Watermead Country Park - By Martin Boyce Photography

Martin Boyce Photography proudly presents Watermead Country Park by Air.
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This is the greatly anticipated second video in my Leicester By Air series, the first video being that of Bradgate Park which was published in August this year. Link of which is below.
This video represents about 15 individual visits to various parts of Watermead Park throughout September. Due to the popularity of the park I had to do this almost exclusively at sunrise, between 5:30am and 6:30am on very selective days that the weather permitted flying. I not only wanted to capture the beauty of the park but to do it against interesting weather and atmospherics, selecting mornings with interesting cloud formations or mist.
This video essentially starts at one end of Watermead Park and finishes at the other zigzagging through the park as I went. I decided to start with the parks most recognisable land mark, the Mammoth monument in Thurmaston and worked up the park from there, featuring Mammoth Lake, King Lear Lake, The bird sanctuary & John Merrick Lake and all the other little interesting and quirky parts of the park that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to see on foot. I wanted to show the beauty of this park from a perspective like never before.
From a filming perspective I used knowledge I had gathered from filming the Bradgate video and the experience shows in how I shot this video. Unlike the Bradgate video a huge proportion of this video was filmed over water which made it quite a nervous one to film as a splash landing would destroy the quadcopter and camera instantly. Luckily for me some careful flying and some good luck saw that didn’t happen. Due to the park being closer to home I ended up over filming some parts which meant a lot of footage was edited out, some great footage at that, but needed to leave the video well balanced and not eternally long.
The video was filmed natively at 1080p 25fps and was flown between 1 and 200 feet in altitude. It was all filmed by eye, not first person view (so mostly best guess)
This video was filmed in a non-commercial capacity
If you enjoy Watermead Country Park and appreciate the time and effort that has gone into this video then please give it a share. I have uploaded it to both Facebook & UA-cam
Here is the UA-cam link to the first instalment Bradgate Park
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I’ve worked very hard on this over many hours and am very proud of how it has come together. I appreciate everyone’s support.
My next project will be either the Great Central Railway or Abbey Park.
Many Thanks
Martin