Canon EF 50mm f/1.8

Finally… Afterr a long.. longg.. longg time thinking about what lens should I buy,, do I really need that lens ans etc.. I decided to buy canon EF 50mm f/1.8 for my EOS 100..

A dilemma.. lol.. If I buy it in amazon,, it will cost more money but I can get that lens in 3-5 days.. If I buy it in Indo,, I’ll get it in a month.. the diff is only about 13 dollars.. so,, I decided to buy in here.. I get warranty anywayy..

That lens recomended by a lot of my friends,, it’s pretty cheap but it’s good…

special thanks to Ricky and Rinza for the testimonials of this lens that help me a lot..
and also to ‘om’ imamm,, thanks for helping me finding the link where to buy this camera the cheapest,, also the refence for each seller/store..
to my brrrooooo,, kyokoo andre,, thanks for the amazonn linkk..!!! funny story is that he was telling me that he wants to buy this lens,, and I was like “Dude,, this is the one that I was talkin about.. The one that I’m thiking to buy..” yeaa.. he was the one that give me amazon link..
to my mom,, who finally agreesss…
also,, thank God I finally made a decision.. haha..

I’m excitedddddddd…..

Memory Card Error…

 just realized that I didn’t write about something bad that my camera and that made me pretty mad.. Beside shopping I was going to have a nice hunting time in the at the flea market.. I’ve brought my camera put in the memory card.. I’ve three crads and that is the only card with noting in it.. The rest has something in it.. anyway.. I took ONe.. againn ONE picture and when I was trying to take another one it said memory card error.. @#$%^*

Man,, I though I was goin’ to have a nice hunting time but it turned out to a bad hunting time with no MMC at all.. ohh geezz,, There were a lot of cool stuff I could’ve take todayy.. I was pretty upset that time.. I tried to make it work by taking it out etc but it didn’t workk..

aniwae,, yeaa.. I dunno if next month I will come to the flea market again.. since it only held once a month and we need to come in the morning,, which is a bit impossible for me to ruin my morning..

Oh well.. I hope that would paid with uhmm maybe another downtown trip..!? orr… man.. did I also tell you about the fireworks on 4th of July yesterdayy??
I could see the fireworks in  front of my house but then there are a lot of trees in my neighboorhood,, and it makes me couldn’t get the whole fireworks.. Especially with my pocket camera.. it was just really hard.. I tried and from hundred and hundred photos that I took last night there only 4 good photos.. Evenn the good one have silhouettes of trees in it..

argghh.. what a sad week..

self portrait..!?

LOL.. I didn’t except the theme for this month is self portrait..
I honestly have a lot of self portrait photos BUT..!! it’s just me nothin’ special.. just a narcism in me :p

So, I decided to brainstorm and I got some idea.. :D

This is one of it.. I love it..

 Funny’O.. yea.. and I was about to submit it,, but tryin’ to see if I ‘ve a better photos.. or,, I have another idea,, I’ll put it in here when I’m done..

A story from that book.. I was about to take an AP Chem class,, it’s a very hard chem class and my friends recomended me to study over the summer,, So I bought the book and one of its was this one.. I love the dummies collection.. yea.. but later I decied to take pyshics honor instead.. so,, I didn’t really use this book that much.. haha.. I still read it anyway..

Photography for life..!!

I’m running for vice president for next year in my photography club next year,, a lot of question was asking why it’s not president?? I think the president needs to be able to speak in English fluently.. Also,, I guess I don’t have that much time next year.. 

I also sign up to be yearbook’s photographer.. which I guess will be hard ‘coz we need to make portofolio and we need to be able to present each photo during interview.. but,, I guess by joining a lot of photography stuffs.. I’m one step closer to be a proffesional photographer..

I want my life to full with my hobby.. in this case photography.. with my lil SD1000 I’ll change my life.. *hahhahahha* and also,, my EOS 100 will help me too..!! oh yea.. I wonder that by the end of next year.. I’ll buy a DSLR camera,, with my own money.. *wohoo* so,, can’t waitt..!! I really need to get a job..

I’ll join all canoners to capture the world..*wushh* hahahhaa.. lame.. lame.. lame… it’s okay.. I’m getting over excited.. I hope I’ll become yearbook photographer,, If I don’t I’ll be so upset.. so,, my next project.. portofolio..!!!!!!!!! I’ll post the link in my blog.. it will be in website *hopefully*

my goal.. photography..

Dah lama gw gak nulis, kangen sama kamar biru gw, kangen sama pepes pedanya nyokap, kangen sama ade gw, kangen sama suara pesawat bokap gw. Gak berasa udah hampir dua taon gw ada di negara asing ini. Gw pengen pulang secara ada 1001 alesan yang bikin gw pengen pulang, tapi hanya ada satu alesan yang bikin gw tetep bertahan sekarang
Sayangnya alesan itu adalah goal hidup gw, satu alesan yang sebernarnya cukup menyiksa gw, tapi membahagiakan seseorang.
Sampe akhirnya, gw mencari hobby baru yang bikin gw betah dsini. Fotografi, yeaa.. Sesuatu yang tadinya pun gak pernah lewat di otak gw. Bahkan sebelumnya gw gak pernah tertarik sama dunia itu.. HIngga tepat setahun lalu, seseorang memperkenalkan gw sama sebuah web yang sekarang familiar dengan ‘FN’ juga teori2 tentang fotografinya yang bikin gw jatuh cinta dengan karyanya dan gak berusaha menutupi,, gw juga jatuh cinta sama fotografer itu . It was last year..
Setelah hari itu gw mulai tau kenapa seoarang fotografer memilih untuk mendedikasikan dirinya dibalik kamera laras panjang mreka Ternyata ada sesuatu yang menarik dari dunia dibalik kamera, sebuah perasan ingin menangkap semua momen hidup. ^ bulan menjadi penikmat poto, membuat gw juga ingin mempunyai karya yang bisa dinikmati orang lain. Gw membeli sebuah pocket kamera yang sekarang menjadi harta gw. SUdah 6 bulan lebih gw bermain2 dengan kamera kecil gw, tapi gw masih merasa poto gw gak pantes di nikmati
Masih banyak yang kurang dari poto2 gw. Fotografi bwt gw sekarang bukan sebuah mimpi, melinkan obsesi. Goal gw dalam 2 taon untuk bisa menghasilkan uang dan bisa bermain2 dengan olah digital. Obsesi itu yang bikin gw mau bertahan.. Gak lama lagi gw bisa kerja part time.. Igw bisa dapet duit untuk beli kamera SLR dan sambil nyari duit,, gw mau belajar potosop.. Jadi by the time gw punya gearnya gw dah tau poto2 gw mw di apain

I dunno it’s just my goal.. Gw tw,, gw punya cara gw sendiri buat bikin nyokap gw tersenyum

The winner of December photo contest (theme: light)

well done…

I wish,, my mom could see it by her self that I won 2 photo contest.. Thx to my Canon SD1000, for a fabulous photos that you got for me.. Thx to my friends who helped me.

Thursday night 1/18 was the last day to submit your photo.. I’m going to submit the silhouette of my friends,, and a glowing star, the last photo I made right before I submitted it.. I ask my friend to play with the lighter stick thingy and I took my tripod and try really hard to get a good picture..

I was thinking not to come to the photo contest, coz I wanna see another sing contest in the quad.. but,, I dunno why my feeling told me to go. So, I did.. I went there and the adviser told me that thy are goin’ to announce the winner..

I waited and waited til they showed all the pictures,, and my star was the winner.. haha.. I was like..!! “wayy to goo.. chell..!!” smilin’ happily..

When they tell us the second winner,, they open my silhouette picture.. I was like.. OMG..OMG.. haha.. I was hella surprise but happy (of course) at the same time..

I am happy coz,, I really have something to tell my mom about my achievements and my passion in photography.. I hope,, when I tell her she will understand that I want to take photography as my minor, not just for fun but because,, I konw what I’m doing, I know what I like to do,, I know where I’m good at..

once again,, Thx to my lovely tiny little pocket camera Canon powershot SD100,, thx to my friends (Lavin and Chris),, thx fopr those who voted for my photos,, thx to the star.. and thx God..!!

here are the pictures.. ^^

Pocket Camera VS SLR Camera

I’ll try to write in my (poor) English.. there might be a few of Indonesian..

A pocket camera is a small camera.. Now there are a lot of it with a nice 2.0″-3.0″ LCD and I dunno a bunch of stuffs in there that can make your photos look nicer..

A SLR camera is a big fancy camera usually a professional photographer would have one.. This type of camera needs more than one lenses depends on what kind of pictures you wanna take e.g macro, InfraRed,, etc..

The price,, obviously the pocket one is wayyy cheaper than the SLR one.. I have a small tiny pocket camera it’s Canon Powershot SD1000.. yes,, I really want to have a SLR one.. I was thinking to buy it with my own money .. anyway,, yeaa.. some people may thought that having a fancier camera or more expensive one can get a better pictures..

That’s what I thought before,, but now it’s different.. I think the quality of the pictures is not because of the Camera.. It doesn’t matter how much does the camera costs,, how fancy it is,, how long is the lenses but I think a good and nice picture can be taken by any camera even pocket it just depend on the people who holds the camera,, who moves around to get a good angle,, who clicks the button and captures the moments..

So,, if you want to buy a camera.. pocket camera is good enough.. Learn the basic of the photography with the small camera and once you know the trick the thingy you will able to buy a nice and fancy camera so by the time you know how to use it you can get a newest one.. It will safe up your money too.. one of my friends said that We want the better camera (read: SLR) is because we want to fulfill our self-esteem.. is that correct, isn’t it? (audiego)” I agree with that.. For example,, if you want to take a picture of a small flower on the field.. the flower is so small and you need to lay on the ground to get a good picture.. if you hold a SLR camera you will look like a great photographer who want to lay on the ground just for a small flower.. but if you hold a pocket camera I think you will look kinda lame.. well,, no offense.. but I feel it..

The pumpkin picture that I took.. I got that with a hard work,, trying to find a nice angle,, the lighting and some people were looking at me.. maybe they thought I was a crazy girl who was taking pictures with a small camera like a fake camera coz my camera is so small.. I don’t really care though,, as long I can get what I think the best..

anyway,, yea.. that’s a short (not really) idea that 2 different camera..

photography… uhhmm..

I have a gallery in Deviantart coba cek ke just4chel.deviantart.com . Dsana u bisa nemuin poto2 ada yang dah di dempul sama potosop ada yang pure asli.. banyakan yang gak di edit2 sieh,, kcuali gw kasi nama sama taon ajeh.. Knapa..?! karena gw masih newbi banget sama sotosop.. Di dukung oleh temen gw si dani yang dah gondok kali ya ngajarin gw sotosop dia pelan2 masih bantuin gw.. Kalo gak gara2 dia,, gw gak akan buka tuh potosop di komputer gw

Jadi,, post gw kali ini dedicated bwt orang2 di dunia nyata maupun maya (internet) yang dah bikin gw mw blajar ttg potografi,, dan juga sotosop.. Mreka adalah.. *drum roll* si bayu a.k.a from_hell.. si menkoholic (dia yang bikin tutor muantebhh abis) si kyoko_now,, ko2 gw yang nun jau di LA,, tentunya Dani_dee sensei gw yang nggak pnah bosen ngajarin gw.. Oh iyaa,, gw lupa (ini gw tulisnya telat banget br inget) si phiendhy yang ngenalin gw ke fotografer.net sebenrnya ityu awal dr sgalanya

Gw mulai demen sama potography sejakkk.. di indo gw demen,, cuma terbatas ajah.. sejak gw pindah ke US kali yaa.. awalnya mah gw hanya bisa mengagumi ajah poto2 yang ada di site fotografer.net blajar dengan membaca komen.. dan mengerti2 apaitu DOF,, ISO,, macro,, etc.. awalnya gw gak tw apa2 tp baca2 artikel2 akhirnya ngerti..

Sampe akhirnya Kmaren ini gw di tawarin nyokap beli kamera.. Gw pengennya beli DSLR/SLR gtu.. sayang apa daya,, gak bisa ngerayu nyokap.. gak dapet,, tp itu salah satu wishlist gw kalo dah kerja nanti,, beli kamera SLR,, tapi sbelomnya gw mesti bisa pake sotosop dolo.. :D Gw beli kamera mungil Canon powershot SD1000.. yang slalu setia nemenin gw ampir tiap hari.. Gw pikir tuh kamera gak akan menghasilkan suata karya yang waahh.. ternyata gw salah besar.. itu kamera kecil2 cabe rawit gtu.. gw cinta kamera mungil gw..

Hampir tiap hari kemanapun gw pergi,, gw bw kamera itu,, knapa..!? karena,, mnurut gw,, u gak tw apa yang akan terjadi next dalam hidup u.. jadi,, satu2nya benda yang bisa nyimpen smua itu ya kamera jd di bw tiap hari,, khan u gak tw kalo ada moment menarik yang menanti u hari itu.. semua yang bisa gw poto,, gw poto,, sampe gw bingung beresin my picture di laptop item gw ini..

Gw lagi pengen mendalami potografi… dan tujuannya,, pengen bisa menguasain sotosop.. dan by the time gw bisa make nya gw dah mampu beli kamera SLR pake duid ndiri.. Smoga cita2 gw ini gak cuma cita2 doank..

Btw,, kalo di atas baca tulisan sotosop,, itu artinya potosop ye,, soalnya gw kadang suka mleset2in gtu :p

ini salah satu poto terbaik yang pnah gw ambil spanjang hidup gw.. dan ini di dempul sotosop.. yang di bantu sama sensei dani.. dr poto ini gw nemu ndiri,, cara nambahin cahaya,, that day I was so happyy.. jdnya mantebh deh,, poto ini juga jd poto dengan point tertinggi di gallery gw di fotografer.net

Strawberry Field Forever (thx juga dani bwt judulnya)

 

NB: potonya kepotong tuh,, kalo mw liat lengkapnya.. just4chel.deviantart.com cya there..