Some shoots feel controlled. This wasn’t one of them.
Out at the Australian Marine Complex, just outside Perth, everything was moving—literally. Massive industrial cargo being offloaded, cranes in constant motion, crews coordinating in real time. It’s the kind of environment where you don’t direct the scene—you adapt to it. I was there to take photogrpahs of the cargo being offloaded, record video to produce a short video for the client as well.
To make this story make sense, I decided to take timelapse photos of the operation along with normal video. So for a night and day I was on the Wharf 4 doing 3 things at one time juggling 2 cameras.
From the start, it was clear this shoot was about scale. Not just visually, but operationally. I was watching tonnes of equipment being lifted, shifted, and positioned with precision, and my job was to translate that into something that still feels grounded when viewed on a screen. It’s easy to lose that sense of scale in photos and video, so a big part of the process was finding reference points—people, structures, framing—to make the size of everything land properly.
I had a great time on this shoot. Worked until 11:30 PM and then got there again at 8am to finish it by 1pm. Results will be out soon.
