My name is Christian Fletcher. I'm a landscape photographer.
I've been photographing for over 24 years.
In that time I have seen a lot of changes in the industry. Changes in camera technology.
I am currently shooting with the IQ2 system from Phase One
and I have always strived to get the best imagery I can.
Having the best camera helped me achieve those goals.
I live in the South West of Western Australia in a town called Dunsborough.
Down on the South West we have some of the most amazing scenery in the world.
We probably have the best beaches in the world. We have got the bluest water and whitest sands.
We have green rolling hills; we have amazing forests and rugged coastlines, huge swells.
It is an incredible place to photograph.
Photography to me has been a lifelong passion.
I started out when I was fifteen with a little camera.
It was a Rollei SL35 and that camera got me hooked on photography.
I do different types of landscape photography.
There is your traditional nature-based photography and there is also the altered stuff I like to do,
so the urban, anything that has been touched by man, industrial.
I enjoy that sort of work as well.
More recently, I have been doing lots of aerial photography.
The IQ280 is brilliant for aerial photography.
With 80 megapixel you have the ability to create huge prints.
In my gallery we have prints that are up to 60x80 inches.
And the detail that you still retain making such a huge print is incredible.
That is why I had to go medium format and that's why I chose a Phase One
because it's giving me the most megapixels of any camera, lots of dynamic range
and the ability to capture the detail like I have never seen before.
I like to shoot straight down when I'm photographing the landscape from the air.
For me it becomes more of an abstract. You don't have the horizon,
it could be anything, you are looking down on a pattern or shape, a design that is totally foreign.
It doesn't even look like it is from this planet on some occasions.
It can look like an alien landscape.
I use Capture One for my RAW processing with the Phase One files.
I find Capture One is incredible with colour.
The most amazing RAW processor I've used in that respect.
With Capture One Pro 8 now being released I find that works even better with colour.
Opened up a file and it had just a little bit more going on, also the new features with high dynamic range,
improved luminance, noise reduction, the new clarity method called natural which I really like.
It has also got the new black and white tool which allows you to make
more aggressive adjustments to the file without introducing noise.
A lot of the time in the past I would bracket my exposures
but with the high dynamic range tool and with the Phase One IQ system there is no need to bracket.
You pretty much have all the information there you just need to pull it out in the RAW software.
So I'm still working on Capture One 8 and I'm learning things as I go.
It has got a new interface that looks slightly different.
Everything works the same. things are still in the same spot, but it has a cool, new, interesting look to it.
My passion for photography has been going on for over 30 years now
and it will go on for another 30 years. As long as I'm alive I will be taking photographs.
The thought of ever retiring just doesn't enter my mind.