UK Flood Barriers Brochure Shot

[Hamish Gill]

I did a job for a local company called UK Flood Barriers today.
They needed a single shot for a brochure they are putting together. The Brief was to capture their testing equipment in action, the scale of the equipment and testing facilities and if possible some branding.

A short slightly crappy video of the set up ... I was on the top of a very high ladder and didn't have much room to maneuver

[video=youtube_share;VhqpP9yiwVE]http://youtu.be/VhqpP9yiwVE[/video]

This is the end product

The actual photo was shot at 640iso not 400 as the video shows.
The camera was on a tripod on top of a large ladder-thing with wheels. It was taken using a remote trigger with the camera set to 5fps to get the chap walking in a position i was happy with.
It was shot at 16mm to get the as much in as possible...

UK Flood Barriers

Driven by innovation, sustainability and excellence, our vision is to lead the flood defence sector by providing the most effective and intelligent range of flood defence solutions to meet the diverse needs of our customers.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Interesting commission - and challenging as well

I see management were working hard on the gantry then!

So was this all available light or did you have some remote triggered flash?

 

[Brian Moore]

That's a cool image, Hamish. And, to Chris's point, shows the British worker at his best.

Is that the one that will go in the brochure, then?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Yeah it's just the lit by the big lights, some fluorescents and the odd sky light ... Bit of a wb nightmare to be fair!

 

[Paul Lange]

Professional shot Hamish, it certainly gives the sense of scale and that something technical is going on to stop the room getting flooded out. Looks like it was a tricky one too as there seems to be little space around the edges to get some distance from the test rig.

 

[Hamish Gill]

There is another shot here
Testing Flood Defence Products - UK Flood Barriers
You can see there is more room around it to the left of the frame, but no angle that gave such insight into what goes on ...
Its not a perfect photo, in terms of straight lines etc, I decided it woul be best to just get the gantry thing level... I think it works? At very least, it's eye catching I think