Modifikasi.com Photography Comunity
From Mod Mania
by Jason Alvin s3245464
www.modifikasi.com Photography Club
Background of www.modifikasi.com
Modifikasi is Indonesian word of modification. It is one of the largest Indonesian car modification forums with 80,294 members on it. This forum also has 87 sponsors. The sponsors itself can sell a lot of thing in this website as the advantage of being a sponsor. This forum founded by Tommy in year 2000. Tommy becomes the admin and the leader of this forum who have the right of this forum. This website also have more then 20 moderators who help the admin to control the forum and check the member who brakes the rules in modifikasi.com. Starts from year 2008, people call this forum as modcom stand from (mod) ifikasi. (com). Modcom was created to gathering the automotive freak in Indonesia. This website also created for social purpose, they also make sub forum about daily life and hobbies like photography.
About Photography
Photography is a recording process of making a still or moving picture by radiation in photographic film or Electronic sensor (digital imaging). Photography words come from Greek, photos means light and graphe mean drawing. So photography is drawing with light because light is the source of the photos. Without the light there will be no photos that can be captured.
Here is how SLR (single lens reflex) camera taking a photo:
The image show the detail inside a SLR camera, Single Lens Reflex camera is different with other pocket camera because we see what will the camera shot through the viewfinder. The light that come through the lens will reflected by the mirror the to the pentaprism so we can see through the viewfinder. On the other hand, when we press the shutter button, the mirror will flip up and the shutter will open so the light will come to the film or electronic sensor(for digital SLR) that will produce the photo.
Background of Modcom Photography Club
www.modifikasi.com Photography Club is an Indonesian community of people who likes photography that created in one of the largest Indonesian car modification forum. This photography club was found 19th June 2007 at 03:47AM by one of the modifikasi.com member, he’s user name in this forum is tUkanGtAmbELban (in English we called it the tyre man). This forum was created base on his friend idea Triplelicious(member of the forum). This community was created due to the popularity of SLR camera on that time in Indonesia.
Here is the 1st photo that was posted on that forum by tUkanGtAmbELban
This photo was taken by canon EOS 300D with canon ef-s 18-55mm f3,5-5,6 kit lens.
This forum title is “Photography,, Share your snapshots”. At the beginning, most of the photos that were taken by the members are photos of landscape or portrait of models. After a year that this community was founded, most of the members were posted photos of cars due to many member started to like automotive photography. At the moment Nyam (member and moderator of this forum) become the head of this photography community. He overtook this forum because the founder was out from this forum due to some reason. Nyam or William (his real name) is one of the famous Indonesian automotive photographer. Nyam is famous with his HDR and RIG photography
Here is some example of his photos:
The purpose Modcom Photography Club
This community was created for photo-sharing purpose. In this community, they share their photos to get feedback and comment of their photos. In this community they also can share more information about cameras and photography. For example, they share information about new camera gear that just came out or released. They also make a comparison between few camera to give more idea and suggestions for new member who wants to buy a new camera. Not only camera, they also share information about lenses that they use and gave comment about the lenses that they have. Furthermore, photoshop also have discussed in this community. Some of the member also gave a bit tutorial about Photoshop and other software like Photomatix HDR. Those 2 programs are the most used software in photography.
Activities
Sometime, this photography community likes to do a gathering together with other member that live in the same city to do photo shots together. This gathering help them to know each other more in person and make everyone get closer to each other.
My Experience
Since late 2009 I started to join this community, I started to share my photo in this community forum. I started to learn and improve from the comment and feedback that I receive from the other member. Before I joined this community I felt really shy to show my photo work because most of the member have really good photos. Then I started to realize that we learned from our mistake and that’s nothing wrong with trying to show our work to get feed back. The 1st photo that I posted in this forum is a photo of tram restaurant that I want to use for my project in foundation.
The photo above is the edited version after I got the feedback from other member, which is to increase the brightest and the contrast a little bit. Until now, I learned a lot from this photography club, I have improved my photography skills (especially in automotive photography) from their suggestion and information about photography technique.
Here is some of my photo that I posted in the forum:
In conclusion, this community was created to share photos of Modcom member and as a community where they can share their idea, comments, or information to every photographer in this community. All members that joined this community want to share the work to improve their skills. Furthermore, base on my personal experience, I improve my photography skills a lot since I joined this community. It helps to motivate us to improve and to catch up with other member improvement. And lastly, this community keeps growing in the number of the member and also the number of photos that have been shared.
