Late night shoot

Monday night I was on location from 10.30pm through to about 1.30am at the South Wharf site of the MMSR project filming the lifting out of the TBM from the shaft.

Lifting a 50 tonne piece of equipment was made to look easy by these guys.

Shooting in such low light conditions is challenging for both stills and video and when asked to shoot both on the one night, well something has to take priority. Working with Andrew we set up a locked off video camera with a wide shot of the location and let it roll for two hours, the idea here being a sped up shot in post.

Between the two of us we then shot a variety of stills and video, I ended up on top of the crane for the lift to the truck and was able to shot full HD video on the Canon 5D mkII. Fantastic having this flexibility.

Whilst the video is do-able handheld in these conditions, shooting stills with a low ISO requires the use of a tripod, this just meant discussing with the engineers what was going to occur and then planning out where to be for the best angle. Moving quickly with tripods around a construction site is not particularly safe, better to be deliberate.