My Final Project

 In the weekend (5th - 7th of September (Father's Day Weekend) I took some photo's of my family and I tried getting the correct ISO, Aperture and shutter speed which worked on some of the photographs. The Community that I decided to do was Family and I took a portrait photo of my Parents and the rest of the other photo's were experiments because i had trouble trying to get the ISO, Aperture, and shutter speed right.

Foreground, Midground, Background

Community Research

Research Of my community

• The Community that i have chosen to research is family/parents
• My parents were born in Samoa
• My dad was born in the island of Savai'i 1956
• My Mum was born in the Island of Upolu 1964
• They came to NZ in the early 1990's
• They gave birth to me in 1995
• My dad used to be an Amateur Boxer
• My Mum used to work in a Factory called Cerebos in East Tamaki
• My Dad used to work in a Factory called Arnotts where they make biscuits
• They both got married in Samoa (before I was even Born)
• They both don't work anymore because they are both disabled and are on sick benefits
• My dad is the 3rd oldest in his family
• My Mum is the 4th or 5th oldest in her family

How am I going to take the photo of my community?

Photographer: Edith Amituanai

Title: Mr and Mrs Sagapolou

Series: Mrs Amituanai

Year: 2005

As i was doing some research on a group of artists this artist (Edith Amituanai) gave me an idea on how to take a photo of my parents. This photo below is a photo of my parents back in 2007 and this photo is sort of similar to Edith Amituanai's photo.

Manual

Artist: Edith Amituanai

ISO: The ISO is probably above 800 as you can see in the photo that the photo was taken in the afternoon

White Balance: The White Balance that I think is Automatic

Shutter Speed: The shutter speed i think is between 1/250 - 1/1000

Aperture: The Aperture of this photo is approximately between 3.4 - 1.4

Camera Angle: The Camera that I see in the photo is a Mid Shot

Cropping: I think its a Landscape photo cropped into a mid shot image

Composition: It is a central composition of the image

Community: It is a Rugby Community (sporting)

Artist Interview

Interview with Edith Amituanai

Q) Where were you born?

A. I was born in Auckland New Zealand in 1980

Q) When did your parents come to NZ?

A. They came to NZ from the Beautiful Island of Samoa in the late 1960s

Q) Where in NZ did they settle?

A. They settled in Christchurch where other family relatives were living

Q) Where did you study?

A. I studied at the University Of Auckland's Elam School Of Fine Arts

Q)When did you Graduate from University?
A. I graduated University in 2009

Q) What kind of Photo's do you take?
A. I take photos of Pacific Island people who are currently living overseas like sports people who are islanders but have contracts to other countries like NZ, Australia, Europe, America etc

Q) Why were you inspired by this?
A. I Guess it is because I am a proud islander and I wanted to explore other people who are living in other foreign countries and wanted to show the world that our culture is well and alive through other countries.

Letter To Alien

To Unknown Alien

hows it going? I hear you have no understanding of what a community is and thankfully i am writing this letter to explain what a community is and how you can be a part of a community.

Community means a group of people who live in the same certain area or have similar characteristics or in other words people who are similar with each other.

The community im going to focus on or write about is family and we all know that each human being and other species have families. In my family there are 4 of us (Father, Mother, Sister, and me) and we are all Samoans and we currently live in NZ (New Zealand) in this little area/town called Otara in the city of Auckland.

Hey how about you come over sometime and meet my family? and then i can explain more about Communities and how you can be involved or a part of a community.

I hope you receive this letter and hope you reply soon.

Yours Sincerely

Curtis "HULK" Olomautu

Light Camera Shots

On Monday 25th of August I went with a couple of boys and we all took turns on using the camera and taking different shots by using light and I took a photo of one of the boys and this is what i took