Laki |Laxter| Gushary

Here are some B.T.S. shots taken by sir Hansel Mario at 10 Studio during the shoot for Interview section of iCreate Indonesia magz. Got the chance to shoot with actress Rahayu Saraswati, she's a natural in acting out the concept :) We had a wonderful team to work with.


It was much fun on set, it's good to be

Free spirited (or "on garden leave") Nez Dn, A.K.A ms. complaint

Howdy net lurkers..
Well.. we all know how much we hate it when we can't express our thoughts in words, illustrations or whatever else that works for us. A writer's block so to say, or temporary brain dead for us who are in the creative industry.

Some times ago a close friend of mine, Nez (which happens to be a writer!) asked me a favor to shoot her (no.., not in that violent manner xp ). So we finally managed to arrange one! After a brief but tense discussion, we wound up with a shoot around the theme of hippies and throw a pen and a notebook to the act while at it. The hippies theme somewhat describes

Went to Sigma's workshop last Sunday. Man, have I not been attending one of these things for the few past years. As usual, it was Sir Hansel Mario who invited me to this workshop. So I figured it should be a fun Sunday morning activity kind of thing.. then the twist begins..


It was around 10 am and we were greeted by minions of camera wielding warriors of some 140 strong, lurking around an old dutch cemetery! LOL.. They already started taking pictures when we got there. 6 models provided for that day and each model was being framed by around 20-ish photographers (or even more). Taken by the similar angles and of the same poses! A reminder just struck me about this type of situation is that kept me from going to such workshops. I personally would prefer a much smaller, more intense and personal workshop. Say.. for a party of 20 max? even the less the better. Ya, well here's some shots taken.

Seriously.. did anyone succeeded in having similar pictures? Seeing this just instantly discourage me to shoot from the so called "best angle"

 So what I ended up doing was to shoot from a spot where everyone wasn't shooting from. It turned out to be a good exercise for the eye to look at things from the "other side of the moon". So here's some straight out of the camera jpg's cropped afterward.

Trying to get a different mood to it, playing around with camera settings

Darker mood

Lighter mood

Sir HM & Ndoy

My latest project is finally up! This one is called "Ocean of Sorrow" series. Inspired by the lyrics from Opeth of course.

So, yes.. Let me introduce my very reliable photo assistant goes by the name of Hansel Mario Widjaja. The guy recently had his photograph exhibited for a program promoting the city of Jakarta called "Bingkai Jakarta" or Framing Jakarta in English. He's among the 50 lucky talented people who gets their photo exhibited on that event.. (Bravo..). Here's some pics I took at the exhibition.