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See what I mean? This shot is a real cracker, moody and magnficent and with real atmosphere after Tom has illuminated the front of the truck with his Elinchrom Ranger lighting rig. And that pile of scrap metal makes it a perfect 'stock' shot any time we want to write about recycling or the environment etc....Anyway I promised you some details and here they are. Tom's camera was an Canon EoS 1D Mk3, the 16-35mm F2.8 lens was stopped down to F13 "To get the depth of field and make sure all the scrap metal was in focus"  and the shutter speed was 1/125^th second with the ISO 'film speed' at 125

Meanwhile I said to Tom: "Why did you shoot it without the trailer this time?" His answer was nothing if not pragmatic. "Where the pile of scrap was, it was on a very tight corner by the quayside--if we'd have tried to do it with the truck AND trailer the whole lot would have ended up in the water!" 

And to finish here are a few facts about EMR. It handles 6 million tonnes of ferrous and 600,000 tonnes of non ferrous metal in the UK each year. Having first appointed ATS Euromaster on a trial basis in 2007 to demonstrate how a fully-managed tyre policy with daily fleet inspections could help reduce expenditure on tyres, ATS now supports approximately 100 trucks and 40 trailers. The company insists on fitting premium Michelin tyres, which can then be regrooved and remoulded by ATS Euromaster in line with Michelin's Four Lives tyre policy.  Encore tyres manufactured by Michelin are also fitted to the second-steer and drive axles of some vehicles in the fleet, which ranges from 18 to 44-tonners, and includes a mixture of tractor units, hooklifts and skip-loaders. There now James, happy?