UPY 2024

UPY 2018 Wide Angle - Highly Commended
'The real illusion'
Konstantin Killer

In my style I put great emphasis on the model and on the background. Everything together must build a perfect picture. A picture must be able to tell a story and have a special effect. Another special feature is the effect lighting with underwater flashes which distinguish my photos from others. I love challenges and especially difficult shots. Most photographers are afraid of these challenges but I'm pretty good here, and this is exactly where I want to be. "Only your own Imagination sets the limit to possibilities"! I am working according to this motto.
A photo shoot in 7 meters deep, in a diving pool Dive4Life Siegburg, Germany.

Judge's comment: I am not a natural fan of model photography underwater but the scale and confidence of this shot from the set to the lighting and the model's pose was hard to ignore.
Peter Rowlands