Exhibition Project – Wembley Stadium Car park 24th March 2014

My wife and I have just had a weekend away after being given free tickets to see Saracens vs Harlequins at Wembley.  Which at the time of writing was the largest attendance ever to a game of club rugby union. Just in case I took my camera.

We stayed in the Quality Hotel Wembley a hotel really close to the ground which happened to overlook one of the event car parks.  It was actually my wife that suggested I should set my camera up to time-lapse it filling up with sports fans.  Without a tripod I had to make do and set it up on the windowsill on top of the upturned waste paper bin.  The only issue being that I knew i’d have to swap batteries at some point, which meant moving the camera.  There is a clear movement fairly early on, but it’s only an initial video and i’ve learned from it.  Here is a frame from what I shot.

This on my 16-85 lens, with a cheap 0.45 magnification add on to make the focal length about 7mm.  There is some vignetting which is actually the plastic rim of the add on lens, but this isn’t too much of problem because it needs cropping to 16:9 ratio anyway.  I took this wide shot to get as much car park as possible.   Unfortunately it didn’t get very full and as you will see from the final video, it’s cropped right into the top right corner:

Quite pleased with it.  I like the shadows and the novelty of the cars filling up in rows.  The big lot of crowd coming out at the end is sort of the effect i’ve been after.  The sky is also pretty amazing.