Indonesia's High School Graduation

this year is a big one for me, because this is my last year in high school, or in another word, i graduate this year. and yes, i graduated. after months of hard study and weeks of hard waiting, me and all my friends in my regency is declared graduate and so we do what we always want to do in our graduation day; write of and paint our school uniform.

this have been a culture in Indonesia for last few year. in their graduation day, the graduated student will write and sign and and paint their uniform as an expression of happiness and freedom, as you can see in my shot here. they will also do convoy around the city to show that they have graduated and they are free. of course, the convoy is not really well manage, and not safety at all. the sign culture is also controversial since most of the people think it's a bad and barbarian habit. so most of the provincial government forbid the student to do it. some police department will give thicket to every student convoy; some other will give thicket to convoy that seems to be dangerous. some provincial government told student to use traditional uniform in graduation day, as my government do; some other school do online announcement and forbid their student to go to school to prevent convoy and uniform signing. but since this is a "one in a life time" moment, do we just want to obey them?

Coin Refection; abstraction of emotion

as i told you in the last post, the next will be about coin. yes, all of this picture is a photograph of coin, reflected. the idea that lead me to these picture come from a funny but very useful video of DigitalRev TV that told us how to do high speed photograph, and they use an air soft AK-47 in this case. i mean it. this is the video if you want to see it.

the spirit of this photograph for me is, abstraction of emotion. by dropping all that coin from the air and take the picture in the moment they rebound, i try to take abstract shape they created together, and even beyond that, i fell some kind of freedom and liberty feeling after seeing this picture. i hope you do so :)
 

i take this picture on a very sunny shiny Indonesia's hot afternoon, on my opened (none wall) part of my Balinese house, without any backdrop. so i must do some trick to make it black, with flash.
here is the trick: