From a walking site tour around an Energy centre to Corporate Headshots – A Busy Afternoon with Vital Energi
It’s always good when a photography assignment gives me a bit of variety, and a recent afternoon working with the lovely team at Vital Energi certainly delivered that.
The afternoon started at Islington Council’s Bunhill Energy Centres, where I was commissioned to photograph a special visit from a Swiss delegation representing BRUGG Pipes and the Board of IBB AG.The delegation had travelled to London to learn more about the UK’s district heating sector and to see the Bunhill Energy Centres first-hand.Capturing the Visit
My job was to document the visit and provide Vital Energi with a strong collection of professional images capturing both the people involved and the impressive energy infrastructure surrounding them.For this type of assignment, I like to work as unobtrusively as possible, following the group as they move around the site and capturing the conversations, presentations and interactions as they happen.Alongside those more natural documentary-style photographs, I also look for opportunities to create wider environmental images that establish the location, details of the infrastructure and, of course, those all-important group photographs.Technical and industrial environments are always interesting places to photograph. Pipework, machinery, engineering installations and architectural details can provide fantastic backgrounds and help give the photographs a real sense of place.The objective, though, is always the same: tell the story of the visit through the people, the location and the moments happening in front of the camera.
From an Energy Centre to Corporate Headshots
Once the delegation visit was wrapped up, there wasn’t much time to admire the photographs.Camera kit packed away, it was straight onto the motorbike and across London to Holborn for the second part of the afternoon’s assignment.This time, the brief was completely different.I was heading to Vital Energi’s offices to set up for a series of professional profile photographs of members of their team.After photographing a busy site visit in an operational energy environment, it was a quick change of pace: finding the right locations within the office, setting up the lighting and creating a consistent series of natural, professional portraits.I particularly enjoy photographing corporate headshots within a company’s own workplace. Rather than relying on a generic studio background, the office environment can be used subtly to give the photographs some context and personality while still keeping the individual as the clear focus of the image.
Two Very Different Shoots. One Afternoon.
By the end of the afternoon, we had covered two very different photography briefs for the same client.From documenting an international delegation visiting an important London energy facility, to creating professional profile photography for the Vital Energi team, it was a great example of the variety that comes with working as a corporate and commercial photographer.It was certainly a busy afternoon — but everything was covered, the photographs were in the bag and, most importantly, happy clients at the end of it!A big thank you to everyone at Vital Energi for another enjoyable assignment.Corporate, Event & Industrial Photography
I work with businesses across the construction, energy, engineering, property and infrastructure sectors, providing professional photography for everything from show-home Interior Photography to site visits, stakeholder events, project milestones to corporate headshots, completed developments and marketing campaigns.And when several different types of photography need covering on the same day, that’s absolutely fine too.If you have an upcoming project, event, site visit or need to update your team’s corporate photography, please get in touch. I’d be very happy to discuss how I can help.