First proper job!

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Oh well. The excitement didn’t last long. They just cancelled the drone part of the job! Way over budget evidently. Japanese TV company. Production team couldn’t justify the cost.

My guess is that someone from the crew will be there with a drone and do it for nothing.

Shame, I was really looking forward to doing some fast, across the water shots and then landing heroically on the back of the RIB!

However, I still have the underwater ROV part of the job so I can concentrate fully on that. It’ll be the first time I’ve gone down to full rated depth, 100 metres. I don’t know if it will all survive, whether the batteries will fail in the extreme cold, whether I’ll get snagged on anything. Whether my printed parts will explode. It’s still going to be a challenge but half of the fun has gone!

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I agree, I did a small job 3 years ago, for a lodge/static site who wanted some aerial shots for their new website and advertising campaign. They were using an advertising and Web agency who asked me to take the photos. The site owners pestered me directly for photos even after I pointed out that the advertising agency had commissioned me and any photos were going to be sent to them. I contacted the agency and they said they’d never been paid by the client and suspected he was trying to get photos for nothing and put them on his website. Needless to say I didn’t fall for it but got recompensed for my time and trouble by the agency.

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