Twisted

Mar25

And now for something a little bit different…

THE HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTO CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

THE LOW RESOLUTION PHOTO CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

Until next time.

Happy Shooting.

Worldwide Google+ Photographers Photo Competition

Dec22

Another successful worldwide photo competition has finished and the winner has been selected!

The entries into the Google+ Photographers Competition were outstanding! I couldn’t believe the quality of work that was submitted on Google+. Certainly is the best place for photographers. For the full details on how the competition worked click on the banner below:

Now to the important details – the winning image!

The winning photograph was a beautiful black and white photo of a sheep by Gerald Fischer. The post process carried out of the image was superb. Gerald won himself a $100.00 B&H voucher for winning the competition!

Gerald Fischer

The images which made the finalists were:

Helena Martins – Stairs To The Past

Markus Landsmann – The Colognebay

Mathieu Archambault

Máximo Panés – Jump

Micah Burke – Eclipse Montage

All of the finalist photographs were judged on the following criteria. Each photo was awarded a score out of 100 points:

1. (25 points) How creative the photograph is.

2. (25 points) How original the photograph is.

3. (25 points) What the technical photographic quality is like.

4. (25 points) How good is the Post Processing Techniques?

The winner was selected from the highest total combined score from all the judges.

Here are the total scores for the above images:

Do you agree with the judge’s verdict? Lets see what the people’s choice would have been: Vote below in the poll:

The judging of the final image was broadcast LIVE via my YouTube channel. Check out the full recorded On Air Google+ Hangout below and watch what the judges had to say about the image.

A big shout out to all the international judges for their dedication to photography and their time.

Matt Granger – That Nikon Guy , André Appel, Joshua Fisher, Don Noll, Andy Gray, Jack Salzke and Helen Sotiriadis.

If you are an imaging wholesaler or photography store and wish to promote your social media and reach online please get in contact with me via leighdiprosephotography@yahoo.com to find out how I can promote your business through one of my photo competitions.

Until next time – Happy Shooting!

Sony A99 Sample Photo

Oct11

Over the next couple of days I will have a few more photos to post that I captured using the new Sony A99. Of course as always I have styled the jpeg file using Photoshop. Thanks to Sony for an amazing night of photography.

Sony A99 – Sony 28-75mm f2.8 SAM Lens – ISO 160 – 1/60 sec – f2.8

Its back to editing weddings now.

Until next time – Happy Shooting

Sony A99 and Sony NEX 6 Portraits

Oct11

A few hours ago I picked up a few Sony A99’s and Sony NEX 6 cameras.

All these photos are nothing serious just a bit of fun as I wanted to test what the jpeg quality was like. Overall I think the image quality is quite good from the basic file size although I had to do a bit of styling in Photoshop to get the result I wanted.

Sony A99 – Sony 28-75mm f2.8 SAM Lens – ISO 100 – 1/60 sec – f2.8

Sony A99 – Zeiss 24-70mm f2.8 Lens – ISO 1600 – 1/500 sec – f4

Sony A99 – Sony 28-75mm f2.8 SAM Lens – ISO 100 – 1/80 sec – f2.8

Sony NEX-6 – Sony E 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OSS Lens – ISO 3200 – 1/160 sec – f5.0

Darling Harbour Black and White

Sep5

Darling Harbour in beautiful Sydney Australia

Until next time – Happy Shooting.

Dutch Tilt at Cosy Corner

Aug31

Sometimes rules are meant to be broken.

Take this shot for example I deliberately shot this photo with a dutch tilt to enhance the motion of the oncoming wave. If I had photographed this image with a straight horizon the motion of the wave wouldn’t have the same effect. What do you think? Do you think it works without having the horizon straight?