haru sameshima

haru sameshima 

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.

i like the range of photos that iv seen of haru's especially his glass work i also like that he's not just a photographer he has so been things that he does as the old saying goes he wears many hats 

photo response 

this is the photo i want to try and recreate  the glass bottle is in the center of the frame which i find quite nice for this type of photography also its the only thing in the   secan    so you know it's the subject the black back ground looks really nice it gives the bottle substance i think this would have been done on a product table i think there's only 1 light  been used in  this photo  

these are my favorites from my try at recreating the above picture it was fun trying to do these i don't have enough light to get the effect i wanted but they still came out nice i played around with the settings  a bit but my main settings ended up being f/5.6 1/15 iso 100

which is what i used to get the photo of the red cat 

this is my favourite 

im not sure why there's that line of light in this photo but it's nice 

i thought having the pair together would be nice and it seems to work