The image above is the entry I made into the competition. It was taken at Back Beach in Bunbury and shows the sun set sky reflecting off water rushing through black volcanic rocks in the foreground. It is difficult enough to photograph a bright sky and a silhouetted foreground in one exposure, but when the foreground is deep black volcanic rock, it becomes an even greater challenge.
We bought the Leica S2 camera to take photographs like this. It uses a larger than full frame sensor and records the image in 16-bit colour. This allows us to manipulate the image in ways that aren't possible with a normal camera, without destroying the image. We use this camera for our wedding photography to capture scenes that would be impossible with conventional digital cameras.
Such as this...
The greatest part of using a camera like this is just how natural the photograph ends up looking. It does not have the appearance of being covered in tacky photoshop effects that will go out of fashion. It's true, honest, photography.
We don't use this camera for every shot we take, we take the advantages of other cameras and put them to use where we need them. For example, one of our newest cameras is the Fujifilm x100s, which features a leaf shutter and a very small form factor for taking photographs silently and discreetly whilst amongst a crowd. The bigger brother of the x100s, the x-e2, we use for photographing in the darkest part of the night with an extremely excellent detail to noise ratio. This is our philosophy on wedding photography. We don't take the easy path, we go after the quality regardless of the cost in both effort and expense.
If you want to have a look into the Leica S system, pay the guys at PRA Imaging a visit. 
