Fore-mid background

Fore-ground

Mid-ground

Background

Manual

Richard Billington

ISO : because it's inside the ISO should be on high up to 1600 at least
WB : make sure the white balance is on Day Light
Shutter : Fast shutter - to catch everything in focus you should have your shutter on high speed.
Aperture : make sure the aperture is on low so it can catch a little bit of light.
Camera Angle : Mid - shot angle
Cropping : Wide shot
Composition : the camera is slightly on the right,
Community : Family

Interview

Tracey Moffatt

Interview

Nia : Tell me about yourself?

Tracey : Well, Im 53 years of age, Im an Australian artist. My art design is based on photography and video. I hold a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of art, graduating in 1982.

Nia : Describe your work style?

Tracey : In many of my works, I use my body as a model to create my own work to express myself in my own images to come across my own style in art.

Nia : That's awesome Tracey, congratulations on being award the 2013 Australia Council Visual Arts Award!!

Tracey : Thank you! It is a great honour for me. My heart went boom boom with excitement when I got the phone call. I was so thrilled to be recognised and up there with talented important names in the Australian Art World.

Nia : Do you still visit your old study colleges?

Tracey : I do, but not all the time

Nia : What do you think the secret to success could mean?

Tracey : The secret to success and sanity could mean to me is to say "No" to everything. The only thing artist really have to do is try to get on with their new work. It's always got to be the next 'thing', the next damn 'thing' ... this takes a lot of concentration. For me this is always a struggle.

Nia : Wow, do you usually have much time to yourself?

Tracey : I am always getting sidetracked and I want to socialise all the time as Sydney is so gorgeous and interesting. Then when I stay home to try to work all I do is watch tele - is six hours of tele a night too much ?

Nia : I heard you went to New York, do you miss that place?

Tracey : I do and I don't. I worship New York and it's energy and I have great friends there. I do think that it is important for Australian artists to go there and experience the art scene as it really is super out of this world. But after I lived there for 12 years and despite its great arts and culture Spiritually is was not to be enough for me. It was the pull of nature and land that drove me back here. 

Alien Letter

Dear Alien

Earth is a planet where us human beings have been living on for thousands of years. In this letter I, Nia Inangaro is going to explain my community to you which is about family. A family means to me as having a group consisting two parents and their children living in the same household. To have a relation between human beings is having the same blood type. This means when a female meets a male then they have a way of making babies / children together which makes them a whole family. This means the female and male become parents. For example I'm the middle child in my family and theirs five of us, I have two brothers and sisters, both older and younger. My parents are still together meaning some other parents can separate later in life. There are different cultures on this earth there are so many I don't even know where to start. My culture background is Cook Island, Tahitian, Chinese. My mums side of the family, her father is from Aitutaki, Cook Island, and her mother is from Tahiti. My dads side of the family, his father is from Rarotonga and is part Chinese, and his mother is from Mangaia.

Research Artist #3

Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt was born on the 12 of November in 1960, she is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. She holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982. Her works are held in the collections of the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, and Art Gallery of New South Wales.

These are three examples of Tracey Moffatt's photography work :

Something More 1 (1989)

Up in the sky 12 (1997)

Up in the sky 2 (1997)

Camera Light Activity

Light Source

Direct Light

Defused Light

Reflection Light

Context handout

Evaluation for your photograph

What's working?
- rule of thirds are in line.
- used a fast shutter
- used a high ISO because it was outside.

What's not working?
- the sky is a bit way too white
- the bottom left corner,

What next?
- could make the sky more detailed with the clouds

My response

Research Artist #2

Leilani Kake

Leilani was a student at Manukau Institute of Technology back in 2002 doing a Degree in Visual Arts at the Faculity of Creative Arts Department. In 2005 she came back to postgraduate study in Fine Arts, she was awarded the salamander Gallery/Creative New Zealand Emerging Pacific Visual Artist Award. Her most recent international exhibition was Le Folauga- the past coming forward: Cotemporary Pacific Art from Aotearoa New Zealand exhibition in Taiwan (2007)

These are three images of Leilani's work;

Aperture Photo Shots

Deep DOF Photos x2

Shallow DOF x2

High Camera Angle x1

Low Camera Angle x1

Open Crop x1

Tight Crop x1

Camera Shutter Activity

Slow Shutter

These examples are Class blur images of Tangi on a wheelie chair rolling through the class. Second example is of Tangi had pushed the wheelie chair though the class.

Fast Shutter

These examples are of Frozen images of me tossing a piece of stick in the air. We found it hard because we couldn't get the right timing which was tricky.

The recipe

Hip Hop Recipe
Block Party

Recipe Ingredients :
Location
Scratching
Music
Party

Cookware and Utensils :
Beer / Alcohol
Snacks / BBQ
Speakers
DJ / Turn Table

Recipe Instructions :

1. Make sure you have a place to set the party, like at the end of your street or outside your house.
2. Preparation .  Set up posters or/and flyers around places where you would like people to come and enjoy themselves. For example work, or/and school. Set up what time the party is going to start.
3. Plan out how you would get everything together like tables, platters a DJ to be there on the night.
4. Set up a day before or even on that day. Prepare everything 
5. Party Time

Preparation Time: 2/3 weeks

Research

Thomas Struth

Thomas photographs family portraits, large format black and white photographs of the streets in New York. He uses strong contrasts of light and shade.
Three examples of his work:

5 Wrong Photographs

 Daylight

 Fluent

 Tungsten

 Blurry

 Over exposed

 Underexposed