World's Best Milky Way Photo | Wānanga

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I decided to write about article about the Milky Way Photo of the Year. 

Text Title: Kiwi's Milky Way photo named one of the world's best

Text Type: News Article 

Text Creator: Allan Granville - Stuff 

Text Purpose: To Inform and show.

What does the author of the text want us to know?

The author wants us to know about the amazing feats that someone in our country had achieved on a global scale. The author describes the many entrees that had went and took on the challenge of capturing the best photo of the milky way. They also informed us of the many obstacles the photographers went through to get this amazing photo of our home galaxy.

'Mt. Taranaki Milky Way' — Larry Rae

Art : Photography

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past weeks in art, we have been learning about photography, we looked at different photographs taken by famous photographers, we even took some photos ourselves. After that, we then got to learn how to use photoshop and how to apply some different styles to our photo using photoshop.

Slinkachu

For the first few weeks, we were learning about Slinkachu. Slinkachu is an artist from the UK who creates his own mini figurines and then creates a little plot for the figurines, he then leaves the figurines behind. His work embodies the elements of street art, sculpture, installation art, and photography. So by using him as an inspiration, we took some photos using small figurines and some objects to create a scene with the figurines.

For each of our photographs, we thought of a theme to go along with that a specific photo. For example, my partner and I thought that we should take some photos that represent the theme "Crime Scene". Where either one of the figurines would be hurt, dead or were surrounded by soldiers. Another theme that we did was "Another Self" where we used identical figurines and used a platform to make them face each other. 

Scene: Woman captured by soldiers.

Scene: Crime scene - Woman left to deteriote by
suspicious people.

Crime Scene like the photo above. 

A photograph we like to call "Another Self"

One of my favourite photographs were when we used blu-tack to stick to the figurine because we were supposed to hide the blue tack we thought that it was pretty hard since the figurines were small. So we thought "Why not use the blu-tack to model with the figurine?" So we came out with this outcome:

Inspired by a photo from Slinkachu.

Different View of the previous photo.

Theme: Someone drowning.

Theme: Someone Drowning in something toxic.

After taking some photos we then used the photos and created some thumbnail drawings with it. In the drawing, we highlighted the focal point and the leading lines of the photo, we also labelled the picture if it was symmetrical or not. 

Photoshop & Overlay or Collage 

For this topic, we also used the photos we took from the previous topic and use photoshop to apply overlay and collage techniques to edit the photos. We also learned some new skills from using photoshop and applied these skills to editing our photos. Some of the artists I covered when applying these skills were Chad Wys, Aliki Braine, and Randy Grskovic.

Inspired by:

Inspired by: 

Reflection: In my opinion, I did well in this topic because I work hard to complete the work that was set and I think that the photos we took were pretty cool.

Question: Which photographs did you like the most?

Sources: https://slinkachu.com/

Photmontage

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we have completed learning about photomontage and its history. Our learning objective for this topic of photography is to understand more about photomontage and use it to create some art.

From Hannah Hӧch work, I learned that photomontage doesn't have to be clean, precise or neat, it's just as if a bunch of photos overlapped and attached together to create a piece of artwork. Which I found very enjoyable because you take any photo or words to create some artwork. 

When we're creating our photomontages, it was very challenging for me because it didn't know where to put my selected images in and whether I have layered too many photos into one image. I learned a lot from this and after many days of practice, I created my final 3 pieces that I am very proud of.

This picture represents disaster and what humans do to make Earth more inhabitable. Starting from the bottom we can see lava and an umbrella,  I used these two images to create a link. because lava is hot, an umbrella is made either out of plastic or nylon. If these two were to mix it would create a fire. Moving up there is an owl, I used an owl to show how animals are getting caught up in our activities and how we are harming them.

Moving up I have a placed a lighthouse and cut it in half and put a smoke between it. I did this to show what we do and how it damages man-made structures. 

- This relates to me because I care about our environment and I do not want to destroy it, I want our environment to be healthy so that we could keep on living and prevent endangering animals. 

This montage I made was created with pure randomness, I didn't really know what to do so I decided to design a person. This entire picture represents modern life and it shows how a person might dress themselves up. 

- This doesn't relate to me in any way, but I thought it would be really fun to design a person that portrays some traits of the modern society. 

This montage represents noble society and how tough it is to live like a noble. At the back is a cropped picture of a map, that represents the land and citizens. Onto the main objective is a statue of a man. The body face and neck of the man is arranged so it shows how someone of noble background can be so different. The head and mouth represent something different, for example, perhaps a person might be complimenting someone but in their head, they might be insulting them. Moving on to the tray with the fan and eye, it represents the people that work for them and society. The tray with the fan shows that a servants job is to serve their master. Lastly, the eye on the fan represents the watchful eyes of society and how a scandal can mess up your reputation. 

- This doesn't relate to me in any way, I was just very inspired by a book that had a theme of noble society and tragedy. 

Reflection: In my opinion, I think I did a decent job creating a photomontage especially because I struggled a lot in the begin and I didn't know where to put images and how to arrange them to make them more meaningful. But for the past few weeks, I practised and experimented with different images and arrangements, which all helped toward creating these 3 photomontages. 

Sources: 

https://www.remove.bg/upload

Question: If you were able to create a photomontage what meaning would it have behind it? And how does it connect to you or your culture?

Hannach Höch - Photomontage

Hello everyone! Recently in art, we have been learning about Hannah Höch and what kind of art she does. After finishing the Hannah Höch poster we then had to actually try creating a photomontage. If you don't know what photomontage is, it is where you combine pictures to create a piece of artwork. Here is my artwork:

Hannah Höch - Poster

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, for art we are currently learning about Hannah Höch, what she does and the history behind her unique art style. For our first activity, we had to create a poster about her. We had to include 4 photos of her artwork and 6 things about her. Here is my poster: