I am an Aucklander, born and bred and have been a part of the Auckland photography scene since 2014, upon purchasing my first DSLR camera and shooting my first contract with Basketball NZ. Initially, sports photography was my thing. I took pride in getting sharp action shots, as well as capturing the passion and determination on the athlete’s faces in unique sports portrait shots. Composition has always come naturally for me and shooting sports was a great opportunity to highlight that aspect of my photography. I began to grow a following locally, and as my exposure within associations also grew, I was lucky enough to cover multiple National Tournaments around NZ, and multiple basketball tournaments in both the United States and Australia. After I upgraded from a Nikon D<strong>33</strong>00 to a Nikon D500 I began to experiment with different shots, especially long exposures. I began to notice my style becoming more aligned with fine art than sports and I began spending more time off the basketball courts and out in nature. Long exposure was always something I wanted to master as I loved the dreamy water shots and vibrant light trails I saw in other’s images. So, I researched how to perform a long exposure, bought a remote shutter control, learned the correct settings, and went out and practiced. Once I got my head around it and began getting the night-time long exposures I’d dreamed of, I bought an ND Filter and began to tackle daylight long exposure, which I found far more challenging. Sometimes, I still struggle in getting the right settings for a daytime long exposure without blowing the image out but I am content with the quality of the images I am consistently producing using my ND Filter now. I also began practicing with the ever-popular sunset and, as I only shoot in manual mode, I was able to try many different setting combinations before settling on one I was happy with, then as the light changed, I was able to change with it, to ensure adequate exposure. I took hundreds of sunset shots from different angles, and at different beaches, but I became frustrated as they all looked flat and more or less the same. It wasn’t until I really learned, and understood the principals of editing, that my images changed dramatically and the colours really began to pop. BLUE HARBOUR F20, 20s, ISO100 VECTOR COLOURS F13, 13s, ISO200 FAN OF LEAVES F9, 1/1000s, ISO3200 18 <strong>NZPhotographer</strong>
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