After a tough and rough election process, a President is elected for the 2014 – 2019 term:
Pak Joko Widodo – President
Pak Jusuf Kalla – Vice President
Looking forward to October, the day you will be sworn to office.
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A baby
Still crawling not walking or running
Still eating soft foods
Sleeping, eating and playing
Is how a baby spend time
Words mumbled not understood by adults
Still every baby has their own charm.
[Jakarta, Baby and Batik – 2014]
* Still is photographed using the Fujifilm X Pro-1
This marks the 500th post in the blog. Still a baby as the picture above. This is hope and prayer for the future.
Thank you very much to:
- Those who followed this blog through WordPress reader or mail, or other readers.
- Also for those who are exposed through Facebook Pages, Twitter, Linked-In , Path, Instagram and all other media.
- Or those who visited from my other blogs.
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For those who have liked the posts in the blog I thank you very much for the appreciation.
For those who nominated awards for this blog, thank you very much. But until now I am not able respond in distributing them.
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See you all again and once again thank you for the support.
Post #500 Still A Baby
Display Calibration Using Spyder 4 Elite
All this time I am only using the notebook monitor as it is, meaning that calibration only using the facility provided by the operating system to calibrate the monitor for best use. All could be found in the Control Panel, in the Display or Color Management icons. But for photographs actually it is not sufficient to get the intended actual color, either for printing or for web display. So all of the viewer here have to forgive my posts prior to this if the color of the photos is not correct or not as intended. Either it is the detail, saturation, color and others that relate to it.
Last Sunday I had access to the Spyder 4 Elite display calibration unit and used it to calibrate my notebook’s display. The process is very easy, just install the software provided and follow the step by step instructions from the software. Than the notebook display is fully calibrated and analysed. Since my notebook is not the high end type which is fully adjustable, at least it is still able to be calibrated. Well for those who uses Apple products such as iMac, Mac Book etc, might not have the same problem as Windows based PC’s in color management so the urgency to calibrate is not so much.
The result is striking, at least from the photos in the web from professional photographers which is really looking different now. I hope that my photo processing now will get the actual intended colors, not as previously. Fortunately it is not missing by very much, so most of it are still acceptable.
Here is a preview of the calibration process and tools:
Kalibrasi Monitor
Untuk kebutuhan fotografi kita menginginkan hasil dengan warna yang sesuai dengan saat kita memotret, terutama saat berinteraksi dengan manusia misalnya untuk pembuatan portrait, ataupun liputan event-event. Juga saat memotret produk secara komersial, reproduksi warna yang akurat merupakan syarat utama. Dalam hal ini dibutuhkan sarana kerja yang terkalibrasi dengan baik supaya menghasilkan warna yang akurat dan stabil. Salah satu alat yang perlu untuk dikalibrasi adalah display monitor komputer kita.
Menggunakan Spyder 4 Elite proses kalibrasi sangat mudah, tinggal mengikuti saja langkah-langkah panduan pada piranti lunak yang disertakan.
Untuk detail silahkan klik Data Color Spyder 4 Elite
Making The Jump
Starting new
From idea to execution
Finding ways to make ends meet
Doing the best
Click the darkness to unveil ……..
Mistakes Could Really Be Due To Force Majeur
Last week we had an assignment in Indramayu, a town about 4 hours drive from Jakarta where I live. The schedule is to leave on Friday morning, so we can rest a bit at the afternoon. The next morning is a whole day wedding event starting early in the morning. And the plan is to return on Sunday noon time after a bit sight seeing and have lunch in order for us to reach Jakarta before night.
Monday to Wednesday, we already have another assignment schedule in Jakarta. A corporate job, making portraits of employees of an international market research company.
If all went as planned, the schedule is tiring but manageable and just normal. Also that it is just a normal car ride in a main national road. But a force majeur condition made it a disaster for us and many others.
Continuous heavy rain for several days along the north coast of Java Island, resulting in flood along the main road to Jakarta. Some areas even had about 2 meters of water, making even the trucks could not pass. And it happened on the day we planned to go back to Jakarta.
Then we start to look for alternative road, going up through the mountains avoiding the flood. It was a good plan. And we thought it will add only 2-3 hours of travel.
In the beginning everything seems okay. But after we are already on the mountain road, then we are just stuck there for hours. It seems that all traffic was directed to this road. And resulting a very slow progress for us there, moving just a little each time. And it is for both direction.
In the end it took us 15 hours drive to reach Jakarta and home. An additional 10 hours from the plan. And it means reaching home at 3 am.
Luckily we are able to negotiate a half day rescheduling for the corporate assignment. Which started a bit late as well due to traffic jams in the city due to flood conditions. But as duty calls, we have to perform well no matter what happened.
Inilah Aku 