Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Wednesday 24 th august research and application.

Good evening

For the research I found this week was from facebook, I started following a photographer, flicksbyjosh ( there is no spacing in his facebook page, but he is worth checking out because his work is amazing.)  I found him through Samantha from class. I saw some of his shots that used slow shutter speed/ long exposures. I have been dieing to try to use this mode for quite a long time but I didn't know how to do it so I looked up instruction online.

I found this on google




I found this incredible helpful on my trials.



This is called tunnel vision, by flicksbyjosh, in august 2016

This was the first one that I saw on facebook, which I am guessing put on a slow shutter speed/ long exposure, because This high way be packed, I just wonder how he managed to get in that position in the first place it would be extremely awkward particularly with a tripod. potentionly dangerous. But I like how one side is lit up and one side is dark is very visually appealing.



I can guess this photo was taken at night time because even though the sky is slightly lit up, from what i know about long exposure is that it makes the sky look lighter than it actually is. I love how the colour is being used in this photo and that it portrays that time is flying by. there isn't anything I don't like about this photo.

Stephanie, Dorothy and me stayed late at school to try practising some long exposure and night photography, Stephanie all ready has some prior experiance with long exposure shots from her last photography class. We started taking photos around 6. 30 pm. we had a little trouble because it started raining and we had to stay under cover.

My responses to josh's photos are:



ISO: 200
Aperture: 4.0
Shutter Speed: Bulb
Auto White Balance.
What went wrong in this photo is that I had my aperture down way to low. I held the shutter down for 10 seconds, and in turn basically turned this photo to over exposed. I kind of like it because it has a dreamy feeling to it albeit more like a nightmare than a pleasant dream. 



ISO:100
Aperture: 25.0
Shutter speed: bulb
Duration: 20 seconds. 

This was my second attempt after stephanie pointing out that my Aperture was to low, so i threw the aperture as High as I could. It turned out all right, What I like most is that the trafic in the background is streaking in the background but it basically is to small to really enjoy it,  otherwise this photo isnt that special. 


This is the same settings and time as above. 
I like this one because it is a new angle and it looks kind of cool, What I have noticed is that because of the type of lighting that was around us all the lighting in my photos are all a sickly yellow colour, I dont really like this. 


Same settings and time as above.

I just love how the lights look like they have turned into stars. 


Same settings as above but the time duration was only 11 seconds. 

This was my first "ghost" picture. I captured this by mistake, Stephanie was using my phone trying to look something up and I decided to take a photo but then she moved so I stoped taking the photo and this is what i got. I was plesantly surprised. 

These are the rest of the good photos that I took








After this Stephanie's mum came and picked us up and took dorothy home then we went home.

Thank you for reading

Monday, 29 August 2016

week 5 Monday 22nd August 2016

Today we are having formatives, I was late to class because I had a meeting but when I got to class we were being given good examples of skills, Application and Manaakitanga shown through what we have already done and what is in our blogs, I missed it but I was told that my posting in the year 1' facebook page is very good Manaakitanga. I feel proud that I was one of the examples. we were then shown a chart of when we would go for our formatives I was with Marie for my formative. Because I am in her group. My time was at 10 15.

So far my blogs are looking good which I am happy about, what I do need to do better is like talk more about what I like and Don't like about the photos I put in my blogs and what is good or bad about them. I need to bullet point about the software that I am learning in class and need to do more with application, so like practice more and talk more about what I am practicing. I also need to remember to put down the title and author/creator or medium and date on my found images and if I can't find them then I need to put unknown. All this is simple enough, I just need to make sure I am putting enough time and effort into my work as I am doing it.

When I had finished with my formative I went to Ralph and hired out a Macro lens so I could practice taking pictures with eyes, so I have some materials to try and photo in preparation for my presentation in the last week.

I had Samantha, Denise, Stephanie, Tahanga and myself was my models for the day