Work, Life and general musings of a timelapse photographer
One of the most common bookings I get for shooting timelapse is when a project is almost finished. The production company has shot all the material (or most) and is now sitting in a windowless, probably underground bunker-type room with a handful of drives, an editor or two and an edit producer or someone similar.
The First World War officially ended on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day on the eleventh month, 1918 - Armistice Day. Today it's often known as Remembrance Day or Poppy Day and a two minute's silence is held for the fallen in all conflicts since this date. In the UK and other Commonwealth members, a poppy is worn out of respect for those that gave their lives so we can live ours freely.
Timelapse Photography is very much in demand and for the past five years, I've been fortunate to live out my passion and get paid for it at the same time. After extensive research, I've discovered there's only a handful of people in the world that shoot timelapse exclusively for a full-time career and there's plenty of work out there!
For roughly the past two years I've had the pleasure of working with the expertly talented documentary film-maker Pierre Deschamps. 'Twas a cold January afternoon when he contacted me explaining the sort of shots he was after for his new Documentary about René Redzepi and having never worked on an Indie Doc before, I jumped at the chance!
Working as a full-time Timelapse Photographer can have it's downsides - not many, but like any other profession, it's not all plain sailing. When I'm booked for a job, I'll try and catch up on my sleep before I head off but sometimes, I really don't help myself. So I was asked to head to Anglesey to shoot some timelapse for the good old BBC (The programme name withheld as it's not been broadcast yet) and I took the 6hr drive from London to the very tip of Anglesey, technically Holy Island, to Southstack Lighthouse to do a bit of a recce before the next few day's shooting commenced.
I'd heard a rumour a while ago that apple would be integrating a timelapse feature into the new operating system and with a sigh and a yawn I discarded the info as I've never been a fan of timelapse apps, apart from TriggerTrap ;-)
