Photographer Interviews – Tuan Nguyen
Photographer Tuan Nguyen (Screen name Daiviet, www.mychillybin.co.nz)
What are your photographic preferences (in terms of subjects and treatments – not equipment)
I have found amongst other treatments that stitching pictures together gives me coverage AND details. And it’s quite effective across a wide range of subjects: landscape, urbanscape, architecture, interior, large groups of people.
Tell us about your three best selling images on mychillybin? Did you have any issues with taking them? What do you like about them, and/or why do you think designers will want to use them?
We were driving when this vineyard caught my eyes, particularly the graceful curves of the grape vines. I saw the tractor coming over the hill, and waited for it to come into full view to add the human touch. #100116_732
I was quite taken by the beauty of the Clyde Dam, New Zealand’s third largest hydroelectric dam. I find the clean clearly defined geometric shapes very pleasing. #100116_1268
Ahhh, the foothills of the Canterbury plains on a bright clear winter day. We were on holiday in the South Island, and revisiting my old haunts. On the way to Tekapo, this vista opened up in from of us. I am really chuffed to have captured two of New Zealand’s greatest assets: green fields and snow-capped mountains. #100116_1333
Tell us about two other images in your portfolio that are particularly satisfying to you and why?
The essence of Lake Pukaki is its cobalt blue colour. I think I have managed to capture that essence in this photo. #100116_7
I was absolutely captivated by those eyes. #100116_2394
Do you have a nugget of information or inspiration that guides your photography that you can share with us?
In his essay “The Game of Photography, What Are the Rules?” published on the Luminous Landscape web site, Harold Merklinger wrote: “I like pictures that bring me back to look again, and again”. I hope that my pictures will bring you back to look again, and again too.
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