Photography at the Tucson Medical Center

When planning the architectural photography of the new pediatric wing at the Tucson Medical Center we were faced with a couple of typical challenges, a tight schedule and a tight budget. The hospital would be moving staff into the new wing as soon as construction was completed, so I would be doing the interior photography while the contractors were completing their work. I would have one day, from 6:00am until 11:00pm to complete the interior and exterior photography.

I flew into Tucson the day before the shoot so that I could do a walk-through of the new wing and familiarize myself with the project. The front of the building faces south and is well lit at night, so I decided to begin the next day by shooting at sunrise.

On shoot day I arrived an hour before sunrise to find an SUV parked on the sidewalk at the front entrance. It turned out that a film crew (along with models and stylists) would be shooting a couple of TV commercials in the new wing. Since the hospital had hired the film crew and I was shooting for the architects, I was going to have to work around the film crew.

The guys were nice enough to move the SUV so that I could get the sunrise photographs and I spent the rest of the day trying to get my shots without getting in their way. In addition to having to work around the film crew, at 8:00am a construction crew began tearing up the driveway right in front of the main entrance. This would really interfere with the daylight exterior photos!

The film crew wrapped at 4:30 and by 5:00pm the construction crew had left, but by that time the sun had swing too far to the west to get the sunlit exteriors that I wanted. But with both crews gone I was able to make good progress on the shot list. I did a few exteriors as the sun set and by 11:00pm I had the last interior photograph finished. Seventeen hours after I started, I was finished. A typical day shooting architecture!   http://www.claytonstudio.com         Follow Me on Twitter


 

 

 

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