by Islelanders
I love shooting in shafts of sunlight when indoors, playing with high contrast and deep shadows.I always take manual exposure readings in this sort of situation. Canon EOS-1D Mark II Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L Focal length 20mm Manual Exposure f/8 1/500 sec ISO 200
Categories: Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee • Tags: Malta; refugee; integration, photojournalism
by Islelanders
This was a lucky and hastily grabbed shot as I was walking back to my office from an assignment. Camera was at the ready, as it usually is, I saw what I felt was an interesting scene unfolding in front of me, and I quickly lifted the camera and shot a couple of frames. It’s not perfect, the head of a passer-by in the foreground bothers me a bit, but that’s the sort of thing you’re likely to have to […]
Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, children, Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee • Tags: Malta, Malta; refugee; integration, migration, Photography, photojournalism, police; photography; asylum seekers; Somalia; AFM, somalia
by Islelanders
I was struggling to find something that would make a good picture that was slightly different from the norm as I walked around the World Refugee Day Festival at the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta. It was a bit too early in the evening, things hadn’t really kicked off yet but we needed an early picture for the newspaper. However, a little bit of patience paid off. The interaction between a Maltese woman and an African migrant child was precisely the sort of […]
Categories: children, Living in Malta, photography, Refugee • Tags: asylum seekers; child; Malta;, Malta; refugee; integration
by Islelanders
Rescued The instant I spotted the child with the Smurf backpack on the deck of the AFM ship, I knew that would be the picture that would work best. Whilst taking other pictures, I kept waiting for the moment that he would be carried off the vessel, and positioned myself with that in mind. What I felt made the picture was the dominance of blue – blue Smurf backpack, blue gloves, blue sky. Canon EOS-1D X Canon EF400mm f/2.8L II […]
Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, children, Refugee, Rescue • Tags: child; Armed Forces of Malta; Rescue, Malta, photojournalism, Syria
by Islelanders
Helping hand Canon EOS 1D Mark II Canon EF 70-200mm L/2.8L IS USM Focal length 70mm Aperture Priority f/4 1/1250 sec ISO 200
Categories: Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Refugee • Tags: Malta, migration, Photography, Rescue, somalia
by Islelanders
Waiting Side lighting is always going to look better than direct on-camera flash. I had noticed the colours of these immigrants’ clothing as they stood against the side of a rusting container, and waited for the light of a TV camera off to the side to illuminate them. Very often I find myself waiting for headlamps of passing vehicles to light a scene. Canon EOS 1D Mark II Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 Focal length 50mm Manual exposure f/1.4 1/30 sec […]
Categories: Living in Malta, Malta, Refugee • Tags: Asylum seekers, Malta, migration, Rescue
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