“Mining” for stock images
Industrial imaging is a genre of photography with high value in a stock portfolio. While shooting models has it’s own kind of, erm, attraction, industrial images can hold a different kind of fascination. There just has to be art in there somewhere and oddly enough, the ugliest most utilitarian industrial structures have a habit of revealing themselves in a variety of interesting forms.
A year or two back I did some work out in Potchefstroom, a large town about 90 minutes from Johannesburg. On the way to the appointment I could have sworn I had driven past a fantastic-looking petro-chemical plant with one of those tall “flare” chimneys and a bright fire on top. No idea why these plants need to burn their wares off to the world, but it’s a no-brainer of a photo opportunity for stock.