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| Ravenglass and Eskdale railway, with Graham | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2018 00:47 |
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Robert
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Had the pleasure of working with Graham yesterday taking stills to illustrate his latest railway video of the local narrow (15") gauge railway. We also experimented with my tiny (about 30mm cube) Go-Pro Hero Session camera which with a powerful magnetic base was stuck to the front of the new 'train from Spain' a new acquisition this year which has been named 'Whillan Beck' in keeping with the tradition of using names of rivers in the Eskdale valley. http://rerps.co.uk/locomotive/whillan-beck/ I plan to post a series of photographs here from the project but I am back up to Ravenglass shortly to get some more stills and maybe another video with the Go-Pro. This is Graham, recording the arrival of 'Northern Rock' at Dalegarth station at the head of the Eskdale valley. Taken with D3 and 24-120 f4 lens. 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2018 12:34 |
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jk
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Good capture. That rare Graham Whistler bird and the fine puffing billy train. Look forward to seeing more.
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 5th, 2018 19:28 |
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Robert
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Thank you JK, just this minute back from Ravenglass. I think we have it in the bag, Graham only has a few minor clips to record tomorrow. I have had great fun with the Go-Pro, this morning I sought permission to place the little camera on the track between the rails, stuck down with the magnet to some convenient steel anchorage on a sleeper. We have viewed the results and it's quite spectacular, with the engine and the entire train passing over the little Go-Pro. This evening I have been taking a time-lapse of the sunset and I intended to make a star trail photo above the tracks, they point almost exactly North as they leave Ravenglass. I had to abandon my plans for the star trails because of security lights which kept coming on which ruined the otherwise excellent image. Will try to post some more images tomorrow.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2018 17:41 |
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Robert
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Having spent two full days processing, I have processed most of the usable images for Graham, having done the important bit I have been having some fun... As I mentioned, the security light was a pain in the bum, came on for a while then went off etc. I was determined to produce a star trails picture so I had to resort to trickery. Believe me it would have been easier to have shot it than to process it via Ps. This is the burnt out security lights shot... Useless!  This is the sunset shot:  Spot Graham time!  These are a couple more pix from day two: Grahams first ride on the Whillan Beck Locomotive footplate.  After a hard days filming:  This is my attempt to produce a star trail picture despite pesky security lights. 
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| Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2018 18:16 |
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Robert
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Just as point of interest... My spelling of Lil'e Ratty differs from the 'official' spelling which is La'al Ratty. Coming from what was North Lancashire but is now South Cumbria, Lil'e means little or small, the pronunciation in West Cumbria (formally Cumberland) dialect is much broader and I believe the West Cumbria spelling reflects the dialect.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 8th, 2018 02:02 |
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Graham Whistler
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Thank you Robert for all your help I hope you enjoyer your two days with me on The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. This is a quick snap I did of you fitting your GoPro to the fromt of the new loco to film the whole 7 mile journey in both directions. This will give super cut-away footage for our new film. Attachment: _DSC0277.jpg (Downloaded 51 times)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 8th, 2018 02:05 |
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Graham Whistler
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Robert track side on the railway with senior driver Peter van Zeller and long term friend of GWP. This is my only D500 image as I was too busy all week making GWP's new film to be published ASAP in time for the railway's main summer season. Attachment: Robert.jpg (Downloaded 46 times)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 8th, 2018 02:48 |
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jk
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Super shots from you both. Nice to see the D3 being worn again.
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 8th, 2018 04:13 |
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Robert
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Graham Whistler wrote:Thank you Robert for all your help I hope you enjoyed your two days with me on The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. This is a quick snap I did of you fitting your GoPro to the fromt of the new loco to film the whole 7 mile journey in both directions. This will give super cut-away footage for our new film. It was a pleasure Graham, hard work, constantly looking for that 'something different' but I think we succeeded with the Go-Pro idea and when you see my stills, I hope there will be something among them which is useful. I am currently assembling a sunset time-lapse of the gantry with plenty of space for credits or some such.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 8th, 2018 04:19 |
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Robert
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Graham Whistler wrote:Robert track side on the railway with senior driver Peter van Zeller and long term friend of GWP. This is my only D500 image as I was too busy all week making GWP's new film to be published ASAP in time for the railway's main summer season. It was good to meet Peter and work with him on the video, I am sure this video will be at least as popular as your previous ones. I have some way to go before I grow my beard to Peters standard!
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