Innehållsförteckning för November-December 2016 från Capture

Compiling The Annual each year is without a doubt both my most and least favourite endeavour. Each year, we invite professional, emerging, and student photographers from Australia and around the world to make submissions of their six strongest images created over the preceding 12 months. As usual, the work was strong, making the task of reducing thousands of images down to the ones you see in this very special edition as challenging as always. Photographers are renowned for being a little lax with deadlines, and every year dozens fail to get their submissions in on time. Thankfully, here at Capture we don’t mind extending the odd deadline as long as the appropriate late fee is paid. Those making a submission after the initial deadline are expected to make a donation…

Searching for a style The trend in style, noted in 2015, that embraces a more ‘authentic’ type of image for advertising campaigns shows no signs of abating. Scott Dettrick, a senior creative at The Monkeys agency, in Sydney, explains this style in terms of the number of images consumers are exposed to on social media. “The average person now sees so many images every day,” he says. “If an image feels fake, it tends to get rejected. People like to feel the image depicts a real experience.” San Francisco-based photographer Leigh Beisch agrees. “What I’m seeing in the US market is that it’s about photography looking more authentic,” she says. Beisch says that some of the images used in food advertising are inspired by blogger or editorial photos. “The commercial…

1WARREN FREY Roadblock. A fire crew in the middle of a fire-ravaged area of the Arthur Pieman Conservation Area, Tasmania. 2 PETA NORTH Stopped for Lunch. 3 LEE DUGUID Kerlingarfjöll, Iceland. 4 CHIS BURKARD Aerial perspective of the braided glacier rivers located in the interior of Iceland. 5 JOSSELIN CORNOU One long, long trail. Lagunas de los Tres, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. 1 PAUL HOELEN Green Nebula. Retouchers: Scott McCook, Adam Williams. 2 JANNICK CLAUSEN Broken Barcode. 3 STUART WESTMORE Vault. 4 PAMELA PAULINE Lone Tree and Cheetah. Created after a trip to Botswana in December 2015.…

1 DARRIAN TRAYNOR Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a backhand in his fourth round match against Gilles Simon of France during day seven of the 2016 Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Agency: Getty Images. 2 ASANKA RATNAYAKE Pole Vaulter. A silhouette of a pole vaulter who failed to clear the bar in the women’s pole vault during the IAAF World Challenge Athletics event at Lakeside Stadium. Client: Photosport. 3 KRYSTLE WRIGHT The Shot. Client: Canon Australia. Rush Sturges launches his kayak over Spirit Falls in Washington. Flash was hung from a drone. 4 TED GRAMBEAU Personal work. Shadow Boxing. Documenting behind the scenes for the fashion blog, The Lane, led to more personal work and interpretations of a way of life in Cuba.…

1 JULIA NANCE Jonathan. “Stacked from over 80 macro images and stitched from nine panoramas, this is the third image from a series about love, with each image representing the love I have/have had for a particular person.” 2 ROY GOUTAM Brick factory. Part of a project photographing migration, and its cause and effects. Factory work is 12 hours per day for 6-7 days a week. 3 BARON WALTON Organic. Tour poster artwork for comedian, Arj Barker. 4 ANGIE CONNELL The Ratty Trapeze Artists, from the series, The Carnival of Fur and Four Legs. 5 IAN FLANDERS Untitled, from the series, Death Rite. Shot at Pashupatinath Temple, located on the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal.…

Among shifting trends to darker and moodier imagery, new gear with more than enough megapixels, and photographers going viral on social media, there is no doubt that the wedding and portrait industry has become even more saturated during 2016. An online search for wedding or portrait photographers brings up hundreds of thousands of ‘professionals’ offering their services for free, or next to nothing. While the culture of photographers undercutting is nothing new, it is a culture unknown to clients. Ever since smartphones allowed the masses to take selfies and ruin every shot you took of the bride and her father walking down the aisle, an idea has entered our collective consciousness: photos are free. Canadian wedding photographer, Gabe McClintock thinks that this is because photography has become a lot more…

The market Oversaturation of the market shows no sign of abating. Greater demand for additional content with photographers expected to produce video as well. Strong approach taken by clients to try and drive down photography costs. Continued growth and popularity of aerial photography. Agencies are moving a majority of their productions in-house. Photographers are expected to provide images for social media in addition to original brief. Clients commissioning imagery for social media advertising. Far more professionals are pushing workshops and seminars as part of their business model. Instagrammers with large followings are being commissioned to shoot campaigns regardless of their professional experience. Digital-only packages are becoming the norm for wedding clients over prints and albums. Increasingly, portrait studios are providing digital files only. Continued significant growth in the areas of…

Why Do We Calibrate? There are many reasons for calibrating a monitor for editing your photographs: • To more accurately display your image on a single screen or across multiple monitors; • To adhere to ISO standards, codes of practice, and workflow protocols; • To match the screen image to its printed image; • We also regularly re-calibrate to ensure the monitor’s brightness, colour temperature, and tonal rendering remains unchanged over time. Hardware Calibration All ColorEdge monitors contain a special graphics chip (ASIC) that has been designed and patented by EIZO. The ASIC is the ‘brains’ of the monitor, containing an enormous 16-bit look-up table, or a 278 trillion colour palette. [Actually it’s (2^16)^3 = 281 trillion colours.] Hardware calibration adjusts this internal look-up table so as to produce a…

1 SCOTT NEWETT “Don’t ignore a cough, Prospan it.” Client: Flordis Agency: Affinity advertising Creative Director: Marcus Tesoriero Art Director: Nick Brown Retoucher: Limehouse creative 2 JOHN FULTON Jumanji Client: SEWE Agency: Obviouslee Marketing Creative/Art Director: Will Bullock 3 ANDREAS BOMMERT Client: Bank of South Australia Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Art director: Simon: O’Neil Creative Directors: Flavio Fonseca, Pierre Ruzzene Retoucher: Mark Sterne 4 MARC LECUREUIL Relentless Improvement Client: Optus Agency: The Works, Sydney Creative Director: Kevin Macmillan Retoucher: Limehouse creative 5 STEVE GREENAWAY Brady Bunch – Travis the Stray Agency: JWT Client: Sydney Dogs and Cats Home…

1 PAUL BARSON Lay Me Down. Fallen tree in Autumn leaves. 2 KRYSTLE RICCI Washing Day. Pants are optional on most days, especially washing day. 3 TRACY BOTICA Portrait. 4 BARBARA WILK Clouds are rolling in, and a few snowflakes in the air add to the great moody moment in Lofoten Islands, Norway. 5 DEB YOUNG + FRANCISCO DIAZ The Sack Race 1, from The Playground Series. 1TONY EVANS 48-image panorama of Chelsey and Rob in the desert outside Las Vegas on their wedding day. 2 MIEKE BOYNTON Aurora Borealis. The Nordlys over the Lyngenalps in Spåkenes, Norway.  3CRAIG JEFFRIES Sugar Pines. Laurel Hill, Bago State Forest, NSW. Stitched from six separate images.…

Photojournalism in 2016 could perhaps be summed up by one image made this year. The dazed expression of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sitting in the back of an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria stands at once as a symbol of our growing inurement to war, but the images of the boy that captured hearts around the world also re-validated the power of the photograph in what seems like a sea of conflict images. Equally significant to the photographic ethos was World Press Photo’s inaugural State of News Photography report that revealed a swath of discrepancies in ethical practice along with several issues of underrepresentation. The launch of Instagram Stories and its swift addition to the news media’s quiver of dissemination methods saw a new paradigm for real-time storytelling. And…

1 SEAN IZZARD Portrait of Christopher Walken shot while on assignment in New York City. 2 STEVE WISE Personal work. The Arm. 3 SIMON HARSENT Personal work. Portrait of Austrian artist, Herman Nitsch. 4 BILL GEKAS Personal work. Coastal Gatherer. Classically influenced lit location portrait. 5 KEREN DOBIA Commissioned. Polar Explorer. Creative portrait of Australian photographer, Joshua Holko. Creative Direction/Set build and Design: Keren Dobia. Retoucher: Keren Dobia. 1 JANYON BOSHOFF Personal work. Grandmother and Boy. Captured while observing a Muslim family break the fast during Ramadan. 2 LINDA BEKS Naughty dog pet portrait shoot for the book, Best Friends. 3 SHANNON COTTERILL The Flower Project. 16 women from 20 – 70 years. Pre-children/Natural childbirth/ Caesarean/IVF. A celebration of the female form. “This area is what makes us innately female.…

1 JOHANNES REINHART Silent Scream. Kids mesmerised by mermaid, Tina Tuna, at Perth Fringe Festival. 2 AMY SHIRE Pencil Grip. “My son practised writing his name on the sand with a beautiful feather. He usually struggled with his pencil grip, but in nature everything comes more easily.” 3 GRISELDA SAN MARTIN The Wall – Jose and Susana. Jose Marquez poses for a photograph that a visitor is taking of his family on the other side of the border wall that separates Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego. Marquez has not been able to hug his daughter Susana in 14 years, since he was deported from the United States after living and working in San Diego for 18 years. 4 PETA NORTH Bowls, from a series that is an aerial perspective of…

1 ELLEN DUFFY Field of Dreams. 2 GITTE MEEUSSEN Off the Beaten Path. Couple on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Fiji. 3 JEROME COLE Hiding between the sparkly trees. 4 ROPATE KAMA Misty Mountains. Fiji Islands. “One of the days when it can’t stop raining. But it doesn’t dampen your spirits.” 5 ERIC RONALD Kelly and Luke at sunset on a dirt road near Geelong, Victoria. 1 KELLY TUNNEY The wedding of Sera and Pat. 2 LARA HOTZ Dominique. Dominique Choy sitting on the stairs of The Swift Mansion, Darling Point, NSW. 3 MADELINE DRUCE Wedding celebration, Maine, USA. 4 LUCY SPARTALIS A Mind of its Own. 5 GABRIEL VEIT Cuddles under the treehouse. Shot at the wedding of Linda and Adam.…