“I see you there walking around my personal space, chasing the equipment, people and light as it fades into my horizon. Many have come before you, many have succeeded in capturing my good side but many have also failed. Show me respect and walk safely within my domain and I will reward you with captured glimpses that will stay true to the end of time.” ~ The Open Pit
Back again, the Jumbo Drill, one of my favorite machines to photograph. This image was captured this past fall deep underground at Island Gold Mine just outside of Wawa Ontario Canada and was recently used displayed in Social Media. https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/wawa-area-mine-plans-for-expansion-2024459
Stop it, just stop it.
In between eating, sleeping and fishing over the holidays I got to catch up on some of my mining magazine browsing and I was still surprised to see low grade, over processed cellphone images being submitted for magazine articles. You know the ones I am referring too – quickly captured on a cellphone and then manipulated with an app where the colors are non existent in the real mining world. They look exactly like the top image I have attached below.
Any images featured in magazines, social media news or other related professional industry criteria should be of a standard you want your company to be known for.
Why?
Because if you don’t, your competitors will.
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It’s back to the grind, nose to the ground, full steam ahead, give it all you got kind of day. It’s back to work creating and showcasing mining images from around the world. Where will I go in 2020? I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet but if all goes according to plan I should be out and about to a few different countries this year so stay tuned to my blog, social media or subscribe to my email list and receive my posts once a week.
Images I created for Vale Canada LTD have been showcased throughout their 2018/2019 Integrated Community Report.
http://www.vale.com/canada/en/aboutvale/communities/pages/community-reports.aspx
The Front/Back images were photographed at Totten Mine in the Summer month of July. In addition a feedback card was mailed out to the community which I just received in the post.
I rarely get to capture images of surveyors underground so it was a pleasure to job shadow Kayla and photograph while she was working.
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My client www.macleanengineering.com sent me an email notifying me that an image I created for them is now on the cover for the December issue of Engineering & Mining Journal www.e-mj.com . Photographed underground at the Bracemac-McLeod Mine in Northern Quebec, Canada.
I have been playing around with a few images this week adding a little motion to them within photoshop. What do you think?
When it comes to using images for marketing materials just any o’l image wont do. There needs to be some balance between the image and the copy. Negative space is required to add text and graphics and if the composition of the image doesn’t work then the marketing material will not reach it’s full potential.
Having an end goal when creating images is always in my mind when I am looking through my viewfinder and creating the space needed within the frame is just one of many goals for each image.
Just like the mining industrial industry I am constantly learning and testing new technology within my business. It could be monitoring a content post (just like this one) to see if it gets a higher reach to prospective clients or it could be a new app to increase post production efficiency. You should be constantly trying new things within your environment to see if it can be improved by any marginal percentage.
I have a saying “It’s not that I am smart, I just try things until I get it right.”
You learn from failures as well as success but only if you try new things.
