Steaming at Dingle Leigh

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Chris Bird

Steam,gardening, photography
Hi folks
It has become a bit of a tradition for me to stay with David Turner on my way to Peterborough and to make a film of his amazing Dingle Leigh Railway. This year the railway is very different as it is in the process of being converted to 7/8ths with some magnificent scratch built buildings. He had just finished the ballasting and we hurriedly planted the buildings to allow us to film. You can see the result here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1gJOoXQvKM

Of course, not everything went smoothly so there are a couple of out takes at the end ;-)
Cheers
Chris
 
Nice. Very enjoyable :D
 
Excellent Chris. I always enjoy your videos as they are well recorded and edited. You always get the correct angle to rather than "birds eye view" but as if the viewer is next to the track.

Thanks for sharing.

Daniel
 
Thanks guys ;D

Daniel - i always try to get the lineside view and two things help. The first is that I use a bridge camera (Fuji HS10 and now HS30) which has a wide angle option (24mm) and the second, which is much more important, is that I use a 'bean bag' to support the camera. This is a cloth bag about 9" square, full of grain (I use chicken corn, but rice would be fine) and I just dump it where I want and plonk the camera on it. A flip up viewfinder helps me to level it and then I just press the button and stand back! The bean bag idea cam from Paul Sherwood a few years ago - he was on one of the Narrow Gauge in the Garden videos by Mark Found.
Cheers
Chris
 
Crikey - that is utterly fantastic in all respects! Brilliant landscaping, amazing buildings and great trains shown off by excellent filming. Thanks for the tip about the bean bag - my attempts at video making are awful, as I try to dash about between controls and crouching down with a tiny camera, but I think you've solved one of my problems. Sadly, the issue of less photogenic subject material cannot be so easily addressed.

Thanks for a smashing video, I really enjoyed it.
 
ViaEstrecha said:
Crikey - that is utterly fantastic in all respects! Brilliant landscaping, amazing buildings and great trains shown off by excellent filming. Thanks for the tip about the bean bag - my attempts at video making are awful, as I try to dash about between controls and crouching down with a tiny camera, but I think you've solved one of my problems. Sadly, the issue of less photogenic subject material cannot be so easily addressed.

Thanks for a smashing video, I really enjoyed it.
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Thanks Martyn - and I suggest that you use the tripod mount to bolt a piece of wood to the base of the tiny camera if using a bean bag. It will make it more stable. Or use a Gorrilla-pod type of tripod. The are small and will go low if you splay the legs like a spider (well a three legged one!). Sometimes you need a little height to avoid background fences and the like. I tend to grab what is handy - like a tool box or paint tin or a brick - and then put the bean bag on that.
Oh - I could go on.......... ;D
Cheers
Chris
 
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