monday 7th november

I am still feeling alittle surprised that is november now.

today we looked at context, and formal content using a photo from Suzanne Tamaki. For God, For Queen, for country.

The context of this image is:

• powerful
• She assoisciates he self as Native Sista
• indigenous
• Possible Maori or pacifica because of her last name.
• about myths and leegends
• Size is just a little 
• She identifies with the Pacific sista's group as she was one of the founding members
• fashion - fiber - texture
• Wahine-Toa feature through her work
• traditional maori - indeginous costuming used.

We had a quick break and did a teacher evaluation before carrying on with talking about 

Formal Techniques

• Framing - Full shot of model leaving a little room on all 4 sides, center of frame 
• soft lighting - background is lit as there is no shadows behind the model. 
• ISO at least 100 because the room is brightly lit with special lighting
• high aperture
• high shutter speed
• shallow depth of field
• view point slightly lower than eye level - making the model seem bigger  than us more powerful
• implied texture
• repetition of colour
• its a portrait 
• bounced lighting, it allows one side of the model to be in slight shadow
• custom white balance
• there is a vignette
• its contrasting 
• her posture is regal, proud 
• she is wearing the union jack as well as our flag, a top hat and gloves that look like styled from the 1900's

We went straight to the computer rooms after lunch. where marie talked to us about getting  test prints ready for ralph to print, I have decided to get my main prints done through harvey norman. Samantha, stephanie and i have planned on going saturday and have the prints done, and go back to sam's after to put our projects together at her house. During the weekend I found this amazing folder, book binder to display my work in for the end of the term presentation and i found one for sam as well, My one is bright gold and i got black paper for the inside of the binder to apply my photos for. for sam's it is a soft baby pink with black paper also. I find it very comforting that  sam is presenting in a simalar way as me because i have her to talk to and refer to for guidence and that i wouldnt be the only one presenting a book, all though mine is done to poetry whereas sam has written her self a pretty cool little short story