Be yourself

Dalam photography ni, ade certain mende yg aku cube nak capai..
In terms of teknik dan skill antaranye:

1. Aku nak faham sume function kat camera serta kesan2nye

2. Aku nak jadik diri aku sendiri, project pemandangan yg aku rase cantik ke atas
sensor camera aku.

3. Aku nak cube abstractkan pemikiran aku dgn amek pic2 yg mempunyai value dan makna
yg tersendiri, dan dengan itu aku kene la biasekan diri utk amek pic2 yg berlainan
tema.

4. Menguasai skill edit sejauh yg boleh..

No 4 ni ade sesetengah orang berpendapat ianya sesuatu yg "ape barangg..".. AKu pon xtau nape sesetengah org mendiskriminasikan sikit pasal mende nih. Pada aku editing skill adelah satu knowledge gak. Satu KESENIAN.. Even professional photographer pon akan edit pic gak untuk tujuan marketing, commercial dan sebagainye.. Cube kite mempersoalkan balik zaman2 kite tadika dulu. Untuk pendidikan seni, kite belajar melukis dan mewarna.. Kenapa kite nak mewarna? Nape x melukis jek? Salah ke mewarna?
Aku pon berpendapat yg tanpa edit, kite dapat mengekalkan kenaturalan pic yg kite amek tapi xbermakna edit perlu didiskriminasikan.. Aku berani jamin bahawa ramai orang yg xske edit atau anti edit pon kat dalam hati die akan mengakui bahawa kebanyakan pic yg diedit lebih cantik.. Mate dan hati xdapat nak menipu kite melainkan kite nak tipu diri sendiri..

In terms of rohani, of course: mensyukuri ape yg Tuhan dah cipta kat sekeliling aku.

"BE TRUE TO YOURSELF"

What makes a great image? Anything you say it does!

There are no rules. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

When you get good, the only eye that matters is your own. No two eyes see the same. Your vision needs to be true to yourself.

It's OK to solicit comments and suggestions when you're first learning. This helps you master the basic technique. Mastering technique frees you to create. Mastering technique gets it out of the way of your creative process.

Photography is taking an image from your mind and fixing it in tangible form. These images may be real or imagined, and the tangible form is usually a printed photo.

Anything that comes between your imagination and the final result needs to get out of the way. Cameras, lenses, HDR, profiles, focus, sharpness, pixels, etc. are all crap. They have nothing to do with photography. They just get in the way. When you master technique you can see straight from your imagination to the finished work. Then you are free to create great images.

Follow your own imagination and vision to create great images. Show what excites you. Show what consumes you. Show what makes your life worth living. Show what you love. Show what you hate. Show what's important - to you.

Don't follow the crowd and make the same technically perfect, but completely forgettable, images. Show what you care about. Let your work consume you. Let it drive every aspect of what you do. Live for it. Share it. Die for it.

When you die, do you want your kin to be arguing over who has to haul your life's work to the dump, or arguing over who owns the rights to it?

Be bold. Be crazy. Screw what people think. Drill your own hole.

Be great.

Be yourself.

-Taken from Kenrockwell.com-