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NZ Aria 2017 finalists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night was the finals of the NZ Aria 2017. This one of the annual photographic jobs that I look forward to and was the 9th time I have covered the event. As always it was an excellent evening of music with fabulous talent on display backed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra<\/a> conducted by Maestro Johannes Fitsch.<\/p>\n

The winner was Jarvis Dams who I have photographed as a finalist a number of times and who started competing at the NZ Aria as a boy soprano. It has been great to see him develop and I expected him to do well after having heard him in rehearsal in the afternoon. His performance of Puccini’s Questo amor<\/em> was beautiful and well deserving of the win.<\/p>\n

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Jarvis Dam , winner of the NZ Aria 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Second place went to Monyoung Jang’s moving performance of Gounod’s, Ah! Je veux vivre . <\/em><\/p>\n

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Moonyoung Jang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Third place went to Boyd Owen singing Puccini’s Che gelida manina. <\/em>I have photographed Boyd in previous finals and his placing was well deserved. If he returns again it wouldn’t surprise me to see him as the winner.<\/p>\n

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Boyd Owen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Guest artist was previous NZ Aria winner, Jud Arthur who performed a number of classical musical numbers including Old Man River<\/em> and the Gershwin duet, Bess, You Is My Woman Now, <\/em> with his wife, Taryn Fiebig.<\/p>\n

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Jud Arthur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jud Arthur and Taryn Fiebig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See the full gallery of photos from NZ Aria 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

Rotorua Daily Post report<\/a> using my photos.<\/p>\n

From a technical perspective it is a relatively simple event to cover with constant lighting making manual exposure easy. I routinely use a full frame DSLR (Nikon D700, D3s, D800 and now D810) with a 70-200mm f2.8 tripod mounted on a gimbal head. 1\/250s f2.8 and ISO 800 gives me files I can efficiently batch out in Lightroom and export with JPEG Mini<\/a>. This year I added the Nikon D500 handheld with the Nikon 300mm f4 PF lens. The 450mm (full frame equivalent) reach allowed me to get some close-ups of the singers and pushing the ISO to 1600 gave me the equivalent exposure value. The sharpness of the 300mm f4 PF continues to amaze me and I needed to use some negative clarity on some of the files in Lightroom as they were a little too sharp on the stage makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This was my sixth year covering the Aria and it\u00a0was, again,\u00a0a real privilege to enjoy the amazing music while making images to record the New Zealand Aria 2014. It's a long day, starting with the Maori song contest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NZAria-2014-73_D814517.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NZAria-2014-73_D814517.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NZAria-2014-73_D814517.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NZAria-2014-73_D814517.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NZAria2017-6x4-65.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}