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Photography News Issue 22 absolutephoto.com
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WINNER Best overall image Mark O’Leary
Left Editor Will Cheung offers advice before the Photo 24 crowd head off on their adventure.
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SHORTLISTED Best overall image Mark Stimpson
20 June saw 250 Photography News & Advanced Photographer readers congregate in London for the third Photo 24, a day-long celebration of photography
24 hours of photography on the longest day of the year with a bunch of like-minded folk was the original thinking behind Photo 24. Now in its third year it is more popular than ever with every place taken within hours of the launch. Photo 24 began at a central London hotel at noon on Saturday 20 June and ended the next day, same place, same time. In between there were meet-ups, a trip on the London Eye for sunset, the opportunity to experience a Nikon School taster session and a photo treasure hunt around the capital. It was going to be a busy 24 hours. The weather forecast wasn’t promising. The Met Office said it would be cloudy with some rain and it was spot on. We saw little sun during the whole
24 hours and the challenge was dealing with flat light while the heavy showers made life difficult for our Photo 24ers late Saturday. On the plus side, an anti-austerity march, tens of thousands strong, from the City to the Houses of Parliament made for great photographic opportunities for out Photo 24 attendees. As you can see from the pictures in this feature (and those on absolutephoto.com), our readers revelled in the conditions. We saw many brilliant pictures in our Photo 24 contests. With hundreds of miles walked and many thousands of pictures shot, Photo 24 2015 was a huge success. If you want to be part of 2016’s Photo 24 event look out for details early next year.
The prize for best overall image
Winner Mark O’Leary lands a Nikon D750 and 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 kit worth £2200. The D750 is a full-frame DSLR using a FX-format CMOS sensor giving an impressive 24.3-megapixels of resolution. It can shoot along at 6.5fps, features a tiltable monitor and has full HD movie recording.
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