Lens Based task

Frame with pattern

Fill Frame with Pattern

                                     

Image that Utilise repetition 

Experimenting Face Blur

 

Here i was working with blur and long shutter speed. I really like the look of blur so i played with reflection and long shutter speed for my self portrait work. Im looking at my self identity as a Plastic Samoan. 

I really liked the use of lighting and reflection. I just picked up the mirror and began to play with shutter speed for this experimentation.

I like the way the blur works but will need to give it another go. I like the colour and purpose of blurring out my face is my identity as myself is so unknown to me. I still need to work on this and play with double exposure in my next experimentation. 

Research

 Duane Michals

Duane is a American Photographer born February  18, 1932. Duane interest in art began at the age of 14, he attend Watercolour university classes at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. 

He spent two years in the army in 1956 he went on to study at the Parsons School of design with plan to become a graphic designer. He did not complete his studies. Michals describes his photographic skills "completly self - taught" Michals was a commercial photographer working for his Esquire and Mademoiselle also covered the filming of the "The great gatsby" for Vogue. Michals didn't have a studio, He took portraits of people in their enviroments. 

Duane wasn't involved in gay civil rights, his photography addressed gay themes. 

I really like the way Duane Michals has used double exposure in his art work. 

Photo Task

 Diagonal Lines

 Vertical Lines

 Horizontal line towards Barbara

 Texture 

 Texture

 Vertical

 Horizontal

Photoshop

Photoshop Task

Photoshop Quickmask

Quick mask tool in photoshop 

Camera Task

Rule of Thirds

  Original Image Un-cropped

Cropped

Self Portrait Research

This is a brain storm about myself. I talked to my parents about where they came from in Samoa. Where my grandparents came from and why they had moved to New Zealand. This is helping me understand myself abit better and my background and culture as a samoan. I didn't know what village i came from but sitting down with my parents and discussing a little about my background helped.

Self Portrait Research

http://samoanweavinghq.com/plastic-samoans/ written by Maureen Unasa

This is a article that i have been reading. Similar people who feel the same way as myself either they are Afakasi and feel "plastic. This article is helping me think about my ideas for my project, I like to gain other information from other people who has had similar experiences as myself.

Paper plane Excercise

Today in class we looked at Experimentation making sure that as a class or when we begin our project we look at trying multiple things or trying new ideas to help us perfect our idea. We learnt that we sometimes may fail and that it's all apart of experimenting.

Paper Plane:
What was working? What's not working? 
Our paper plane didn't work out as good as we thought it would. We thought that the weight would have been the cause of why our paper plane wouldn't fly far. Then again in our paper plane we had a gap in the middle where the wind would get through. So me and my panther decided to glue the wings together to avoid the wind from getting through the middle of our paper plane. Again that didn't work out also. This just tells us that for you in order to gain better ideas you need to start somewhere and that it's alright to fail that's what experimenting is all about.

FORM

Greg Semu

Looking at the form of the image. What I see? 

FORM: taro leaves, food, leaves, plants, flax, wood, brown, people, women, male, culture, flowers, tapa cloth, lava lava, necklace, table, pattern, lighting, nude, green, yellow 

Self Portrait Research:

                                     


I am thinking about looking at my culture and identity and my placement as full Samoan New Zealand born female. How i fit into my culture? Where? When? My key word for this project will be Plastic. Growing up i've always felt left out not knowing my language nor my culture. I wasn't brought up in the Fa'a Samoa way in my house hold. So it has been different for me growing up as a child. Most of my cousins have gained the opportunity to learn the language and the culture in their household. I want to use photography to look at me, myself and what i identify myself as in todays society. I've used the word Plastic in high school that's what the girls would refer me to because I only knew little knowledge about where i come from and my homeland. It sometimes makes me question who i really am in this society today. So i want to look at what i would identify myself as today.

Evaluating

When evaluating need to remind myself to be open minded about my class mates around me. Also be careful about how i discuss my feedback and be mindful of how i say it. 

Lens Based 2

 Moa in foreground. 

Moa in mid-ground

Moa in background

 Moa low vantage point

High vantage point

Vantage Point

Lens Based

Freezing Movement

The sprite can is my object that is using DOF. 

Image with a deep DOF. Everything on table is in focused.

Image isolating blur effect

HAIKU

5 - First step is to learn. 
7 - Next put it into practice.
5 - There you go! TECHNIQUE!

                                           

         Image - Artist: Anna & Berhard Blume

Anna & Berhard Blume are a married couple from Germany. Anna Blume was born in 1937 in Bork, Westphalia Germany. Berchard Blume was also born in 1937 but in Dormud, Germany. 

The pair both studied at Staatiliche Kanstakademie from 1960 to 1965 in Germany. The couple lived and worked together in Cologne and Anna gave birth to twin girls in 1967 until 1985 worked as an Art teacher. 

They both referred themselves to German art photographers. They developed large sequences of black and white photos of staged scenes. 

Surface Research & In Depth Research

Surface Research: The boat to me represents me having such little knowledge about a topic. Whilst i throw the net out towards the ocean to gather information from different sources like internet, videos, books etc. The fishing net allows me to collect all the information for my research.

In depth image: the divers are represent looking for more. Diving into the sea to find more information and divers scatter in the ocean to look for more. This represents in depth research.

 Over Exposed

 Under Exposed

 White Balance wrong

                                                              Incandescent Effect

 Blur image of Pascal

5 wrong images
Kendra Leilua & Pascal Atiga
3rd March, 2015

Learning Values!

MIT Bachelor/Diploma of Visual Arts students are making gains this year, with their creative minds!

TIME MANAGEMENT

What my weeks will be looking like from now on. 

TOI

                                         Etelagi (Mother) Me (Kendra) Sului (Father) - 2013, Rotorua Blue Lake

This is a image of me and my parents at the National Outrigging Secondary Competition. We just won our first gold and made school history by winning a National title for Auckland Girls after 7 years. This picture helps me to remember the time where i first started as a paddler. It reminds me of how far I have come. It reminds me of all the obstacles I have faced alongside with my parents. As a kid I've always been different to everyone else in my family even being left handed, i was the odd one out but as i grew older I started to find my interest. Which was in art and underground hip hop.

                            VOICE

Art to me is about sharing my experiences and obstacles with everyone around me. It's about finally having a voice of my own to share with the world and show them how i see things. I enjoy art because there is no limit to what we can create and mould my craft in my own individual way.