Rosey Estachia

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Rosey Estachia is a cinch to photograph and yet somehow I didn’t quite get her. I like the photo above quite a lot but from there I didn’t nail it. This image was taken with the Sony A1 and the Sony 50mm f1.4 at f1.4. The lighting is good, Rosey’s expression is great, the reflection in the window – photographers generally go (a bit too) crazy over reflections and so in general I don’t seek them out, but I like the reflection here, it adds something.

There’s also footage of Rosey in the video here.

This image of Rosey Estachia would never be a hit on instagram, it would get lost, but it’s a beautiful environmental portrait regardless. This is all artificial lighting with the Harlowe gobo setup. This image and all images here are copyright Campbell Mattinson. This was taken on the Sony A1 with the Sony 24mm f1.4 at f1.4.

I’ll single out the video footage that I have of Rosey when I get a chance but for now, the general video is all I have available..

Sometimes I look at this image and think: no, it’s not a keeper. Other times I look and think: it’s got something special. I get an emotion from it. And then I don’t. Rosey isn’t your average portrait subject. This was taken on the Sony A6700 with the 50mm f1.4.

 

Campbell Mattinson is a commercial photographer, novelist, wine critic and freelance journalist. He's based in Williamstown, in Melbourne's western suburbs, and has won multiple awards as a writer, photographer and filmmaker. Campbell specialises in portrait, editorial and architectural photography.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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