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Looks like I'm going to have a busy weekend!
One of my building projects, a quite bland office development in London, completed this week. Before we handed it over to the client I managed to get an hour to walk around with the camera with the primary aim of getting some record photos (I quite often get asked by my colleague for details and to show the a photo normally makes it easier for them to understand).
So along the snaps, I challenged myself to try and get a few "interesting artist" images, which considering its primarily a square business park box was going to need a little creative thinking, also time was of a premium to avoid getting told off by the boss for not doing the day job.
Anyway with a mix of fisheye lens, HDR tinkering and interesting prospectives. I actually got a dozen or so images that I was quite pleased with.
When I was on-site the next day one of the site managers, who I bumped into while taking the images, was interested to see what I had done, so I popped the ipad out and let him flick through images. He was quite complementary, which obviously gave me a buzz and asked if I wouldn't mind emailing him a couple which I thought nothing of.
Today while I was back down on site tidying up some loose ends I got pulled into the office by one of the site directors and conversation went along the lines of:
Simon, I saw the images you took the other day, thought they were really good. (Getting that buzz again that someone appreciating my hobby).
As you know we have the project completion party a week Tuesday and got circa. 200 guests arriving. There's an ante room into the venue we are using which everyone will gather in.
Do you mind if we could use dozen or so of your images and display around the room as something of interest / talking point to keep the guest entertained before the formal speeches.
So my first response was, didn't you have your normal professional tog go around on Saturday, aren't you using any of his images?
To which the response was no (I've seen some of this guys work and he specialises in this field and is very good), so I'm now even more confused.
Anyway I'm now getting to the point thinking oh Bugger, would have been nice to know earlier as I would have taken the images to suit the audience.
As I'm writing this message now I thinking BUGGER BUGGER
Just realised that not only will the guys I work with on a day to day basis see the images along with senior people in my business, which isn't really a problem. Even the Client I'm not too worried about as I'm sure he would just appreciate a "nice photo". What has just dawned on me is the senior partners of the architects are likely to be there, these are some of the UK's top architects and here I am depicting their design, photographically, in front of some quiet influential people within the construction industry (brown pants time!).
To make matter worse, it's unlikely I'll be able to now gain access to the building again reshoot any of the images and apart from a very informal exhibition I did at work with my colleagues a few years ago to raise a few pounds for charity, I've never seriously presented any of my work.
So this weekend I'm going to be busy re-doing the PP on my images (as I only went to the level of detail suitable for low res on the Ipad) and trying to make the best of the situation with my limited skills.
Let's just hope there is lots of alcohol at the party!
Simon
One of my building projects, a quite bland office development in London, completed this week. Before we handed it over to the client I managed to get an hour to walk around with the camera with the primary aim of getting some record photos (I quite often get asked by my colleague for details and to show the a photo normally makes it easier for them to understand).
So along the snaps, I challenged myself to try and get a few "interesting artist" images, which considering its primarily a square business park box was going to need a little creative thinking, also time was of a premium to avoid getting told off by the boss for not doing the day job.
Anyway with a mix of fisheye lens, HDR tinkering and interesting prospectives. I actually got a dozen or so images that I was quite pleased with.
When I was on-site the next day one of the site managers, who I bumped into while taking the images, was interested to see what I had done, so I popped the ipad out and let him flick through images. He was quite complementary, which obviously gave me a buzz and asked if I wouldn't mind emailing him a couple which I thought nothing of.
Today while I was back down on site tidying up some loose ends I got pulled into the office by one of the site directors and conversation went along the lines of:
Simon, I saw the images you took the other day, thought they were really good. (Getting that buzz again that someone appreciating my hobby).
As you know we have the project completion party a week Tuesday and got circa. 200 guests arriving. There's an ante room into the venue we are using which everyone will gather in.
Do you mind if we could use dozen or so of your images and display around the room as something of interest / talking point to keep the guest entertained before the formal speeches.
So my first response was, didn't you have your normal professional tog go around on Saturday, aren't you using any of his images?
To which the response was no (I've seen some of this guys work and he specialises in this field and is very good), so I'm now even more confused.
Anyway I'm now getting to the point thinking oh Bugger, would have been nice to know earlier as I would have taken the images to suit the audience.
As I'm writing this message now I thinking BUGGER BUGGER
Just realised that not only will the guys I work with on a day to day basis see the images along with senior people in my business, which isn't really a problem. Even the Client I'm not too worried about as I'm sure he would just appreciate a "nice photo". What has just dawned on me is the senior partners of the architects are likely to be there, these are some of the UK's top architects and here I am depicting their design, photographically, in front of some quiet influential people within the construction industry (brown pants time!).To make matter worse, it's unlikely I'll be able to now gain access to the building again reshoot any of the images and apart from a very informal exhibition I did at work with my colleagues a few years ago to raise a few pounds for charity, I've never seriously presented any of my work.
So this weekend I'm going to be busy re-doing the PP on my images (as I only went to the level of detail suitable for low res on the Ipad) and trying to make the best of the situation with my limited skills.
Let's just hope there is lots of alcohol at the party!
Simon
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