County Hall London

County Hall London

I had a really interesting shoot for Architainment UK last week at County Hall in London. I've photographed and videoed the colour change LED lighting there before a couple of years ago for Philips Lighting but since then more of the facade of the building has been illuminated. Now the entire facade is lit and the LED projectors do a fantastic job of lighting the building in a dramatic fashion. The colour is set to a deep blue until Big Ben strikes (every fifteen minutes) whereby the building goes into a colour change frenzy for one minute then back to the blue. I took some detail shots and wider angle shots as well as a 7 shot panoramic which I shot from the other side of the Thames with my Canon 24-105mm lens zoomed to about 85mm. Architainment supplied and programmed the lighting control system and it works perfectly.
Here's a link to their website http://www.architainment.co.uk/

County Hall London

We traditionally go a bit quiet in December and we're now starting to wind down for Christmas. I've been in the office for most of this week (we had a shoot in the diary for Tuesday but we were rained off) so I'm feeling pretty relaxed and refreshed. It's been a very busy year and I'm ready for a break. Having said that we've still had a reasonably bust month and I've got three jobs pencilled in for next week so we'll be finishing the year on a high.

County Hall London

Last weekend we had a fantastic event in Milton Keynes called the Red Bull Home Run. The Red Bull F1 team are based here in Milton Keynes and as a celebration of their fantastic season in F1 Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel drove their F1 cars up and down Midsummer Boulevard in front of thousands of people. I took my little Olympus EPL1 along with a 17mm pancake lens attached and took some pictures of the cars racing up and down the Boulevard. It was a very overcast day and I didn't expect to get much of a result but I'm really pleased with the way this great little camera worked and the picture attached came out very well.

I could have taken my 5d and 70-200mm lens but I was jammed against a barrier and a small pocket camera was all there was room to manoeuvre so I'm pleased I took the EPL1 along. The more I use this cracking little camera the more I love it.