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 and gear.

CAMERA GEAR BLOG      -     STOCK FOOTAGE BLOG     -     WILD CAMPING BLOG

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York Stock Video Footage

Stock video footage of York, the beautiful cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England. With Roman origins, York is situated at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. The collection holds videos of many of its historic buildings and other structures, such as a York Minster, York Castle, and the gorgeous old city walls.

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Ukraine Footage

A selection of exclusive stock video clips of Ukrainian families and refugees marching through the streets of York in England.

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Gloriously full of custard - August 2023

I filmed a load of great cities and a Spitfire (with custard legs), visited the wreckage of a World War 2 plane at Fynnon Lloer, met some Ukrainians in York, and read about Stalin’s War.

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Chester Video Footage

A collection of premium stock video clips from in and around the city of Chester in the UK.

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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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