berbahasa Arab, tetapi kepandaiannya itu justru menyesatkannya semakin jauh dari jalan kebenaran, karena ilmu tersebut diperolehnya dari orang-orang yang kelam pandangannya dan sungguh buruk pemahamannya tentang Islam.

http://studyarabic.blog.ugm.ac.id/
http://badaronline.com/daftar-isi

Zirkonia, CZ, Edelstein, Diamond

Diamond is a crystal of carbon element. Cubic Ziconia is a compound of Ziconium that display similar look and feel, but not exactly, CZ is made to fake a diamond. A simple test will tell between the two. Cultured diamond is NOT fake diamond, it is a man-made real diamond. Not from the ground, but from a lab. Since lab condition can be tightly control, it may be possible that cultured diamonds can be made flawless, unlike mined diamond.

Es sieht in jeder Farbe gut aus, solange es schwarz ist.
(Henry Ford, Automobil-Hersteller)

Wer die Musik nicht liebt, ist kein Mensch; wer die Musik liebt, ist ein halber Mensch; wer die Musik ausübt, ist ein ganzer Mensch. Goethe

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