The Luxurious $94 million super yacht - 'La Masquerade'
While I was down at Sydney harbour last week to see the cruise liners that are visiting, I wondered about this lovely beauty that was mored near the Overseas Passenger Terminal.
It's the Luxurious Super Yacht - 'La Masquerade'.
Built in 2003, this 55m craft is owned by Sir Robert Ogden and is valued at $94 million dollars.
Truly a work of art, it's a floating palace featuring fully air conditioned cabins, a massive marble bathroom with jacuzzi, gilded gold leaf woodwork throughout and a full time personal chef with an assistant.
In the mid-deck section is a stowed Comittie Portofino (7.5m mahogany speedboat) which can be lowered into the water from on-board.
The owner is said to spend around 3 weeks a month on board this wonderful vessel.
The image above is taken with a Canon 20D , EF 24-105 mm L set at 24mm, f/8 , ISO 200 , 2 panel panoramic HDR.
Each panel is a HDR stack of 16 frames ranging in exposure up to 60 seconds using PS CS3 Merge-to-HDR and then the two resulting HDRs stitched together in Adobe PS CS3 Photo-merge.
As you can appriciate there was slight movement of the yacht during the exposure times hence the slight blurring in places of the final image.
Hope you enjoy.
Last edited by RB; 02-03-2013 at 09:26 AM.
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Nicely captured Andrew, would have been nice to have a guided tour.
Thanks Phil, yes a guided tour would have been nice but I count my blessing I didn't get arrested for spying LOL.
So many people stopped to ask me if I knew who owned the yacht, thinking I was commissioned to photograph it.
These days the general public automatically assumes you're a pro photographer if they see you with a tripod and a DSLR with a large lens.
Fantastic image Andrew .
If i was there i would of thrown my camera into the drink in sheer protest of the quality.
Anyway the backdrop of the Harbour Bridge gives it the yay for the day.
Cheers Kev.
Hi Andrew,
I have already posted a comment on this thread, however I keep coming back to your image, simply stunning.
I honestly think Houghy has a top idea, regarding selling this image to the Yacht owner.
If I owned that Yacht and saw this image of it, in such an iconic location, I would want the image and would be looking to put the photographer on a retainer.
The only thing wrong with it is it has no Observatory on board has a good spot for one though and no problem getting to dark sites but tracking might be a problem
Hummmpf.
Rather...."plasticy".
Most certainly NOT a Benetti!
Great shot though! Beautifully framed & exposed.
I feel the ever-so-slight softness actually adds to the image.
Reminds one of stumbling back to one's "punt' after a sufficiency of Kristal.
Thats a yacht ????????
Hmmmm ... not in my world it isnt, however its one hell of a photo... Great picture.
Must be good to spend 94 mill on something .. sell it when the ashtrays are full for 70 mill and not give a hoot about the other 24. If the truth be known, the whole 94 mill is probably just playing money anyway.
