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The EPSON International Pano Awards
Ganadores 2015!
Ver todos los ganadores: https://thepanoawards.com/2015-winners-gallery/
60 países representados, 1.055 fotógrafos, 4.345 imágenes
The 2015 Open Photographer of the Year is...
Max Rive - 'The Ice Prison'
'This 6 shot panorama was taken in the Himalayas during spring. It was a small distant gape in a snow covered mountain which caused my attention. I mainly wanted to check it out because this ice or snow cave had a view on the 6812 meter high Ama Dablam. Finding a cave is one difficult thing but find one with a great view is much more difficult. After a hike up the mountain with crampons I entered this Ice cave. It was frozen water finding a way through the rocks.
The composition you see with a view both on the left and the right chamber was very difficult to achieve. The camera was almost put inside a small hole in the wall. Using a tripod was not possible. After shooting the right part with my face just outside the frame I had to switch sides to do the same with the center and the left part. It was a matter of trial and error to get the composition I wanted. The required use of photo stitching made everything even more difficult. It was later that night I discovered that a lot of individual shots were out of focus or unsharp because of camera movement. During both the 2nd and 3rd try the mountain Ama Dablam was totally covered in clouds. My 4th attempt was successful even though I still had to do a lot of blending in photoshop. Without the blending this shot was technically not possible.'
The 2015 Open Photographer of the Year runner-up is...
Darren Moore - 'Tower'
'Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Built in 1799 the tower stands majestically, 1000 ft. above sea level, one of the highest points in the county. I wanted to create a fairy tale atmosphere with this image, it took a number of visits over a 6 month period to get the low cloud and morning mist, but the end result was worth all the early starts, as the image turned out exactly how i imagined it.'
The 2015 Amateur Photographer of the Year is...
Mateusz Piesiak - 'Phantoms of the Morning'
'When the ponds are being drained, thousands of birds are gathering around, because of a great occasion to eat fish. I woke up before the sunrise, hid myself in the reeds and waited in silence for birds. After some time the first egrets and gulls started to appear in the distance. It was still very dark so my exposure time was pretty long. Suddenly an eagle appeared on the horizon. All gulls lifted off while the egrets were standing still and motionless.'
The 2015 Amateur Photographer of the Year runner-up is...
John Finnan - 'Foggy Sunrise at Wallaces Hut'
'This is Wallace`s Hut on the Bogong High Plains near Falls Creek.
I arrived here in the moonlight the previous night to shoot and explore the scene. I returned as the moonset in the morning hoping the sun would rise through the fog but it was too thick initially. I raced over as it started to break through and then came the colour. I remember being quite excited realising what I was capturing. I have dreamed of capturing this for years and now to share it with the world.'
The 2015 VR Photographer of the Year is...
Dmitriy Moiseenko - 'Kliuchevskaia Sopka'
'I have had an eye on Kluchevskaya Sopka volcano since quite a long time ago. The volcano has a very beautiful, ideal conical shape. Moreover, it is not just the highest erupting mountain in Eurasia, but in the whole world with the only exception of South America. This giant erupts once in a couple of years and this show lasts up to two or three months. On the 1st January 2015 a new eruption occurred. AirPano team had never taken the decision to go on expedition so quickly: everyone agreed at once that we should go. We also decided to squeeze the monthly work plan into one helicopter flight session: beginning with documentary photos and ending with the stabilized 360 and 4k video, not speaking about usual for AirPano spherical panoramic photos.
The 2015 Jeff Mitchum Fine Art Prize winner is...
Carlos F. Turienzo - 'Lighting the Way'
'This photo was taken last June at Punta Nariga Lighthouse, which is located in a zone known as 'Coast of Death', in Galicia, Spain. It was planned several months ago when I realised that the Milky Way would be just above the light beams of the lighthouse at the beginning of the summer. It was not easy to take the photos for the pano due to weather conditions, I can still feel the heavy wind of that night, but finally I could find a relatively well protected spot and everything went fine.'
The 2015 EPSON Digital Art Prize winner is...
Darren Moore - 'Curvature'
'Felixstowe, United Kingdom
There are several of these fascinating curved sea defences in this area, which are unique to this stretch of coastline. You have to wait for calm conditions and a spring high tide to
get them fully submerged and isolated. This is a 150 second exposure using a 10 stop neutral density filter, which completely smoothed out the sea, thick fog helped remove
the horizon line and create an ethereal effect.'
The 2015 Highest Scoring Gigapixel image is...
Wojciech Kruczynski - 'Helvete'
The 2015 Highest Scoring Film Capture is...
Sajeesh Shanmughan - 'Foggy Dubai Marina'
