light is the key

I’m in the midst of an art and commercial, I am trying to push myself every day to do things through the viewfinder and Photoshop or Lightroom. My work is centered on art and realism in portraiture, every each of the forms of the memories is intensely expressive, and I believe the expression is just like painting, how you handle your strength of every touch of the brushes just like how we deal with the light in our studio. All in our hands, whether you are fully trained by the skilled mentor or just picking up your lighting knowledge from here and there. Believe me, the light is just like a magic as you never get to know more unless you are fully committed to it, every photographers have their own ways to express their style in their work, but sad to say, I didn't notice much on the skill of the basics of photography fundamental or light shaping lately through internet or physically, most of the work flooded in the web are fully made up and manipulated with post-production, it is a way out of the basic of photography and fundamental philosophy or spirits. Of course, there is no right or wrong. Anyway, photoshop is not a crime, is the revolution of technology, giving us the convenient for post production and beautifullised of the unbeautiful input, like what we are doing in the dark room in the past and the good old days, in the good old days, the photographer carefully plans each scene in advance, handling all of the props, clothes, and makeup by himself. Making use of only source, position of light, they shoot with a medium format film camera, the reason for being precise is because every frame count, there will be no turning back after the exposure, you will never know until the negative or positive is developed. Now is the era that changed the whole mentality and habitation, no more light metering can be found in the young generation, ISO is no longer important as digital SLR now are equipped with really high sensimetory in the box, aperture is just for you to shoot more in bokeh or less, it has lost its beautiful in the form of physical memory in the arts by viewfinder and the effort that every artist has poured in. Of cause armed with photoshop skilled, most of people can against minimal backgrounds, incorporating abstract and surreal elements for any composition of the fantasy and leave people with their question and asking " how do you do that?, Does it really important? Ask yourself, why do you choose to become a photographer, is because you are enjoying the "LIKE" on the social media or just would like to becoming a digital artist by post production. Do you really enjoy the passion of taking part of history through the viewfinder? Every frame counts and mean important to every photographer, whether you are enjoying of framing the landscaping or portraiture, the basic rules is there, live it with your true passion and learnt to use your third eye to capture the world that others don't see. I started my journey, because I wanted to make something out of my day, and also to pursue my passion. I wanted to learn, to discover the world by viewfinder and tell stories through a physical form. The photo above is using a high key light by bouncing back from the wall and reflected back into the subject. The ISO uses by minimizing exposure like 50 or 100 in order to keep the finest detail of the color separation and enlarging. The images above is using the contrast of the high key, the low key keeps the definition of the shading of our shape and more in the reality of our perspective. Light always lighting up what we keen to know and the shadow always create the fantasy of our imagination. images shot by hasselblad H1 with imacon 16mp digital back wtih zeiss 80mm F8 1/8