Colour Wheel

10.7.2014, week 14
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram(0320027)
Principles of Design
Assignment 3: Colour Wheel

On the previous week, Ms. Lisa had told us to formed a group of 5 people in one group. Since our class is 37, we divided ourselves into 5 group consisting of 5 people and 2 groups consisting of 6 people. However, there were a problem with splitting the groups, so we ended up randomize the whole class to make it fair.

My group members:
1.Katrina
2.Yasmin
3.Tia Nellisa(me)
4.Mahbuba
5.Jing bo


For today class, Ms. Lisa wanted to see the idea sketches, as usual.

Our sketches ideas:

In the end, Ms.Lisa choose our "Eye of Colours" using kolam technique.

Our progression:

(All of the photo are credits to Katrina)

Thanks you Katrina for arranging the colours for us to paint the rice

I'm teaching them how to do the colour rice technique

 Sticking the base together for the eye

 Added the sclera for the eye

Spraying the paper plates

 Arranging the eyelashes

 Jing Bo paste all the eyelashes together

 First attempt of melting the crayon technique : Fail

(By Katrina)

After I helped her, it finally worked out

 Arranging the crayons

Now for the fun part, melting the crayons!! 

We took turns melting the crayons as it was very tiring. 

Final work:

Materials used:
Eris= Coloured Rice

Sclera= Polystyrene(cut into chunks)

Eyelashes= Paper Plates spray with black paint and Feathers from a feather duster 

Tears= Crayons 

Extra= Black Tissue paper

The eye represent what we see around us. The world is not in black and white, it filled with so much colours and emotion. The tears on the the other hand was a symbol of happiness, because not all tears are related to sadness.  

After seeing others group work, I feel like it would be better if our work is in 3D as well.
However, I was quite satisfied with what it look like in the end.

Good work everyone and thank you Katrina for all the pictures!

Final 5 Pictures for the Project - Theme Based and Rationalet (week 16)

25.7.14, Week 16
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (0320027)
Introduction to Photography
Final 5 Pictures for the Project and Rationale

Final 5 pictures for the project. Theme: Nature (Trees)

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/125, ISO: 200

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/800, ISO: 400

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/320, ISO: 800

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/1600, ISO: 400

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/640, ISO: 200

A Vision of Beauty

About The Photographer:

Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (born November 1996, Malaysia) a student who’s studying Foundation in Design at Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. I was interested in photography since I was little because I love capturing those beautiful moments as a token of the memories itself. There are times that I think that photos speak louder than words. Even though I love photography, I always used the auto scene for shooting and joining this class really helps me a lot. To be able learning even deeper knowledge about the photography, I’m really glad I took this class. 

About The Photographs:

The theme I choose for this project is trees. The reason why I choose this theme is because it’ll show others how beautiful nature really is. Since most of the people around us always focus on the beauty of flowers, I want something different. “Why don’t I use trees instead?” I told myself. This particular theme was not as easy as I thought it would be. I was trouble at first but Mr. Vinod told me to never give up and keep going forward. It makes me realize that he was right and took up his advice. 

The first photo was a bit tricky as I would a need specific time to get this shoot. I need to find a suitable angle to make the outline of the leaf seem as if it’s glowing. I also need to know the background at the same time because having a noisy background wouldn’t bring out the best of this photo; however it depends on what kind of environment as well. To be able to catch the sunlight shines makes the photo even more interesting and it bring out the beauty of photography itself. 

The second photo was the hardest because I need to tilt the camera about 95 degree. Since the tree was quite short, making it even harder as I can’t see through my viewfinder. It was not easy to get the same shoot over and over again with this method as I require a tripod to do so. I also had to move around the tree to find a nice angle with the branches. I also use the element of perspective into this photo.

The third photo was what we usually see when looking up the sky while surrounding with trees. For this particular photo, I had to set my ISO level higher than usual to get the effect of a high contrast between the sky and the tree branches. It might look quite messy from other point of view but I like this photo because it’s very abstract-looking.

The forth photo has the same method as the third photo, looking up towards the sky. This particular tree has less leaves than other trees, I’m not quite sure whether if it’s dying or just in its normal state, but I love how it turn out in the end. 

Last but not least, the fifth photo was more about the texture of the tree since its leaves were different from rest of my series. I also like how the natural lights shine on the surface of the leaves making the texture even more stand out. 

As a conclusion, I think this theme was quite challenging for me as I was more of an indoor person and I hardly went out adventuring. I wanted to try something different and that’s one of the reasons why I choose this theme in the first place. In the end, I had so much fun being adventures and it was a great experience for me.

(Screen Shots)Hardcopy of Exercise:

Reflection:

Experience:

At first, I wanted more time for this project but Mr. Vinod said that it’ll disorganize with other deadlines of our finals assignment. So, I tried my hardest to take a few more shots and add some into my final 5 chosen photo for this project assignment. In the end, I was quite glad with the outcome but sometimes I wondered if I had more time, it would be even better, is what I thought. Writing the rationale was quite confusing at first because I have no clue how to do it. After some research and reading the example, I managed to do it. I wasn’t quite sure about my title of my final 5 series to be. I wanted to put something with a ‘Nature’ word but in the end, I choose a title that can relates with the purpose of my theme instead. I wanted others to see how beautiful the trees are, like how I see with my own eyes. To be able to capture that and share with others makes me happy.

Observation:

I notice that this project makes my photography skills better than before, and not just me, but also my other course mates as well. Seeing others photos makes me want to try my hardest as well. It gave me motivation and advice from Mr. Vinod helps a lot. The rationale wasn’t an easy task, but to be able to finish it make me realize that, how did I manage to do that. The first try, I kind of wrote too many words and I have to edit it. It made me realize that, keeping it short and simple is important.

Findings:

Picking 5 photos for the final series and writing the rationale was a new experience to me. I would have never thought that we would need to write a rationale like that. I just hope that it can be accepted. On the submission day, we would need to hand in our hardcopy and I hope I won’t miss anything. Double checking is also important. 

Progression on Project - Theme Based (week 15)

18.7.14, Week 15
Tia Nellisa Binti Noor Badrol Akram (0320027)
Introduction to Photography
Studio Lighting (Soft Box and Beauty Plate) and Progression on Project - Theme Based

Lecture:

In today class, Mr. Vinod taught us how to the studio flash lights.
Before we start, he carries a black box, and told us that this is used as the power source of the flash lights. He shows us how to plug it in and what each of the buttons is for. He also did mention about a device to plug it in into the camera as the connecter with the flash lights. Not every camera has the socket for it, however, there’s this little device Mr. Vinod show us that can be used as the connector of the flash lights. After explaining, Mr. Vinod becomes the model for our exercise for a while. After that, we started shooting others of our classmates. Mr. Vinod even helps us with our group shoot photo together before we clean up the studio. Then, we all gather in the center and show him our test print photo. He also gave us some feedbacks along the way. After all the issue with Photoshop, burning the cd and hardcopy was done, class was dismissed.

Ungraded Exercise: Studio Lighting (Soft Box and Beauty Plate)
Mr. Vinod and some of the volunteers

Aperture: 16, Shutter Speed: 1/25, ISO: 3200

That's a wrap!

Final 5 pictures for the project. Theme: Nature (Trees)

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/125, ISO: 200

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/800, ISO: 400

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/320, ISO: 800

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/1600, ISO: 400

Aperture: F5.6, Shutter Speed: 1/640, ISO: 200

(Screen Shots)Hardcopy of Exercise:

Reflection:
Experience:
Early in the morning, Mr. Vinod asks everyone ‘Why everyone looked dead?’ I’m not even sure but I think it’s because of a lot of assignment we needed to get it done with for finals. Since our studio lighting was done last week, most of us thought that we’re not going use our camera for today, but then Mr. Vinod said that we going to learn how to use the flash light. We were quite worried that Mr. Vinod would get angry with us, so we ask for those who haven’t arrived yet to bring the camera. It was a miracle that Imani, my course mates, actually bought her camera and with that we are ready to start with this exercise. During experimenting with the flash lights, I manage to learn how to plug in another cable into the black box and as I volunteer it myself. At first I was confused but it’s actually not really that hard. Mr. Vinod volunteered himself to become the model of the day so that everyone will understand how it was done. Later on, we have about 3 flash lights, 2 at the sides and one at the center, just behind the photographer. Some of us become the models for a while and change photographer. After that, we all took a group photo, thanks to Mr. Vinod, even thought we wanted him to join the shoot as well.
As for the test printing for the final design, most of us went to the printing shop together and got our prints yesterday. There were a lot of problem we face that day and I begin to become irritated but in the end everything settles right. We show our test print to Mr. Vinod today and he approved it. He even gave us feedbacks of our photo for this week.
With regards of the project assignment, I try to take a few new shots for one last time. I wanted to take even and explore more after fasting, but the submission is next week (week 16). I just had to try my best and I took quite a longer time to actually pick out my final 5 photos.

Observation:
From what I observed, I realize that flash lights can also use like normal studio lighting as well. It was quite amazing at the same time as different lighting can be used as the same thing. When we did a rim light effect at Mr. Vinod, I was quite amaze by the outcome. Then, I found out there’s a tool for estimating the amount of lights used by each of the flash lights, so that it’ll help us to actually balanced the lights since not every light source have an equal amount. Since there was a lot of wires used for the flash lights, we need to be extra careful not the tripped it over.
As for the test print we did, I realize that we need to understand how it was done and make sure to double check the photos again. I don’t want to repeat the same thing again later onwards in the future. It’s great that this is only for test print.
Regarding the final photos of my project assignment, there’s another thing we need to do rather than taking photos, we need to explain why we choose this theme and so on; a rationale. It’s similar with other classes that we need to speak up about our work.

Findings:
On yesterday trip to the printing shop with my course mates and today’s class, I learn that we need to be prepared on everything. For the printing shop, we need to be careful with our photos, the boarder frame, size and quality. As for the today, we need at least someone to take turn on bring a camera for the whole class or asked Mr. Vinod beforehand. It seems like everyone become a bit stressful as finals are approaching near and we have a lot of assignment needed to be done. Even some of us came to the studio on weekends to do the assignment. It’s tough but we would need to learn how to manage our time more carefully.