The first two pictures must have been posted before on my previous post. It told about how did I accidentally take the picture and re-touched those 2 pictures on Picnik.com . Still, Picnik was in Indonesian (and I was lately aware that Picnik has been acquired with Google, so that might be why Picnik automatically translated into Indonesian).
Before edited on Picnik. Automatically blurred. I didn't set anything. I was using my phone camera, so it must had been just standard camera settings (size 1024x768 px, auto-flash, auto-white balance). I wasn't satisfied with the picture yet so I decided to edit the picture on Picnik.
Yep, looked better than the previous one. I was satisfied enough with the result. Using simple effects (cross process, focal blur, contrast, and additional text on the right-bottom side). I didn't know how could it make the shrubs blurred whereas my face wasn't blurred because I didn't set anything :P a bit surprised, but amazing. Amazing for me as an amateur beginner photographer (I didn't think about professional photography techniques firstly).
Just several days ago, I was attending "Public Speaking" Workshop at Arion Swiss Bel Hotel, Bandung with my brother. Finding a Parlor Grand Piano at the lobby of the hotel, spontaneously we were surprised! So itchy to play some pieces on those black-white keys! But depending on the situation (and that gloomy oldie wrinkled annoying bellboy kept looking cynically at us so made me annoyed and shitty grumbled), we just took a photo of my brother playing that piano.
The original picture. Note the over-blurred areas. The picture had been not rotated yet, you gotta turn your head 90-degree-clockwise to see the picture in normal view. The picture looked so.. Umh, I thought nothing was special, else the blurred-areas. So again, I re-touched the picture on Picnik.
I saw blurred-areas, then thought "Why don't I make bigger blurred-areas if so? Or using focal blur, I want to focus it on koko's (brother) face". Focal focus point, cross process, focal BW settings, and additional text on left-bottom side. Tadaa! Actually, I was bending on my knee when I took the picture. *Sighs* extreme angle positioning to capture great picture from amazing angles. I didn't want to take pictures in ordinary ways (basically landscape and irrational focus point). I also tried to sharpen the face area. And finally, the result was.. yeah simply gorgeous :P
Gonna take other pictures, soon :)
