Skypixel Proclaims Winners of eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby
At the moment, SkyPixel introduced the winners of its eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest. This 12 months’s contest, co-organized with DJI, obtained over 65 thousand submissions – a 120% improve from final 12 months’s occasion. The theme of this 12 months’s contest, “The Story Behind,” urged customers to share what mattered to them most via each their submissions and the reflections shared on their submission web page.
The eighth Annual Picture & Video Contest was assessed by a Judging Panel of trade professionals together with Claudio Miranda (Academy Award-winning cinematographer), Anne Farrar (Assistant Managing Editor of Images for Nationwide Geographic Journal), Phil Pastuhov (Director of Cinematography for movies akin to The Lord of the Rings), Hasselblad Grasp Benjamin Everett, Air Pixels founder Tobias Hägg, photographer George Steinmetz, Director of Images Toby Robust, cinematographer Jingping Yu, and photographer Wang Ning.
This 12 months’s video judging panel selected Bashir Abu Shakra’s “Why I Journey the World Alone,” an autobiographical brief movie 4 years within the making that mixes sweeping mountaintop landscapes with Shakra’s childhood household recordings to share his private journey. Decide Jingping Yu recommended Shakra, stating that he “Cares in regards to the magnificence in entrance of him, but additionally locations his braveness and bravado in it, and the peak is now not restricted to the magnificence in entrance of him. There’s magnificence within the dialogue he’s having with himself.”
“Lots of of items of footage needed to be compressed into solely 4 minutes of video,” mentioned Shakra. “In such huge initiatives, endurance is the important thing. I stored my finest pictures unpublished for years ready for the entire challenge to be accomplished. I even needed to take semesters off in faculty simply to have the ability to journey and full this challenge, however that’s how a lot I believed in it.”
This 12 months’s photograph judging panel selected Khánh Phan’s “Floral Gown,” a chicken’s-eye portrait of two ladies in a pond amassing a harvest of water lilies, with white and magenta blooms forming a floating floral costume. “A near-perfect shade scheme with pretty waves of flowers transferring throughout the body, this lovely picture is so well-composed and balanced, it brings a way of magnificence and tranquility,” mentioned Decide Anne Farrar.
Phan captured the photograph in her hometown of Lengthy An, Vietnam, with the objective of sharing a convention of her ancestors. “They’ve labored as water lily pickers for a few years, having realized the craft from their moms and grandmothers. I consider these ladies are most lovely when working as a result of labor creates worth and happiness,” defined Phan. “In addition they let me categorical my mission to create what is tough to think about, and I’m actually grateful to them.”
As Annual Finest Work winners, Shakra and Phan will every obtain over USD $15K in prizes, together with the Hasselblad 907X Anniversary Version Equipment, a trophy, and award certificates. The SkyPixel contest additionally awarded a number of different winners in each classes. High 10 Picture and High 10 Video winners will every obtain the DJI Mavic 3 Fly Extra Combo (DJI RC Professional) or its DJI Credit score equal, a trophy, and award certificates, with a complete worth of USD $4048. The ten Nominated Prizes will every obtain the Osmo Motion 3 Journey Combo and award certificates, with a complete worth of USD $439. Lastly, the ten Folks’s Alternative Prizes will every obtain the Osmo Cell 6 and award certificates, with a complete worth of USD $159.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
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