NZPhotographer Issue 29, March 2020

THE LIGHT
F9, 1/125s, IS0200
Sharing My View With The World
by Matt Davey
I
am 29 years old and I have been doing
photography for about 3-4 years. I spend a lot of
my free time out tramping and climbing and after
a while it dawned on me that I see a lot of beautiful
places that not many other people get to see so I
invested some money into a camera and started to
photograph these amazing places.
In my first year of photography I was trying to teach
myself but I wasn’t getting to where I wanted to be
so I signed up for a one night astro-photography
workshop and then a 4 day landscape workshop. I’m
a big believer in surrounding yourself with people that
are better or have more experience than you to get
the best out of yourself.
I try my best to capture a mood or story with my
images and ultimately hope that my photos inspire
people to get out in nature and clear their minds from
daily stresses.
I have a deep love for astrophotography - When
I first started I would just photograph the stars by
themselves but I’ve since discovered that it’s best to
have a subject in the foreground as it makes it more
relatable to the viewer. For my shot of the ‘Church
of Holy Innocents’ I placed my head torch inside the
church on the windowsill which enabled enough light
to shine through on the glass bringing the photo to
life.
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