Yesterday’s shoot

Yesterday was a long but fun day. I was in Michigan shooting photos of machinery that is used in a production line. The machines were going to be outlined for use in printed materials as well as for a website. Since most of the machines had windows so you could see things that move down the line, in many places you could see thru the machines. To make things easier on the graphic designers who would extract these machines from the background, I shot everything against white and laid white paper on the floor.

To make the white background I used a series of 15×18 ft. steel rolling panels that the company used as partitions. I used a scissor lift to clamp rolls of 9ft wide paper to the panels (see the photo below. Also note, no lighting was setup at this point). Fork lifts and the overhead 10 ton crane was used to move the machines into place in front of the background.

Background panels.

We shot for almost 10 hours and got great photos. The clients were very pleased so it was a very successful shoot! I crashed in my hotel room a little after 1am, then drove back to my studio in the morning. It was a lot of work and long hours, but the payoff was a set of images that myself and the clients loved. So worth it. 🙂

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Thanks for reading!!

-Ken