I arrived early in the morning with very little concept of what was ahead of me. It was a phone call out of the blue and the gentleman was very gracious in his explaining of what was needed, all I new is that I was going to shooting something new and exciting.
So headed out to a farm 10 km out of town and made my way up the hill to an old camping ground that had been re-purposed into a glamping area. I had to look it up. 'Glamourous Camping". Think camping but with the luxury of living comfortably. Electricity, comfortable beds, private bathrooms and even hot tubs. Hassle free camping out in nature with modern amenities.
There was a concrete base and ablution built on each site with the "geodomes" set up with an outdoor sofa and picnic setup, umbrella, Champagne and snacks. Toiletries were set up in the bathroom with fresh towels and jasmin incense wofting around.
Very impressive. However clients are arriving at 15h00 this afternoon so we need to get as many pics done by then. Okey Dokey, lets get to it. As usual the weather in the mountains was a little alot unpredictable, but we got lucky I think, cloudy weather is in my opinion always welcome when photographing, nature gives automatic lighting options and the dramatic wonderful backgrounds are always worth it.
I shot the set up as panoramas - as I have mentioned before - I have a panorama problem. So the images were big and square with lots of cloud and foreground, which allowed me to make the light images I've posted here.
So thats the outside covered, now we need to shoot inside - oh boy - its really not very big in there, I also wanted to show how light, airy and incredibly visual or "room with a view' it is. Below is the result. I had to shoot portraight and rotate a touch, shoot, rotate. There are actually 10 images that make up the shot.
We may as well look at the toilet block as well. Very cool.
Of course the clients arrived early but we just made it in time and once I had put all the pics together, the client was happy.
But my day wasn't done - I was out in the sticks and access to a farm and their highlands, so off I set with camera bag in hand straight up the hill - I wanted to shoot from a highpoint, the skies were starting to look ominous and dramatic, it was the dark of winter, so everything was brown and dreary but it was a crisp cool day and the visibility was awesome. I set up my little tripod - I was spoiled for choice.
I think that was the moment in time I truly realised that I really had a panorama problem. I new I was going to stretch the abilities and limits of photoshop to stitch these images together and create memories that I would never forget. I wasn't happy about being right about that fact.
