samantha sailiata

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Core Skills : Lens, Experiment Blog 2

"Photography Experiment Two"

With this experiment I decided to try and capture the moments of the girls dancing by setting the shutter speed high to freeze frame them during their dancing. I also wanted to get close ups of the girls to show the people that are looking at my photos how happy the girls are when they do the siva Samoa ( Samoan dance ).

Core Skills : Lens, Experiment Blog 1

"Photography Experiments"

This is a photo that I took last year at Poly Fest of the Taupou doing her Taualuga.

I took these photos over the weekend of Mangere College prepping themselves for Poly Fest this year. I used these photos as an experiment blog and a research blog because although the photos are not self portraits they still represent who I am in a way.

Core Skills : Lens , Research 1

"Lindsay Gaono"

" I was always told from my father to always stand your ground regardless what happens. My mother always told me to never forget your culture and where you come from.

I was born in Australia 12th of August 1989 raised in Samoa for five years then moved to New Zealand, August 8th 1996. Lived in St Heliers then we moved to Glen Innes. Stayed in Grey Lynn on Johns street moved to Mt Albert and been here since. We spoke English when we were at school and in public but we spoke Samoan at home and at family meetings. Now days we are starting to loose our language. Due to being surround but this westernized environment. I can stand here and say that regardless your situations there is always a way to hold on to your culture regardless were you end up in life. " - Lindsay Gaono

I find Linday's work interesting because of how he uses places his culture into his work.

In most of his self portraits he represents the importance of his culture adding concepts to each photo that he takes. When it comes to my work I try my best to represent those concepts but by taking photos of other people. I'm not into self portraits because in my own opinion I believe that taking photos of yourself can get boring for others to see. I express my culture through my photos by capturing moments in life whether its of myself or others.

This is an old photo that I took last year at Poly Fest of Mangere College. I edited the photo using Photoshop CS6 making the background and foreground black and white while keeping the woman in the mid-ground ( taupou ) in color to show that all eyes should be placed on her during her dance routine ( taualuga ).

Monday, 10 March 2014

Core Skills: Lens - Photography Task

Slow Shutter Speed Experiment

Shallow Depth of Field

Frozen Moment

Shallow Depth of Field

Deep Depth of Field

ISO 400

Automatic White Balance

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Core Skills: Lens - Bad Photography Blog

" Purposely Bad Photography "

With this photo I lowered the shutter speed in order to get to make the photo blurry and show every movement that was made.

This photo was taken in the classroom with a low ISO to cause the photo to become dark.

This photo was taken outside, messing with the light settings on the camera helped us create the blue image.

Core Skills : Lens , Statement

" Art enables us to find ourselves and loser ourselves at the same time. " - Thomas Merton.

My name is Samantha Sailiata I am one of those who have lost themselves in something that they are truly passionate about. Most people are able to speak their minds in order to tell their story but as for me, I let my art work be the illustration of a story ready to be told.