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Menjadi Photographer Professional

Dari orang tua sejak kecil saya sudah dikenalkan dengan kamera professional, karena profesi orang tua adalah photographer (jaman dulu) serta mempunyai studio foto (Lestari Foto) dan lab sendiri.

Masih ingat dahulu untuk photo hitam putih diolah sendiri oleh Bapak (Ayah). Setelah melakukan pengambilan foto di studio, film yang didalam kamera dibuka di ”kamar gelap” karena ruanganya memang gelap sekali dengan ukuran 3 x 3 meter, kemudian di celup-celupkan ke cairan kimia tertentu sehingga akan muncullah gambar di film ”klise” kemudian di gantung/dikeringkan.

Selanjutnya klise tersebut di potong-potong sesuai ukuran dan saatnya akan dicetak ke kertas foto. Dilakukan pertama kali adalah menyalakan lampu minyak petromak (karena jaman itu tahun 1980 s/d 1987 tidak ada listrik), selanjutnya melakukan pemotongan kertas photo (harus diruangan gelap juga) sesuai ukuran, misalnya 3×4, 4×6, dan lain-lain.

Kemudian film (klise) di jepit di depan alat seperti Projector Film, yang mana gambar dari klise (akan muncul di papan display, dimana diletakkan kertas photo tersebut). Semakin lama disinari, maka gambar di kertas akan semakin tajam/gelap.

Setelah disinari kertas di celupkan ke cairan kimia, dan secara perlahan muncullah gambar dalam kertas photo tersebut, kemudian di keringkan dan dipotong-potong dan photo siap dipergunakan.

Aku yakin Bapak menjalankan profesi sebagai photograper dimulai dari hoby dilanjutkan menjadi bisnis, karena bisnis yang berasal dari hoby pastinya dilakukan dengan sepenuh hati dibandingkan bisnis dan bekerja karena terpaksa.

Oh ya sebagai pemula (saat ini) saya sedang mempelajari photograpy di era modern, tentunya sangat berbeda jauh dengan jaman dahulu (untuk tool-nya). Jaman dahulu untuk mendapatkan efek-efek dilakukan dengan manual (filter-filter yang berada di depan lensa) dan di era sekarang dengan teknik dan plug-in dari software pengolah gambar photo dapat dirubah menjadi menjadi apapun.

Ada beberapa tip dan trik dari para master yang saya copy-paste, sebagai dasar untuk menjadi photograper professional dan semoga bermanfaat.

100 Things I’ve Learned About Photography

Since I found photography two and a half years ago I have learned different things which I would like to share with you today. These lessons have made me richer and I hope that you will find them refreshing and inspiring on your journey with the camera, too.


  1. Never do photography to become a rock-star.
  2. Enjoy what you are shooting.
  3. Prepare well for your shooting, realizing that your battery isn’t charge when you’re setting up for that sunrise shoot is too late!
  4. Always take one warm garment more than you actually need with you
  5. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting
  6. Set goals you can achieve
  7. Write tips about photography, because writing is also learning
  8. Never go shooting without a tripod
  9. Be pleased with the little prosperities
  10. Build relationships with potential photo buddies
  11. Watch the place you want to shoot first with your heart then with the camera
  12. Always stay calm
  13. Know that you tend to overestimate yourself
  14. Perspective is the killer
  15. Dedicate yourself to photography, but never browbeat yourself too much
  16. Take part in a photography community
  17. Keep your camera clean
  18. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context
  19. Find your own style of photography
  20. Try to compose more and to hit the shutter less
  21. Seek out and learn to accept critique on your images
  22. Do something different to recover creativity
  23. Get inspiration from the work of other photographers
  24. Criticize honestly but respectfully
  25. Get feedback from your lady
  26. Don’t copy other photographer’s style
  27. Be bold
  28. Take care of the golden ratio
  29. 10mm rocks!
  30. Take selfportraits
  31. Read books about photography
  32. To give a landscapephotograph the extra boost, integrate a person (maybe yourself)
  33. Every shooting situation is different than you expect
  34. Pay attention to s-curves and lines
  35. Always shoot in RAW
  36. Keep your sensor clean, so you can save some work cleaning your image in post production
  37. Discover the things you think are beautiful
  38. It takes time to become a good photographer
  39. The best equipment is that what you have now
  40. You can’t take photographs of everything
  41. Break the rules of photography knowingly, but not your camera
  42. Pay attention to the different way that light falls on different parts of your scene
  43. The eye moves to the point of contrast
  44. Clouds increase the atmosphere of a landscape
  45. Start a photoblog
  46. Accept praise and say “thank you”
  47. ‘Nice Shot’ is not a very useful comment to write
  48. ‘Amazing!’ isn’t useful either. Try to describe specifically what you like or don’t like about an image.
  49. You are not your camera
  50. Ask a question at the end of your comment on a photo to get a ping-pong conversation with the photographer
  51. Do a review of your archives on a regular basis, the longer you photograph – the more diamonds are hidden there
  52. Always clarify what the eyecatcher (focal point) will be in your image
  53. No image is better than a bad one
  54. Everyone has to start little
  55. Your opinion about photography is important!
  56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment
  57. Speak about your experiences with your photo buddies
  58. Limit your photograph to the substance
  59. Participate in Photocontests
  60. Post processing = Optimizing your image to the best result
  61. Shoot exposure latitudes as often as possible
  62. Use photomatix as seldom as possible, HDR’s always have a synthetic flavor
  63. Always remember what brought you to photography
  64. Never shoot a person who doensn’t want to be photographed
  65. Always turn arround, sometimes the better image is behind you
  66. It’s who’s behind the camera, not the camera
  67. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!
  68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work – Do it anyway. When in doubt – always shoot.
  69. Understand and look to your histogramm while shooting. It delivers very important information about your image
  70. Know your camera, because searching the menu button in the night is time you don’t want to waste
  71. Shoot as often as possible
  72. Believe in yourself
  73. Don’t be afraid of getting dirty
  74. Pay attention to qualitiy in your image
  75. Your photographs are a personal map of your psyche
  76. Re-check your ISO-Settings. It’s aweful to detect the wrong settings on your screen.
  77. Be thankful for long and thoughtful comments on your images
  78. Never trust your LCD. Normally it is brighter and sharper as the original image.
  79. Provide for enough disc space, because it’s cheap and you will need it.
  80. Learn to enjoy beautful moments when you don’t have a camera with you.
  81. Always arrive at least half an hour earlier before sunrise / sundown, composing in a hurry is a bad thing.
  82. Try to amplify your mental and physical limits. Takes some extra shots when you think “it’s enough”
  83. Pay attention to structures in the sky and wait until they fit into structures in the foreground
  84. Visit the same place as often as possible. Light never shows the same mountain.
  85. Print your images in big size. You will love it.
  86. Calibrate your monitor. Working with a monitor that is not accurate is like being together with someone you can’t trust. It always ends badly.
  87. Don’t think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it’s worth publishing.
  88. Never address reproaches to yourself. Learn from your mistakes and look forward, not backward.
  89. Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline.
  90. Ask yourself : What do you want to express in your images ?
  91. Always try to think outside the box, collect new ideas about photographs you could do and ask yourself : Why not?
  92. Search for a mentor.
  93. Photography is never a waste of time.
  94. Every community has it’s downsides. Don’t leave it out of an emotional response.
  95. There will always be people who will not like what you are doing.
  96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
  97. A better camera doesn’t guarantee better images.
  98. Always have printing in mind when you postprocess your images.
  99. Photography is fair : You gain publicity with the quality of your images. Unless the images are stolen, there is no way of cheating yourself higher.
  100. Write a 100 things list
Do you have learned something that I didn’t mention ? I would be glad if you let me know it as a comment, so I can learn from you !

Sumber : http://www.digital-photography-school.com/100-things-ive-learned-about-photography

Untuk teman-teman yang punya club photography area Denpasar dan sekitarnya jika ada kegiatan dan informasi club-nya, mohon di share agar bisa bergabung, dan menimba ilmu dari teman-teman semua, karena sayang tinggal di pulau yang indah (Bali) dan terlewat begitu saja. Salam kenal semua.

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