waiting for a "good morning"

It was Sunday, 07.00 clock in the morning, the weather was not quite friendly, that semi-grey clouds intend to hide the sun, but for Jonah, well he's just your average young man with good attitude and not that-good looking guy :), and for him it's just another ordinary day, he's been in a "crush-state" with this girl, whose he just recently met, oh forgot to tell, Jonah is photographer, and this girl was once his model.

Tick tock tick tock! the clock's ticking, it's 07.10, already past ten, and Jonah still looking at his phone, why she didn't text me? or whatssap me? was it something wrong? she's always says good morning at 07.00 o'clock with a smiley face to end it, every single day, but today just an empty screen with her name on top of the contact screen.

Jonah stood up, went into the kitchen, poured his glass with hot water and put a tea in it. The phone still in silent, and it's already 07.20, Jonah's mind wandering wildly as he thought about 2 nights before, they had a fight about their relationship, but he thought that was clear, so why she hasn't said good morning? was it something bad happen to her, no! don't think like that, said Jonah's heart.

it's 07.30 , and Jonah's still hold his cup , looking at the phone, suddenly the phone's rang, beep!beeeppp! beeep!, finally, a" good morning" he's been waiting for half an hour, he grabbed his phone with a smile on his face and open the message.

it said "hi, Jonah, sorry this isn't a good morning, this is a good bye, we couldn't be together, and i might be a little harsh, but you're not worthy of me, good bye - Cecilia"

-the end-

The Knight who was blinded by the light

The Knight was critically injured, and he's trying to repair his armor piece by piece. Meanwhile, the fierce Red Dragon whose breath fire still circling above dark grey sky, waiting for the Knight to come out from his hideout beneath that muddy cave.

As the thunder rumbling, the Knight wiped out the blood stain from his shield, it wasn't the dragon's, it was his, and slowly his mind wandering as he remembered sketchy, the grey haired witch said ."stab the dragon in the HEART, that's the only way to save The Princess", yes, stab that hideous creature in the heart and the she'll be safe.

After a while, the armor looked pretty intact, but the injured cause by dragon's tail was more severe and almost cut the Knight's hand in two, He said, it was nothing, i still can lift this heavy sword with my hand, i have to save the princess, after battling against the agonizing pain, the Knight stood up, put on his great helm, and walked out.

after he had taken 10 steps the dragon suddenly appeared and breath is hellish fire from his mouth, the Knight surprised by that sudden attack, and he wasn't ready, his shield melted like butter and fire burnt his right hand, The knight thought, this is now or never, and he made his final blow using his severe injured hand and stab the Red Dragon directly to the heart, it takes only one final blow, and the Red Dragon meets his end.

there was a smirk from the Knight face, and He thought, finally you died in my hand, but there was something  like a very bright light came out from the Red Dragon's body, and after that blinded bright light disappeared, the Knight looked shockingly surprised and couldn't believe his eyes, The princess that he was supposed to save was the Red Dragon instead, within her final breathe, the Princess said, "thank you for making me human again"

-the end-

cerita diatas hanyalah fiksi karangan otak gw, gw pengen banget bikin short movie, entah itu animasi, atau stop motion, atau pun live action movie, dan inilah salah satu cerita yg pengen gw buat, Pray for me guys i hope i can make this happen :)

Sekolah Fotografi

Sedikit berbagi setelah di pagi hari denger yang ga enak2, postingan ini tentang apa yg gw mau di masa depan, bukan galauan dan juga harapan-harapan kosong kayak pepes ikan yg di buka isinya cuman tulangnya doang :), so mari kita mulai hap hap hap

Sewaktu kecil, kalo gw ditanya  udah gede mo jadi apa gw jawab dengan lantang STUNTMAN!!, yeahh Stuntman, mungkin karna dari kecil di cekokin ntn film bioskop dari umur 4 taon ama Bokap and nyokap yg kebetulan movie addict juga (sekarang gw tau itu turunan :p), gw inget film pertama gw adalah THE TERMINATOR, yg di bintangin oleh om Arnold Schwarzenegger, dan gw ampe celangap :O ntn tuh film, sampai inget di ceritain nyokap, dalam bioskop teriak "weii, penjahatnya di belakang kamuu tuh" dan alhasil satu bioskop ngakak guling2 :) *namanya juga anak kecil, sepulang ntn si nyokap cerita kalo si Jagoannya itu cmn akting biasa yg jago adalah STUNTMAN nya, dan gw sampe wowwww :), nah sejak saat ini gw mau jadi STUNTMAN.

Waktu berlalu dan gw makin gede, walaupun masih suka ntn cita2nya yg STUNTMAN sudah mulai dilupakan, secara kita tinggal di Indonesia, yg filmnya aja masih DKI WARKOP yg ga pake eksyen2an, mulailah gw mikir que sera sera, what ever will be.will be :), SMP, SMA ampe ngampus ga ke pikiran mo jadi apa, walau masuk IT dan banyak bilang jadi PROGRAMMER aja duitnya banyak, (yakaleee gw ga bisa ngoding cuiii), lulus aja kerjanya jadi designer t-shirt :) dan akhirnya berkutat di design walau design gw ancurr lebur, Pada akhirnya gw ketemu tmen yg ngajakin joinan jadi asisten foto doi, doi jagonya bukan kepalang dan gw banyak belajar dari dia, sampai kenapa bisa motret sekarang karena doi, *cheers Mate!!

Sejak saat itu cita2 gw jadi fotografer, walau masi nubie nih :p, akhirnya dengan seiring waktu, gw pengen membagi ilmu yg gw punya di bidang foto, sama seperti temen gw yg dengan suka rela sharing ilmunya dia, sampai gw bisa motret, maka cita2 gw sekarang yg termulia adalah pengen punya SEKOLAH FOTOGRAFI, jadi mulai saat ini di BLOG ini gw akan share semua aktivitas motret gw, mau yg bugil, pake baju setengah, 3/4 , komplit sampai apapun, karna gw tau SHARING is BEAUTIFUL, and hopefully gw bisa buka SEKOLAH FOTOGRAFI gw sendiri, dan bahagiain orang2 tercinta gw, especially my future wife, whoever that be!

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Imagination and a little bit of skill

About a month or two, my friends and i were making a photo shoot with ARMY or AirSoft theme, well, this kind of photo shoot the kind that i was dying to make, so i was able to get in touch with Mr. Ryan Widaya and Mr. Danny Wilson P, through my friend Mr. Yohanes Liverto, so it's began

The reason i made this photo shoot, was i want a portfolio that in some way would kickass, and it worked out well. The title for this Post is Imagination and a little bit of skill , why i choose that title, because these pictures were already through Image manipulation processes, that required alot of Imagination to get these done :).

One of the day, Mr Ryan Widaya asked me to tutor him, and I said, if you see one of the picture, what would you imagine to tell the story, not what tools do you want to use or color editing or even do you want to use photoshop or lightroom or whatever software requires :)

Last words, live your life with full of imaginations or some might call it dreams, you'll feel more alive if you have those :)

and these are some of the "Before-after" samples, all the pictures below is edited using Photoshop CS 5 and adobe lightroom 3.6

The talents : Mr. Ryan widaya and Danny wilson P
Assistant : Mr. Yohanes Liverto

The Story of this picture was i want to make it look like "bad boys"
style only with mercenaries style :)

THE LAST STAND

For this picture story inspired from Saving Private Ryan (what a coincidence "the name")
the scene where Tom hanks shot the tank only with his handgun almost at the end
of the movie.

ALLEY OF DEATH

For this picture story inspired from The Raid movie poster
the pose where the hero look from behind totally awesome

THE INTERROGATION

why interrogation, well i always love interrogation scene in every kind of
movies, so i made my own version of extreme interrogation, my personal favorite
is from Body of Lies, where Leo Dicaprio get interrogated by the terrorist and his
fingers were hammered down :)

THE LAST BATTLE

this for the final scene where the hero walkaway from the battle field, whether
win or lose battle it doesn't matter

Sharing is beautiful

Sharing, is a word that has a deep meaning, it means giving something to someone or everyone without hoping any kind of reward, so, in this post, i want to share my little knowledge in photography,

A while ago, Clownfish (this is the name of my little company), held a photoshoot for a lovely young
girl named Audrey Katherine, and she wanna be shoot as Snow White, that little princess in one of the disney's tales which have poisonous apple, ugly witch, and 7 dwarves :).

and we would like to share this Lighting Diagram Setup from several shoots that we take, Enjoy :)
and we hope in the future our knowledge can help you guys, who want to a photographer

Lighting Setup 01

 Lighting Setup 02

Lighting Setup 03

Model       Audrey Katherine
Assistant   Yohanes Liverto
Venue       Lomoto Photographer Playground

Enjoy, people :)