This anthology of how to ‘do’ a visit to a preserved railway encapsulates subtly, movement and mood in your inimitable way. This is best illustrated by the sequence from 09:38 to 10:30. Poise, position, panning of the highest quality. Thank you, again.
Thought it was a ghost train with that opening shot!!! Sight and sound of Camelot and Archie - brilliant, but was the Standard having a bit of a slip trying to push Archie who appeared to be just simmering???🤔 Nige was excellently turned out. Thanks Matthew
I was on the 2nd double header and from horsted to the sharpthorne camelot was doing all the work for some reason. Then they seemed to swap from over to the run to East Grinstead
@thepicoproductions A little. Unfortunate mix of bright sunshine with a predominantly white sky, backlit exhaust, against harsh shadows and in some cases having the locos emerge from darkness. All in, it made for very varied light across single shots, which was very hard to compensate for since the camera greatly struggles with it. For example, the clip from 06:42. As soon as 73082 emerged from the tunnel, the raw clip becomes very desaturated and dark. A lot of effort has gone in to try and improve the back end of the clip in post-production, so it would at least be usable.
I can't understand why in so many frames there are signs and fencesc etc between the camera and the locomotive(s) when there is uninterrupted greenspace just a few feet to the side. Sorry, but that just ruins it for me.
I could watch that first scene with Sir Archie over and over again. Gorgeously atmospheric
Beautiful film! So atmospheric in stunning autumn light, perfect exhaust in still chilly air. Doesn't get much better than this.
This anthology of how to ‘do’ a visit to a preserved railway encapsulates subtly, movement and mood in your inimitable way.
This is best illustrated by the sequence from 09:38 to 10:30. Poise, position, panning of the highest quality.
Thank you, again.
Had a fantastic day at the Bluebell yesterday, thanks for providing the excellent atmostpheric photographics.
What wonderfully atmospheric footage!
Always love your videos and this one is up there with some of the best! That opening shot was just beautiful.
So great how the steam lingers in the tunnel entrance long after the train had gone on really impressive.
Excellent video, many thanks for posting.
Excellent video👍
Very nice, like!
Cheers
Very nice 👍🇬🇧
Great video as always.
Lovely stuff!
Thought it was a ghost train with that opening shot!!! Sight and sound of Camelot and Archie - brilliant, but was the Standard having a bit of a slip trying to push Archie who appeared to be just simmering???🤔 Nige was excellently turned out. Thanks Matthew
Super video :)
Very good footage excellent camera work…
Thank you
I was on the 2nd double header and from horsted to the sharpthorne camelot was doing all the work for some reason. Then they seemed to swap from over to the run to East Grinstead
12:48Sir Archibald's driver was sitting back and letting Camelot push him there.
totally fantastic train
Wow 😮
Out of interest were you having Camera problems as a lot of shots were underexposed?
@thepicoproductions
A little. Unfortunate mix of bright sunshine with a predominantly white sky, backlit exhaust, against harsh shadows and in some cases having the locos emerge from darkness. All in, it made for very varied light across single shots, which was very hard to compensate for since the camera greatly struggles with it.
For example, the clip from 06:42. As soon as 73082 emerged from the tunnel, the raw clip becomes very desaturated and dark. A lot of effort has gone in to try and improve the back end of the clip in post-production, so it would at least be usable.
I can't understand why in so many frames there are signs and fencesc etc between the camera and the locomotive(s) when there is uninterrupted greenspace just a few feet to the side. Sorry, but that just ruins it for me.
this calls for stepney's theme music