Cafe Batavia, J'adore (Extended) & Travel Tips

Indri and I got generally the same question from many of you about how we, as university students, could go to places so often. Thus, I release this post special for explaining the question. Plus, I give you some secret tips how you can travel and hunt photos as often as we did, although you are not financially independent yet.

The first thing that you need to underline is that you have to know first what your passion is and what makes you happy. Everyone will have different answers. This tips will work well if you have the same answer as me and Indri. Our passion is fashion photography and traveling (exploring). No wonder if we instantly gonna be happy by window shopping only. However, if you have different passion with us, you still can continue to read this post to know that there is always story behind the photographs.

Indri and I have a dream to be world travelers. We believe that this world is so wide and there are many things await us to be explored. Now, we are training ourselves to explore any places as far as we can. Last year, Alhamdulilllah we were succeed to travel to Yogjakarta, Central Java for the first time with minimal budget. Fortunately, that dream is connected with our passion. We often make a plan to go somewhere only for hunting photos. The benefits that we got are amounts too:

• We gained experiences in visiting new places, including how to go there, what the transportation that we used, and the condition of the building itself for photography.
• We met new people or old relatives, including sharing new experience, increasing connection, and gaining motivation to be success like them. 
• We got many knowledge and inspiration, especially when attending bazaar or exhibition and going to museum.

People saw my instagram account and thought that Indri and I was kind of hedonist people. FYI, that we are ordinary human that love extraordinary thing and Alhamdulillah have capability to make ordinary objects become good looking images. If you are curious about how we produced those images in our instagrams, here I provide you our secrets:

• Subscribe account that provide you any info about exhibition, bazaar, and workshop! It can be via e-mail or twitter account. For Indonesian, you may try http://jadwalevent.web.id/ They provides so many events info. Choose the free one!
• Read fashion magazine like Harper's Bazaar or Marie Claire! They sometimes also provide info about sophisticated event. I usually read them as inspiration for my fashion design.
• Follow magazine's instagram account as they will post any event posters too!
• Decide a concept before hunting photos! Choose which place that you want to use as the location setting, what kind of outfit that matched, and what kind of make up that you want to apply.
• In styling, use kind of outfit that you feel comfort in it and represent your own personality! You don't need to be somebody else to be stylish. However, also match the color and the fabrication with the destination place! For example, if we go to temple, we avoid brown, and grey colors because it will camouflage with the stone. Choose bright colors like pastel colors or fruity colors to pop up the photograph! Or, if you want elegant look, black never goes wrong. 
• Eat and drink well in home before you go hunting some photos! Some meals are high cost enough in your destination place. Grab bread or donuts in pastry shop for snack because they are just IDR 10,000 and contain enough carbohidrat.
• Bring water bottle with you to be environmentally friendly, hygienic, and low cost.
• Bring some make up to touch up when you arrive in the destination! In order to have good photographs, you need to have fresh and clean look.
• Go together with your bestfriend(s) because the trip will be more fun. Bestfriend is the one who know you so well, sometimes also have the same desire with you. There are many things that possible to happens during your trip. Sometimes you will feel tired of walking, hungry.. or you may want to stay longer in that place, want to take more photos and feel like you wanna buy any meals but you don't want to pay and eat it by yourself. lol. All those things are very easy if you do it with your bestfriend. Indri and I do so.
• Use comfortable, secure, and low cost public transportation for your journey. Usually I and Indri by TransJakarta or commuter line and sit next to the security or in female carriage.
• Don't forget to charge full your DSLR battery before you go hunting!
• Catch taxi for short distance only and share the cargo cost with your bestfriend!
• You don't need to pay for photographer and make up artist. Learn and be one!
• Post only good photos with good lighting to your instagram!

I think that's all that I can share to you guys. I hope it will be useful for you. Stay tuned!

God bless you all!