Monday 1st August 2016

This morning we started with showing every-one our toi's. Every one had a very touching story to go with theirs but when it came to my turn I was to embarrassed and flustered to say everything that I wanted to say, it was no where near like every one else's but that is fine because I am me. I did write about it in my last blog basically.

We next went through a powerpoint about the important parts of a DSLR camera such as, ISO, Aperture, Shutter and white balance. I do remember most of this from my moving image class and feel comfortable with using it. But here is some cheat sheets to help remember any ways.




After this we were given instructions about taking 5 wrong photos and to put them in our blogs.

ISO: 1600

Aperture: 4.0

Shutter Speed: 1/20

Custom White Balance.

ISO: 6000

Aperture: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/20

Custom White Balance.

ISO: 400

Aperture: 7.1

Shutter Speed: 1/400

Custom White Balance.

ISO: 3200

Aperture: 7.1

Shutter Speed: 1/25

Custom White Balance. 

ISO: 800

Aperture: 8.0

Shutter Speed1/50.

I custom white Balanced this photo by taking a picture of a dark colour and set it through the custom white balance settings. 

We left for lunch after taking this photo. When we came back to class we had a look/ reminder of manakitanga is and then moved on to what is research and how we do it. 

What we came up with in class is 

Book = library, ebook, internet, google scholar, aut library, elam library, Auckland art gallary,art space, mit libraries. 

Internet= Books, lynda.com, tutorials, tv. ep, youtube. pinterest, behance, artists web pages. 

We also need to keep in mind when researching is that the information needs to be up to date, we need to look for the unknown, be in the right frame of mind.

We need to cite our information and the artwork we put in our blogs, such as, Title, artist name, date, medium, size of art work. and to include our own thoughts about this art work. 

Next we were all set into groups to discuss what we cannot photograph. I like our groups list because it was ethical and realistic, we didn't  really talk about non technology, or god or air. 

This is our list:

Very sensitive moments,

private information,

People without permission,

private property,

most art galleries,

public transport,

places that have signage saying no photography, 

places like womans refuge,

a photo devolopment dark room,

court rooms

prison or jails,

high end shops,

marae,

old books,

parlament,

surgery,

car number plates,

changing rooms/public toilets,

movies, 

After making this list and sharing it with the class we were split into our groups to go to the computer rooms and marie started showing us about the computer servers and blogs but since I already knew about it i started this blog instead, which helps with my homework basically, i'll be doing a seperate blog for my research, I am aiming to have at least two blogs a week one for class notes and another for research and experiments.

my first experiments for this class will be this weekend on saterday, a couple of us from class are going to go to Auckland zoo both for fun and class bonding time but also to get more practice with the camera as well. I am so excited for that. 

Thanks for reading, see you next time. 

Monday 25th July

so we played a memory game for the class warm up session. Our teacher Rebecca had a bucket that held 15 objects in it. she placed each one on the table and then put it back into the bucket and we had to write down what we remembered.

a wooden horse.
graduation owl
tape casset
golden eiffel tower
camera christmas ornament
shuttle cock
metal arrow head
skull
boat in a jar
kahu feather
flax finger trap
purple phone key ring

we next did a name game to learn the new students names. we had the chose a a word to go with the first letter of your name. i choose crazy caroline. i stayed silent for the rest of the game because i am terrible with balls and i was afraid that i might break something and i also couldnt think of anything else to go with my name in the heat of the moment. the rest of the morning went quickly like that with more introductions towards the teachers and their pasts. after lunch we moved to the whanau room. and did a little debated on a picture wither it was a painting or a photograph. but i was rooting for the other side most of the time. but i tried to not be biased.

we were given homework to do over the week which is:

1. Make a motivational bumber sticker with material provided:

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I choose to write believe as my motivational word because I need to believe in my self to get through this course and achieve my goals and make good art work.

next part was we needed to bring something to class that reminds us why we are coming to school and making artwork and i have choosen a series of photos but they are only online photos as i don't have hard copies.

I choose these photos for a couple reasons. Stephanie basically made me come to school in the first place which was one of the many good things that she has done for me. I choose the other's because I never had much growing up in my life, never really had friends and i have no family and other struggles but every day I come to school I find new friends who have also become my family and I find new things I love doing and I want to succeed in my schooling to make my new family proud and to make my future a brighter place. 

Me and Photography.

Good Afternoon.

As this is my first blog for Introduction to Photography I should introduce my self and my little bit knowledge so far. Last semester I took an Introduction to moving image class which will help guide me through this class in regards to a DSLR camera, and their functions like, ISO. Aperture, Shutter speed and so on. I also know the basics to photoshop, but I did most of my photo editing in bridge which only changes the colour gradients. I look forward to learning more in depth knowledge of both. In the last year I have felt more drawn to photography the more I learn about it but I don't know where it well take me at this point.

The style of photography I like is more abstract and arty, I want my photographs to tell a story or make the viewers really think about what they are looking at. I have enjoyed working with a Macro lens and have been experimenting on taking photos of peoples eyes.

This last one was just taken with my phone out of curiosity. Hence the low quality.

I am also curious about double exposure. As well. 

Thanks for reading 😊