AKTIVISTAS DI KAWASAN KOTA LAMA SEMARANG SEBAGAI SUBJEK BERKARYA SENI FOTOGRAFI HUMAN INTEREST

Abstract

The Old Town area of Semarang (Central Java) is well regarded as one of the heritage assets in Indonesia and is a Dutch heritage known as Little Netherland by the general public. Now the old city has been restored and becomes a bustling tourism place, many people are active there. Therefore, the author wants to create a human interest photography work in the concept of black and white works to express and elevate the human values of human activities in the old city area apart from the tourism side. The activities that occur are divided into seven groups including trading activities, traveling or tourists, rickshaw riders, cycling, taking shelter, waiting for buyers, and scavengers. The author uses a Canon 60D DSLR camera with a Canon fixed 50mm f 1.8 lens and an 18 – 55mm lens and natural light from the sun and takes advantage of the lighting around the shoot. What needs to be considered in human interest photography is to pay attention to the point of interest in the work, namely by adjusting the composition of the photo, and finding the best angle from each angle of taking the object. In a study project entitled Activities in the Old City of Semarang as a Subject for Human Interst Photography with a Human Photo Approach, the author has succeeded in making twenty photographic works that are printed with a size of 40cm x 30cm which are laminated on matte and framed with simple and elegant frames. The photo works are hope to buy, take responsibility, bargain, perseverance, eccentric, persistent, sincere smile, commitment, posing, aromatic, deliver customers, waiting for customers, go home, cycling, raindrops, shade, waiting, sleep , tired of waiting and taking steps. The photographic work made in this study project as a whole uses a human photo approach.