Construction Vehicle Images

Today I have been visiting various construction sites in Derby to find pictures of construction vehicles for my module assignment. I managed to visit a site last Friday evening which had a few small construction vehicles but by the time I took the shots they had to leave and lock up soon (meaning I had little time) and that daylight had faded meaning that it was too dark to get good shots. It was also quite cramped in some shots so all in all it wasn't a good shoot. However they were very kind and invited me to come back on another week day which I planned to do today.

On Saturday whilst in Derby I inspected various areas of the city for construction sites and found quite a few possible locations. This morning I met up with a few friends and we headed off to the site I had been to previously. Whilst they were there, they all looked very busy and few machines anyway so we decided to try some other sites. After another couple of sites we came to the Cleggs building companies site. After speaking to the site manager we had permission to take photos of the site and vehicles in their lunch break. We returned at the expected time, were given high visibility jackets and helmets, and were escorted out to the site. This site had 3 or 4 construction vehicles, all the largest 50 tonne models according to one builder. So we picked our vehicles (the most well placed 2) and got to work. In all I took around 125 shots of the JCB including texture images, views from different angles and detailed shots. However the back of my vehicle was ill placed and so I couldn't get a great shot but that was the only problem here. Whilst a complex model, I do look forward to hopefully making a great digital copy of it. Here are a few of my shots.