Hüseyin Karahan (AKA @hsynkrhn73) made a splash with this jaw-dropping runner-up picture within the Pictures class of 2024’s ViewSonic ColorPro Awards – captured from above with one of many greatest digital camera drones. The aptly entitled ‘Swimming Race’ earned Hüseyin a well-deserved second place within the competitors and I used to be fortunate sufficient to take a seat down with the photographer, who lives in Kocaeli, Turkey, to debate this eye-catching entry.
The ViewSonic Shade Professional Awards is now in its fifth 12 months. The 2024 competitors’s theme was ‘Momentum’, with entrants inspired to discover the that means of the phrase “past bodily movement, delving into emotional and symbolic dimensions”.
Hüseyin captured the picture utilizing a DJI Air 2S drone and a two-stop ND filter. He tells me that he shot at f/2.8 – the drone has a set aperture – and at ISO100. Because of the sunny circumstances, he was nonetheless in a position use a shutter pace of 1/500 sec to freeze the transferring swimmers.
The picture was captured in Turkey’s Kocaeli Bay at 10:51am. He tells me: “Whereas taking the shot, I used to be cautious to shoot from the wrong way of the swimmers swimming. And I made certain to take completely different pictures from completely different angles.”
What actually makes this photograph stand out is that the swimmers are largely captured at equal distances aside. Moreover, the body solely contains the swimmers and the ocean, there is no sand and only a few gaps. The result’s a fractal-like impact that implies the repeating sample of swimmers continues past the body.
“I really like taking pictures with drones, in addition to portrait images. In truth, there is no such thing as a fastened kind of images that I’m solely all in favour of…”
It was Hüseyin’s daughter, Öyküm, that acquired him all in favour of images. “The college my daughter studied at was within the Division of Radio, Tv and Cinema and she or he was all in favour of images. This curiosity in images impressed me vastly and I got interested within the artwork of images.
“I really like taking pictures with drones, in addition to portrait images. In truth, there is no such thing as a fastened kind of images that I’m solely all in favour of… I simply love taking pictures, I care about them.”
You’ll be able to see extra of Hüseyin’s unimaginable work by visiting his Instagram (linked on the prime of this text).
The subsequent ColorPro Awards launches in spring. Discover out extra or observe the competition on Instagram: @colorpro
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