You’ve done a brilliant job, thank you so much!
It’s always great to get positive feedback from the client but it’s really good to see the work out there and doing the job that it was intended for, marketing the property.
One of the first lessons that I learned as a commercial photographer, way back in the 1990s (ouch), is that blue skies aren’t always a photographer’s friend. At the time I was photographing a clip-on bicycle mudguard for a product design company and being a nice bright day, we propped the mountain bike up and shot the thing in my sunny Yorkshire garden. It was on film and an old RB67 camera. Of course, the eye/brain filters out the blueness of everything but commit it to unforgiving film and the results can look plain odd.
So, to Sowton.
This site is vast, the old Express and Echo apparently. And the scale of everything was a challenge in itself. We’d waited for some good weather and this day looked marginal. However, come the day the skies were very bright and frankly the sun was in the wrong place. Oh, and the fantastic refurb job was still in progress.
As a photographer, one works with what one has though, but can come away with ‘what ifs’ and ‘if only’. Like, what if the skies had been a tad less bright a blue of if only the entrance flooring had been down! But that’s what Dutch angles are for eh? And 30 years on the tech helps balance out colour variations pretty well.
Heavens, in the days of film, each photo would cost about a hundred quid to get scanned. Seriously!
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