NZPhotographer Issue 22, August 2019
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• Canon 5DMk4<br />
• EF 16–35 f/2.8<br />
• EF 50 f/1.4<br />
• EF 85 f/1.8<br />
• EF 100 f/2.8 Macro<br />
• EF 70–200 f/2.8<br />
• EF 2x Converter<br />
• Nisi Filters<br />
• RRS panorama head<br />
Over and above this, I have 2 Godox AD200 studio<br />
lights (the wee ones) while I learn studio portraiture.<br />
WOULD YOU SAY YOU HAVE A CERTAIN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE?<br />
No, I do not believe I have a certain style. I can<br />
never decide which ‘look’ I prefer and so, from<br />
a single shoot, I often produce images that look<br />
totally different; each edit suiting the photograph<br />
but no two photographs looking the same. I look<br />
at other peoples’ work and can see the similarities,<br />
or their signature, but I am still looking for that<br />
something that is uniquely ‘me’.<br />
RICHARD, TELL US WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT<br />
YOU DO...<br />
I work as an Oracle database administrator for<br />
enterpriseIT, a Wellington based IT company with<br />
large ambitions. Outside of work, I am a father<br />
to four boys, ages 9 to 16… who now run for their<br />
lives whenever I bring my camera out. Work keeps<br />
me pretty busy during the week, but when the<br />
weekend rolls around, I like to go and photograph<br />
whatever I can.<br />
SO HOW AND WHEN DID YOUR<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY VENTURE BEGIN?<br />
Photography for me started in 2012 when Instagram<br />
was released on the android platform. My first ever<br />
Instagram photo was of a sock, hanging on the<br />
corner of a washing line. In typical Wellington style,<br />
the sock had blown off by the time I had my phone<br />
ready to take the picture.<br />
Borrowing a DSLR from a friend for a roadie<br />
way back in 2013, I developed a penchant for<br />
photographing abandoned buildings. Purchasing<br />
TELL US ABOUT YOUR GEAR…<br />
I have been quite lucky with the camera gear<br />
that I have had over the years. Moving from a<br />
cellphone, my father bought me my first DSLR, a<br />
Canon 60D in 2014. I had two kit lenses with this<br />
camera, an 18–55 and a 55–250mm. Riiiight up<br />
until water entered the camera body while I was<br />
shooting my son on the high ropes at his school<br />
camp (he did very well by the way!).<br />
Insurance came to the party at this point with<br />
a replacement Canon 70D which I augmented<br />
with an EF-S10–<strong>22</strong>mm wide angle lens. This combo<br />
lasted three years and thousands of k’s until my<br />
grandfather passed away. My grandfather was<br />
an exceptional man and in his infinite wisdom he<br />
left some money to each of his grandchildren,<br />
enough to begin quite a nice kit so this is what I am<br />
currently shooting with:<br />
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