Photography is one of the essential parts of our life where we use it for various reasons. Most of the time, people tend to take pictures to save moments. When we are with our family, friends, colleagues, we tend to take lots of pictures with the people. Also, when we are traveling, photography is the most important part so that we can upload on our SNS or look back in the future to reminisce about the memories. These are just one minor part of the significance of photography.

During my free time, I enjoy watching Netflix shows. Lots of shows on Netflix which are related to the investigation, crimes, and mysteries, uses photography to solve the problems. A very tiny part of the picture tends to give out the highlight evidence of the incident. I also enjoy going to galleries and museums with my friends. I like to explore the field of Art through these experiences. I usually with friends who are majored in art and design or someone interested in photography. Their keen sight of artworks helps me understand deeper and view from the different perspectives that I missed. While I was in galleries, I realized how 1 single picture can have multiple explanations and could be interpreted in different ways. I think this is one of the intriguing facts about art. In education, visual aids play a huge role to support the understanding of students. It could be an illustration of mechanisms, interpretation of the situation, or even diagrams to show the correlations. Thinking back to my past, I had some photographic memory where I can recall the topic based on the order of the textbook, picture, diagrams, and tables given. Therefore for those students who have a similar property with me or even for the students who do not, pictures were, is, and will be always a big part of education.

I always had a small passion for art however due to the recommendation of parents and teachers, I could not pursue it but to move with Biology. My university, which was strict with the course choice, I was not able to take classes that are not related to my major. However, during my exchange student semester, I enrolled in “Introduction to drawing.” Although this was 4 hours course from 8 am to 12 noon, 3 times a week, I never regret taking this class. This was one of the most valuable, enjoyable, and interesting classes through my entire undergraduate courses. I learned how to hold pencils, to draw objects, fruits, I also learned charcoal drawing. Most importantly, students can pay attention and pull out their best performance if they do what they truly enjoy. I also wanted to take photography class but I was in that exchange school only for 1 semester so I could not. So I always had a thirst for photography in me.

Because I started using Social Networks pretty early (about 6 or 7 years old), SNS was always part of my life. In my high school and early undergraduate school, I believe I was quite obsessed with them. I opened Facebook and Instagram more than 10 times a day, keep swiping to see what are my friends doing at the moment. It reached the part where I felt anxious if I don’t post anything for 2 days. It began by simply just sharing what I do but later, I felt pressured to share a picture with good angles and write a catchy caption to interest others. Of course, it was like a “mandatory task” to write more than 10 hashtags. As time goes by, I reduced my time using SNS and posted lesser pictures. On the other hand, my interest in finding good angles for the photos and catching good lighting is still intriguing to me.

I recently received this camera from my dad which gave me a great opportunity to take lots of pictures.

I usually took pictures with my phone but having a camera will be a new experience. To get friendly with my new camera, I watched various videos on YouTube.

I took some notes while watching the videos. I still need some time to figure out and fully understand this “photography jargon” but it was a great first step to watch what experts have shared and get advice.

@School of Photography said

“Your first 10,000 shots are the worst, Learning is hard, learning anything is hard and photography is no different.”
This advice encouraged me to approach photography easily.

Can’t wait to take more pictures!!