A small film crew silhouetted against a dusk sky on a flat outback plain, one operating a camera on sticks and one holding a boom pole raised high

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Where the work happens

Most WA factual work isn't shot in a studio. It's shot inside an aircraft with the engine running, on a boat, on a mine site, or two hours down a track in the Pilbara with no mains power and forty degrees of heat.

Those are the conditions that decide whether a recording is usable, and the conditions the kit is chosen and maintained for. These are working stills from real shoot days.

Richard Hubbard booming a string quartet on a concert-hall stage, bag-mounted mixer on his chest, with a camera on a slider in the foreground — Booming a string quartet

Location sound recordist Richard Hubbard fitting a radio lavalier mic to a performer in a blue flamenco dress on set — *Pieces*, 2022

Perth-based WA location sound recordist Richard Hubbard operating a boom microphone in the Australian outback — *Dr. Bob's Australien*, 2022

Richard Hubbard booming on location, silhouetted against the setting sun — Last light

Richard Hubbard recording location sound inside an aircraft engine on location — “Don’t worry, I’m wearing PPE”

Film crew with camera and sound gear walking into a remote location shoot — Backyard walk

Richard Hubbard with a quokka while on location at Rottnest Island, Western Australia — Rottnest Island

Total solar eclipse captured by Richard Hubbard on location — Exmouth eclipse, 2023

DJI Inspire 3 on a rock breakwater at sunrise while a crew member in hi-vis watches the sky, with a gantry crane and container stacks against a red dawn sky at Fremantle Port, Western Australia — Fremantle Port, first light