Architectural Splendour Photographic Competition - 1st Place

View all entries click here: "Architectural Splendour" Image Competition

Congratulations to Chris Duncan with this image entitled 'Bir-Hakeim'. Chris from Clichy, France has won 12 month's digital membership to The Society of International Commercial and Industrial Photographers.

Chris gives us some information on his winning image ''About the image. I'm British and living in Paris, only until last week. Now I'm living in Strasbourg. Whilst staying in Paris, I tried to resist temptation to photograph the famous landmarks, as there are so many more interesting hidden gems to photograph instead! I'm largely an amateur street photographer, but I have also dabbled in landscape, architecture and portraiture too. It was during a scouting mission for a fashion shoot that I came across this composition. I had imagined a dark and textured sky would complement the industrial feel of the Bir-Hakeim bridge and the Effiel Tower, so when the rains arrived, I ran to the location, some what late in the afternoon. Using a Nikon D7200 and Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm (15mm equivalent), sat on a well battered Manfrotto tripod, I timed my shot to get a strong composition of the bridge and tower admist the tourists and vehicles. I used an excessively large fstop of f22 at ISO 100 to get the longest exposure possible to ensure the underside of the bridge was exposed correctly and any movement within the frame was blurred. The resulting image even in RAW, was arresting, enhanced by the strong reflections from the wet tarmac. The conversion to black and white is something I take very seriously, so after some work in Photoshop, I was finally happy with the emotion of the image.''

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1st Place see HERE
2nd Place see HERE
3rd Place see HERE
Highly Commended images see HERE