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DID YOU MAKE IT? 76 READER IMAGES SHORTLISTED IN NEW ZEALAND’S TOP AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

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SHOOTING THE DIVERSE FACES OF NEW ZEALAND PRO TECHNIQUES FOR SEQUENCING IMAGES SECRETS OF A SIX TIME PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR HOW TO BRING PORTRAITS ALIVE IN PHOTOSHOP ISSUE 86

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FEATURES

14 Profile | Tony Carter 26 Focus | Nando Azevedo 38 Assignment | Esther Bunning 50 Folio | Fiona Pardington

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62 Sequencing for photography 70 Portrait variations | Ian Rotherham 74 Recording and applying actions | Gee Greenslade

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78 Explained | Mirrorless cameras 80 Review | Huawei P20 Pro 82 Buyers guide | Travel photography 90 Gearducated | Smartphone scanner and bokeh lens

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10 Gallery | Your shots 94 Gallery | Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year shortlist 97 Gallery | I Am New Zealand 98 News | Infocus photography convention 100 Exhibition review | Kate van der Drift 101 News | PSNZ Central Regional Convention 102 Calendar | Upcoming events 7

PROFILE | TONY CARTER

have the camera pointed at her — her friends were egging her on a bit.”

Not content to wow judges with portraits alone, Tony also included two landscape shots in this year’s Iris entries. One from Delhi — the stark graphics of birds against the 22

sky — and one taken during a sperm-whale stranding on a Taranaki beach. The beach shot was made around 7am on a cold winter morning, with the photographer having to wade waist-deep into freezing water.

“I did a whole series of images with very,

TONY CARTER, BRONZE AWARD, LANDSCAPE CATEGORY, 2018 IRIS AWARDS, NIKON D810, 50MM, 1/800S, F/18, ISO 500

very slow exposures, down to a quarter of a second,” says the photographer. “I was just holding onto the tripod for dear life, capturing the water going in and rolling back out, trying to capture some feeling.”

And capture some feeling he did, with

the beached whale sitting moodily amid a remarkably cohesive set of six champion images. Despite having succeeded in the personal challenge that he set for himself, Tony isn’t sure he’ll be entering the Iris Awards again next year: “It might be like 23

FOCUS | NANDO AZEVEDO

C RE ATIVE CO N SC I EN C E We often talk of ‘taking’ photos, but how can photographers give back? Nando Azevedo explores that question through a career capturing injustice, protest, reform, and resettlement WO RD S | Q IANE M ATATA-S IPU

NANDO AZEVEDO, ZHIYAN FROM THE RESETTLEMENT PORTRAITS, HASSELBLAD H4D-31, 135MM, 1/60S, F/6.3, ISO 100 26

ASSIGNMENT | ESTHER BUNNING

C ALL O F TH E W I LD One of the country’s leading portrait photographers has recently made an abrupt pivot in subject matter, from people to an equine focus. Esther Bunning tells us how galloping away from portraits has helped save her relationship with the genre

WO RD S | AD RIAN HAT W E L L

ESTHER BUNNING, FROM THE ARTFUL FILLY, NIKON D850, 20MM, 11/250S, F/6.3, ISO 500

ESTHER BUNNING, KAIMANAWA HORSES, FROM THE ARTFUL FILLY, NIKON D850, 500MM, 1/1000S, F/9, ISO 320

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FOLIO | FIONA PARDINGTON

BETWIXT Fiona Pardington, one of Aotearoa’s foremost photographic artists, interrogates the space between the living and the dead in her occult-informed new series Midnight at the Crossroads WO RD S | AD RIAN HAT W E L L

You may bury my body down by the highway side I don’t care where you bury my body when I’m dead and gone You may bury my body down by the highway side So my old evil spirit can take the Greyhound bus and ride — Robert Johnson, Me and the Devil Blues

FIONA PARDINGTON, SUSPECT DEVICE 2017, PIGMENT INKS ON HAHNEMÜHLE PHOTO RAG

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