Another animation

Having booked and paid for my flights to Belfast for a quick weekend at the start of this month, I had a call from Stuart Newman to shoot some interiors and details for the Society of Antiquaries and of course the shoot date conflicted with my outbound flight time. Through the years I have shot for Stuart on many occasions and the work is always creative and interesting and Stuart is one of the "good guys" in the business. Therefore I had no hesitation in changing the flight to the next morning and this was easy enough and didn't break the bank - still giving me nearly four days in Belfast.

The animation above is the result of eighty odd frames I shot of the Society's brass floor plaque, with shoes supplied by Stuart. The frames are combined as an image sequence in QuickTime and saved as a QuickTime movie - all quite simple but effective. Below is one of the panoramic interiors - five frames stitched in Photomerge.

As I was off for the weekend and all clients want images as soon as, there was the distinct possibilty that I would be processing the shoot through the evening and early hours and then driving the disks to Clerkenwell and then on to Stansted - otherwise they would have had to wait until I returned on Tuesday. Thankfully the first part of the above was true and I was able to drop the disks into a Post Box before continuing to the airport but it still took until 245am to complete. As I didn't have the delivery detour I managed an extra hour in bed, rising at 5am - not a lot of sleep before the drive and flight but enough. It was the end of a busy week as I had shot a wedding last Saturday and had to process the images immediately as the couple didn't go on honeymoon but all the better to get both jobs out the door and finished.

It's strange but I was actually looking forward to the early morning drive into Central London as the City is so magical and quiet at that time of day. I also planned to visit the 24hr Bagel Bar in Brick Lane to pick up a Salt Beef Sandwich . . . ah well, Pret a Manger had to suffice at the airport!