INDUSTRY IN NEW LIGHT

Ulrich Wirrwa
2. Mai
2 Min. Lesezeit

In industrial photography, documentation is essential.

There are already countless photos of many industrial projects. More and more clients are asking me for specific images.

What interests me is the question: How can these scenes be turned into images that do more than simply show — images that create impact?

WIWIPHOTO & FILM meets AI-assisted interpretation

The foundation is an original photograph I captured it myself, the moment is real. What comes next is not replacement, but collaboration: photography provides the truth of the scene, while AI-supported editing helps to bring out atmosphere, emotional weight and a more cinematic visual language.

I believe this is an important distinction. Not every AI image has to begin from scratch. It can also begin with reality.

I would be pleased to hear your perspective on this visual approach.

Episode 1:

Jacketed installation vessel loaded with monopiles in a storm, captured automatically with an action camera suspended from a fishing line.

Episode 2:

With my drone and wide-angle camera, I documented the transport of an accommodation platform on its way from the shipyard in Kiel through the Kiel Canal beneath the Rendsburg High Bridge.

Episode 3:

Using my Sony A1 and the 16 mm G Master lens, I photographed the foundations for the Fécamp wind farm in France. A total of 71 concrete gravity-based foundations were used for this project, manufactured at the Grand Port Maritime du Havre.

Episode 4:

For this image of the fully installed wind turbine in Schleswig-Holstein, I flew my drone in close with a wide-angle setting.

Episode 5:

The trailing suction hopper dredger underway in the North Sea, filmed with my action camera mounted on a selfie stick and held into the water from a pilot boat.

Episode 6:

Captured in Cuxhaven with my drone from the ground, showing the loading of newly manufactured turbines.

Episode 7:

Captured during tidal flat surveys in the North Sea with my Canon 1D X Mark II and the EF 70–200 mm lens.

Episode 8:

Using my Sony A1 with a GM 16-35mm lens, I documented the arrival of one of the longest wind turbine blades of its time at a construction site in Denmark.

Episode 9:

Shot handheld with my Sony ILCE-7RM2 from a CTV, this photo captures the offshore substation in a German wind farm in an almost surreal moment of complete wind stillness.