Stock Footage Dispatches: Field Notes from a Specialist Cameraman

This isn't a soppy lifestyle blog. It’s a documentation of the work behind my footage.

From field-testing and reviewing camera gear to hauling it all up into Snowdonia for a wild camp, these are my notes on stock footage filming, gear, my new fine art prints and the great British outdoors.

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Chichester Stock Video Footage

A drunk man in a wheelchair tells me to F off, but his charming accomplice said “Welcome to Chichester’, so I continued, and captured a load of Chichester stock video footage for this collection.

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It’s not unusual - July 2023

Barriers, cones, dilapidated buildings, new lenses, loads of rain, authoritarian taxi drivers, WW2 aircraft, dive-bombing birds, and Tom Jones.

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Wonderful Warwick - Stock Footage

An exclusive collection of premium stock footage from the historic market town of Warwick. Everything from drone aerial views of Warwick Castle, to low fast gimbal tracking shots of Warwick town center.

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Coffee under a tarp video

Some bloke quits social media and goes and drinks coffee in the woods, in the rain, to help avoid the digital cocaine, but it back-fires as he films himself and puts it on social media, and then writes about it on social media, and then shares the video on social media, and then ouch my head hurts, get me back to the woods.

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Samyang 135mm f1.8 video review

The bokeh monster! What an absolute beast of a lens the Samyang 135mm f1.8 is. Bonkers bokeh, or “blur”, for the non-sophisticated amongst us. A video review.

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Samyang 85mm T1.5 Cine Lens Review Video

A video review of this fine but rather unusual lens, and quite possibly one that is now a bit of a favorite of mine, the Samyang 85mm T1.5 Cine. Samyang, Rokinon. Whatever.

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Royal Ascot 2023

40mph on bumpy grass with high-end cameras, filming the king and eating Calippos.

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Clent Hills Bluebells Video

This little coffee break in Uffmoor Woods in the Clent Hills turned into a 12 month video filming project, as I decided to film an episode of what was later dubbed “Coffee in the woods” every month for a full year. It’s like looking back in time and figuring out what I did wrong in life. Clent Hills Bluebells… Coffee in the woods….. April.

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