Monday, 18 July 2016

New bike

I decided to part-ex my nine year old BT1100 for a smaller and lighter XSR700.
This is a traditional styled but very modern bike base on the MT-07.
Surprisingly brisk acceleration and very sweet handling and gear shifts.

Anyway this is the second little run with it so still getting used to it and noting differences compared to other bikes.

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Houlstons silage team

This job has been delayed by the weeks of fog and drizzle, but a very heavy crop when they got to it on 25th June.
The GoPro and Feiyu gimbal got some good shots but colour balance is still problematic in some scenes - especially into light - despite being set at 5600 it sometimes looks magenta to me?
While this is easy to correct it's difficult to change during a scene.
There was added complication from the green tinted windows but I fixed that fine while leaving a hint of the effect deliberately.

I'm trialling Premier Pro CC 2015 but haven't been especially impressed over my stand alone older version. Some of the minor differences mainly seem plain annoying until you get used to it.
It has easier handling of LUTs built in though, which is especially good for Phantom 3  footage.

There's a longer version on the (4wdfarm) youtube account

Thursday, 16 June 2016

Baling silage

This seems to have been a surprisingly popular video from last week - I think most of the hits are coming from related videos - there are a lot of silage making videos uploaded in June!

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Milburn Arms and Rosedale Abbey

I had a long standing invite to do some aerials here so with nice late spring weather and needing to go close by anyway it was ideal yesterday.





Friday, 6 May 2016

Rosedale with pickup and Hero4

Not done much with cameras the past two weeks due to bad back!
It is definitely improving now and I could drive to Malton without undue discomfort today.
Came back the bumpy(!) scenic road by Rosedale and it was 17C so could hold gopro outside without freezing fingers off.

I did manage to go last week too and it was heavy snow at +1C over Blakey.