Aerospace Engineering

Sometimes it all happens in a rush. I got a call from a company that supplies materials to the aerospace industry, they were having an article published in the trade press and needed some good quality shots of their massive warehouse and facilities. The trouble is they called on a thursday, for a shoot on the friday and needed the results uploaded to an ftp site over the weekend.

The only real problem with this was that they were still working in the warehouse so there was no way I could use studio lights as I wasn't allowed to run cables across the floors so I had to light a massive warehouse using off camera flash!

It was easy enough for the component shots - employing red and blue coloured gels to make the shots of grey aluminum more interesting.

 It was more difficult to lift the greys of the racking into something more interesting, so again I employed a blue gelled flash. See comparison shots  first without flash then with it. It just makes the shot stand out from the pack.

Film Studio Marketing

Ok - so I get a phone call - please come to our brand new film studio and take some shots of the facilities so we can get our website and marketing materials sorted.

Great! Nice job - and what's better is that it is only 20 minutes from my house! So I turn up with bags of lights to be shown a guy with a huge motorbike and a girl who has never modeled before!

I used elinchrom 400s for the interior shots and then took the model out into the woods to really make the most of her potential. The outdoor shots were taken using natural light and a trigrip reflector.

I send the shots off to the client - get a phone call back almost immediately - we love them - would you consider being our in-house photographer... how could I say no?! I still work freelance - but have just added them as another client - I will be the guy they call first if they need any stills photography. Its great when it all works out.

The web link to the studios is here if you want to book it for some filming or even for some photography! Or actually if you want to look at some shots of their facilities - but I mean honestly which would you prefer - shots of a model or of some overhead lighting?