Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Term 2: Week 3-4 Portfolio Trees 5#

Day 4: Tree Testing

360 Mt Wellington Panaroma Whow!!!! What beauty?

Stockade Hill Howick (Callitropsis Macrocarpa tree)

• Canon 5DMK3 • Canon lens EF24-70mm • Mefotto Tripod • Shutter release • Sunrise 6.53am • F22 small f-stop • 13.0 slow shutter speed • ISO200 • Focal length 24mm • Wide depth of field • Natural light

Planning: to capture the early morning colours coming through the trees to create a silhouette. The idea is to create a mood and soft looking shoot for the viewer too see the beauty of the trees against the morning sunrise and the sky. The street lights help with the natural lighting.

Really enjoy the bench to the right, the tree on the left helps balance the photo. Overlooking Howick before the start to a new day (left). Pathway leading line time to head home (right). I really enjoyed this shoot. These 3 photos could add to my final presentation.

Bucklands Beach walkway bridge Panaroma

Trees totally complete the walkway, a busy area for joggers, people walking there dogs or going to work heading to the ferry. No one stops to notice the trees.

Capturing the trees has be a very enjoyable and natural shoot for me. My aim is to document a variety of different trees all over Auckland and Franklin District. Differently seen some unusual looking trees dead and much alive.

What do I see and hope the viewer gets out of seeming these images. An appreciation to all the amazing beauty that surrounds us. To stop and look!!!

Planning: Photos taken on different times of the day. All sorts of weather. Sunny, rainy, windy.

Looking at the light? How the natural light changes the look and colours of the trees. Documenting the types of trees has being a lot easier than I thought. Raining weather was a challenge keeping the gear dry.

Rain adds to the photo and differently the mist.

Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Norfolk Pine, Pohutukawa, Metrosideros Excelsa, Windswept and Callitropsis Macrocarpa trees above.

Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Norfolk Pine and Callitropsis Macrocarpa trees above.

“Mountain of the Whau tree”
Mt Wellington

Panmure Basin with the magnificent trees around the basin and the reflection of the trees on the water.

A project I will definitely go back and document genre in greater depth and complete. So much beauty in many different and amazing ways.

Monday, 1 June 2015

Term 2: Week 3 Portfolio Experimentation Trees

Experimentation | Evaluating:

Rainy and overcast misty.

Small aperture wide depth of field. Tripod used. No Mountains visible.

F22 1/13 ISO200 24-70mm@24mm 23 May 10.45am

Rainy and overcast misty. Large aperture narrow depth of field. Tripod used. Mountains visible.

F5.0 1/160 ISO100 24-70mm@24mm 24 May 8.25am

The rain has stopped cleaning. Small aperture wide depth of field. Tripod used. Mountains and sky visible.
F14.0 1/50 ISO100 24-70mm@24mm 24 May 9.41am

Sunny clearing. Large aperture narrow depth of field. Tripod used. Mountains visible. Sun ray, reflection and shadows of the trees.

F2.8 1/1600 ISO100 24-70mm@24mm 24 May 10.19am

Rain moving in clouds starting to cover the mountains. Large aperture narrow depth of field. Tripod used. Mountains visible. Covercast.

F2.8 1/2000 ISO100 24-70mm@24mm 23 May 11.40am

Term 2: Week 4: Digital Tech Russell Dixon - Cinematographer & Photographer

Evaluating an image | What do I see? | How do I read it? | Research | Experimentation | Evaluation | Contextualization

After listening to our guest photographer’s Penina Momoeisea and Russ Flat. Evaluating an image? Taking photographs makes heaps more sense. Do what you enjoy? Photograph the unexpected and crazy? People in all sorts of situations. Formal, casual, prompted and the unexpected. Interact and communicate, give clear instructions remember this may not always work out. Preparation is essential for formal photographs do your homework and planning. Lighting, time of day, obstacles weather prepare.

Today was one of those days of the unexpected and great moments of finding treasured memories in Awhitu.

• run down buildings
• old
• structure holding the house below together
• ruff untidy
• natural light
• nature continues to grow

F5.6 1/160 ISO100 24-70mm@39mm

• open road
• natural light
• wind blow
• raining
• grey mystery ahead

F5.6 1/160 ISO100 24-70mm@38mm

F2.8 1/1000 ISO100 24-70mm@38mm

• surprise and amazed

• hidden with all the growth • aircraft colours blend in with the surroundings

• graffiti and writings

• broken window

• rusted • character

• rain and cold

• this aircraft once flew with pride and great strength

F6.3 1/200 ISO160 24-70mm@35mm

Research on the Mystery aircraft

Plane is at home among the plants

HOME NEEDED: The fuselage of the Bristol 170 Freighter sits on an Awhitu property. Russell Dixon

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A derelict plane gathering greenery on a south Auckland farm has been intriguing those who have stumbled across it for decades.

The fuselage of the Bristol 170 Freighter sits abandoned on Richard Hudson’s Awhitu property, across the Manukau Harbour from Auckland Airport.

Dwen Airmotive managing director Mark Dwen said his father Ronald Dwen purchased the plane, along with seven other Bristol Freighters, from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) after they were put out of commission.

In 1978 the plane, originally registered to the Bristol Aeroplane Co as G-AINS, was flown from the air force base at Whenuapai to Ardmore Airport where Dwen’s business was based and reregistered as ZK-EPA.

Dwen said his father was involved in supplying parts and engines for Bristol Hercules Freighters around the world.

Some of the freighters went to Canada and were used in the Arctic Circle for gold mining and oil exploration operations.

Some went to the United Kingdom to be used to transport thoroughbreds around Europe, Dwen said.

Other Bristol freighters were used to transport bloodstock around New Zealand.

However, the plane that currently rested in south Auckland sat at Ardmore and was bought by Hudson from Dwen’s father in the late 1980s.

The aircraft was in the process of being scrapped when Hudson saw the plane being “chopped up” and decided to buy it.

Stephen Satherley posted a picture of the wingless freighter on his Flickr account late last year.

In 2012, photographer Russell Dixon also stumbled across the aging plane.

Dixon said it took him a long time to track down even a basic history of the plane.

The plane was understood to have been commissioned in 1947 and served with the RNZAF 41 Squadron until 1951.

The 41 Squadron was a transport unit that conducted transport flights in the South Pacific during World War II.

Bristol Freighters were also used by New Zealand cargo line Straits Air Freight Express that ran the New Zealand Railways Air service from Wellington to Blenheim before the introduction of the Cook Strait ferries.

Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) life member Les Downey said he managed to capture some images of New Zealand’s Bristol Freighters during his apprenticeship with Air New Zealand’s predecessor Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL).

While the plane that rests in Awhitu seems to have seen better days another Bristol Freighter still sits at Ardmore Airport.

Dwen said the plane had featured in movies and commercials, hosted birthday parties and been used for fire service training drills. But now it needed a new home as Dwen Airmotive’s lease at Ardmore was almost up. Ideally the plane would go to a good home in a museum or a private collection, he said.

Russell Dixon – Cinematographer & Photographer:

Under The Pier – Waiheke Island

Posted by Russ on 20/02/2015

Posted in: Landscape, Travel Photography. Tagged: Auckland, Dervish images, Landscape, Lee Filters, Long Exposure, New Zealand, Russ Dixon, Travel Photography, Waiheke Island

Canon 5DMK3, Canon 24-105 f4, Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Tripod, L Bracket, Remote Release, Lee Big Stopper Filter

60 second exposure at f10, ISO 100, 24mm

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Experimentation:

• Canon 5DMK3
• Canon 24-70mm
• No Tripod
• Wide depth of field
• Fore, mid and background in focus
• Negative space
• F9.0 1/320 ISO200 35mm

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Term 2: Week 5: Digital Tech Uxbridge Art Centre Research

Term 2: Week 5 Digital Tech Haru Sameshima Response

Haru Sameshima Research

Haru Sameshima was born in 1958, Shizuoka City, Japan. Immigrated to New Zealand 1973. He was taught photography by his scientist father at early age. He worked in small Dunedin photographic studio learning the craft before attending Otago Polytechnic Art School in 1980, then completing BFA (1992) and MFA (1995) at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

Sameshima has been exhibited and
published widely in New Zealand. His on-going photographic essays include eco- Tourism 1990 to present – photographic investigation of the touristic-construction of places and imagery of New Zealand, Souvenir from the tourist sites of popular tourist destinations from the globe. He is the author of Bold Centuries: a photographic history album, published by Rim Books and PhotoForum in 2009. This publication features Sameshima’s own photography along with historical and found images. It is compiled with essays examining the various ways in which photographs depict the surroundings to construct sense of histories.

Sameshima has also shown portfolios in International Triennial Bright Paradise at Auckland Art Gallery (2001), Wonderland at Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth (1999) and Fotographia, Festival Internationale Di Roma. Italy 2006.

Haru Sameshima Response

Evaluation: Haru Sameshima is a very versatile photographer and publisher. He is involved in a variety of works. His work space is geared with a darkroom for developing film and a studio area. Haru does all is own post production work in house. This includes scanning and doing outside work for other clients. Mark Adams and Haru both use the work space. Haru is very much old school technology. No internet or phone present in his office except a mobile phone. A lot of archive is kept on the premises. He does not believe in getting rid of the old to replace with the new. He recently upgraded to digital camera. I would say that if he was commissioned to shoot a venue or area with his skills light and composition would come naturally. A lot of his photo are portraits documenting history for the books to be published or have being published.

Contextualisation:
Haru photographs many different areas of genre. These include documentary, editorial and fine art. He works on creating the best photo for the client. This is seen in the Bold Centuries by Haru Sameshima. Documenting the works of the environment of the past and continuing into the present. Their is an emphasis on the impact of foreign influence, historically from the British. Documenting the images for the viewers give them the chance to explore and understand New Zealand.

Experimentation:
Looking at some of Haru work as above the motorway and off ramp. I felt the photos taking just after listening to Haru of the building across the road is a good example of documenting architecture. This was a big difference between the old building Haru has being in for the passed 20 years and new glass design.

Using natural light was a bit difficult to capture the true and amazing colours of the glass and reflections. Definitely would like to go back and capture in different light perhaps at night of early morning. Not sure if the building get a large amount of light due to the area built.

The architecture of this building is quiet fasinating. The glass captures the building in the reflection. This was enjoyable photographing the building. Needed a different technique to capture the colours. I will need to research and go back and shoot. The camera lens did not capture the beauty of this building. Open to suggestions on new ideas. Low angle with wide DOF.

The leading lines of the stairs and tight crop. The reflection compliments and completes the photo. This could have being a bit brighter too many shadows. The eye goes to the top of the building. Need to re shoot. Warmer colours would enhance the look and definitions of the detail of the building.

This photo is over exposed.

At first glance the photo looks a bit confusing. The viewer will need to stop, look, understand? I like this photo a bit creative. Looking around the area I have realised always be looking for the unexpected. Thanks ladies most enjoyable.