6:30 am: Weather has worsened significantly overnight and it’s now all about snow and wind when we wake up. Outside, the temperature dropped below -15°C because of the wind.

8:45 am: The team arrives at the Global Seed Vault to start the indoor shooting of the Vault.
Thursday’s schedule is really tight and dense considering that we have planned to shoot :

- 12 different 360°views in the different areas of the vault,
- a lot of video capsules for the website and
- many detail-oriented pictures.

All of this photographic material aims to allow users of Crop Trust future website to feel like they are actually visiting the vault while being home sitting in their sofa.

We haven’t mentioned that in addition to this strict planning, we also depend on 2 people responsible for the Vault Maintenance and logistics (Ola & Simon).
They are supposed to join us in 1 hour in order to pose for photographies and just as Marie Haga did yesterday, they must leave at noon considering the fact that their plane is taking off for the continent early afternoon.
This therefore implies time-efficiency and great organization for all of us!

As soon as we get to the vault, we start reviewing the different spots for the 360°shooting before doing some preliminary tests in real situation.

Another essential element to consider is the temperature. The vault is indeed made up of different rooms and each of them has its own temperature.
What does it have to do with the shooting (apart from our very own comfort!)? Well…we must organize the photo equipment according to each room temperature in order to avoid fog on lenses.
This means that when you have to use cameras at -18°C, you cannot use them at -10°C straight after because of the condensation that would immediately appeared on the lens.
With a lack of available lenses combined to a bad organization, it’s easy to waste precious time awaiting for your material to adapt to the weather conditions!

Given this situation and the fact that we will have to shoot at 5 different locations with 4 different temperatures…and all that with the same lens (nope, unfortunately, we did not bring 4 fisheye lenses with us), it requires a lot of time to get things ready for the effective shooting.