Friday, February 12, 2010

Christmas at Pangandaran (2009)

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Like most tropical dweller, i always wanted to have a snowy Christmas and doesn't really enjoy too much sun. But instead of snowy, i enjoyed a sunny (but strangely cloudy) Christmas.

I went to Pangandaran with my family, a beautiful beach in southern West Java.
This beach is one of my favorite for it's quite clean
(trash is an issue here in Indonesia), coral free beach , fine sand, tosca-colored water on sunny days and big waves :). It's really nice to just sit in the water, and let the waves breaks at your back.

My body got really tanned from this holiday (2 - 3 shade darker, i think T_T), but not my face.
I wore a broad spectrum sunscreen on my face (thanks to Paula Begoun) :)

Back to my photos, because we had strange weather there, cloudy but sunny, so I made all my photos to B/W.



That's my sister



A life guard doing his job



Really love how the waves roll in and breaks to foam



The kind of shot everybody and their neighbors took at Pangandaran :)



Local fisherman



Picking some souvenir for our friends back in Jakarta



Choosing fresh seafood for our dinner, yum...



The cooks in actions






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my nef confusion...

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So i'm having confusion about how to edit my nef (raw) files.
I'm using Photoshop CS2, it seems that it doesn't support my D5000's NEF.
I don't want to spend more on Capture NX.

After almost a week of browsing forums and downloading various softwares and updates, i've finally download the newest Adobe Camera Raw.
I'm going to try this ACR 5.6 with Photoshop CS3.

Hope it's working.

Wish me luck!

PS: all of these softwares and hardwares thingy got me headache...
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