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Sir David and the team do our home...all of us will need to see this

Wild Isles

Wild Isles is a major new BBC natural history series, co-produced with the RSPB, and presented by Sir David Attenborough. The British Isles will be shown as never before
www.rspb.org.uk www.rspb.org.uk

take care

stu
 
Really looking forward to this one :love:
 
Recording all set, should be very good
 
Been waiting on this, can't wait.
 
Lads just brief I expect to be humbled.

Look we make stills and this is motion capture.........I have stood alongside a guy that makes movies,with a £120K rig on a tripod..I'd guess we might see some of his footage. I've talked quietly to him, his nouce is astounding.the images he makes are enhanced by his tools..but they ain't the story behind the image maker. He fed badgers every day for so many years he could shake a bag and they come to see him...he would astound me with a mobile phone.

So very simply I expect all of us that shoot stills of wildlife here UK to be astounded, be inspired on an epic level, and frankly to learn a shed load

It's Sir David's gift to us to try and get us to care for what we have (left)............................an for us togs it'll be a masterclass

bless ya aunty beeb
 
jerry12953 said:
Well said Stuart. It should be a master class and make us all realise what we stand to lose unless we look after it.
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Thank you.at some stage Jerry I'm going to get ya to call me stu ;) ;):LOL:

Gav. @Gav-canon .....buddy I mentioned an expensive rig...........I'd been shooting canon for a while and then I saw this lens which I had no awareness of whatsoever !!

The actual movie camera was utterly beyond my comprehension..but a lens that I knew nothing of with Canon encrypted on it made me go home and do some research. simply mate I just thought you might be interested....possibly others too.

As above some folks are so gifted frankly they could make astonishing images/ videos with anything that said tools like this do fascinate me.manual focus 50-1000mm with integral 1.5 extender. so 50-1500mm in one lens...............................now there's a bit of glass !!

Some reading for ya buddy enjoy ( lol folks probably know of this everyone is more educated than moi).but it's worth "a just in case because" i'm sure in Sir David's new series we will see footage from the same and also as image makers it's cool knowing a tiny bit about the tools

newatlas.com

Canon's most challenging lens design ever: The 50-1000 Cine-Servo

Back in 2014, Canon stunned pro videographers with an absolute monster of a lens. Pro-grade resolution at 4K, with a wide angle of 50 mm and a zoom up to 1,500 with a built in range extender, the Cine-Servo put top-grade glass behind camcorder-like controls to offer unprecedented flexibility. And…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
 
As a side, David Attenborough works with a guy called Doug Allan. Our camera club had him a few years ago as our key speaker. A lovely guy.

Exactly what involvement he's had with Wild Isles I don't know but he will be involved to a point, I'm sure. Him and David are very close.

We are in for a treat.

Doug Allan
 
Stuart Philpott said:
Thank you.at some stage Jerry I'm going to get ya to call me stu ;) ;):LOL:

Gav. @Gav-canon .....buddy I mentioned an expensive rig...........I'd been shooting canon for a while and then I saw this lens which I had no awareness of whatsoever !!

The actual movie camera was utterly beyond my comprehension..but a lens that I knew nothing of with Canon encrypted on it made me go home and do some research. simply mate I just thought you might be interested....possibly others too.

As above some folks are so gifted frankly they could make astonishing images/ videos with anything that said tools like this do fascinate me.manual focus 50-1000mm with integral 1.5 extender. so 50-1500mm in one lens...............................now there's a bit of glass !!

Some reading for ya buddy enjoy ( lol folks probably know of this everyone is more educated than moi).but it's worth "a just in case because" i'm sure in Sir David's new series we will see footage from the same and also as image makers it's cool knowing a tiny bit about the tools

newatlas.com

Canon's most challenging lens design ever: The 50-1000 Cine-Servo

Back in 2014, Canon stunned pro videographers with an absolute monster of a lens. Pro-grade resolution at 4K, with a wide angle of 50 mm and a zoom up to 1,500 with a built in range extender, the Cine-Servo put top-grade glass behind camcorder-like controls to offer unprecedented flexibility. And…
newatlas.com newatlas.com
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You really know how to mash my OCD .. I've been pining over an EF500mm now I want that!!! :LOL: :LOL:
 
Dale. said:
As a side, David Attenborough works with a guy called Doug Allan. Our camera club had him a few years ago as our key speaker. A lovely guy.

Exactly what involvement he's had with Wild Isles I don't know but he will be involved to a point, I'm sure. Him and David are very close.

We are in for a treat.

Doug Allan
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Can't wait to see the work :)

He's had a busy career with 8000 hours underwater with 500+ hours of that under ice :D
 
Looking forward to this. Was in Islay some time ago when they were filming this and got talking to them, including hamza Yassin (who won strictly come dancing, allegedly)- nice guy. Was there when they got the shot they wanted of the white tailed eagles, their last day. Got to see the effort that it takes to make these type of programs, must cost an absolute fortune but quality shows!!
 
Stuart Philpott said:
Sir David and the team do our home...all of us will need to see this

Wild Isles

Wild Isles is a major new BBC natural history series, co-produced with the RSPB, and presented by Sir David Attenborough. The British Isles will be shown as never before
www.rspb.org.uk www.rspb.org.uk

take care

stu
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Cheers,Stu. I see the first episode is this coming Sunday at 7.00pm BBC1 (y) I'll yellow highlight it in my TV/Radio listings so I don't forget.
 
Looking forward to this series. As luck would have it I was on Skomer when they were filming the puffins, I'd all but given up hope of seeing the footage, it was when the pufflings were getting ready to leave the burrows.

Must be fantastic to be able to dedicate so much time to the subjects

Mike
 
Gav-canon said:
Keeping calling him Stuart, he'll panic thinking he's done wrong ;) :LOL: :exit:
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Gav never are truer words spoken than in jest...............I actually duck now when someone calls me stuart..fink it's called pavlovian conditioning :LOL:

Dale John Mike thanks for the anecdotes and all for the replies.

Mike it's that last line of yours...to really really get one's head down and seriously graft.ohh mate to do that !!
 
Good read Jerry thank you..forgive me politics and polititions UGG

are we sitting comfy
bump :D
 
Outstanding (as usual). Huge range of skills in play to make programmes of this standard.
 
Stunning photography.

I loved every second, although I did turn away for the seal pup kill.

Can't wait for the next episode.
 
jerry12953 said:
The most disturbing bit for me was the sequence where the black-headed gull (IIRC) was trying to steal the puffins sandeels.
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Yes I wondered why other Puffins did not help. I once saw a Magpie kill a new Blackbird by raiding the nest. The parent Blackbirds made a lot of noise and within a few minutes several adult Blackbirds were attaching the Magpie who eventually decided to leave the area.

Dave
 
Nature - red in tooth and claw!
 
jerry12953 said:
The most disturbing bit for me was the sequence where the black-headed gull (IIRC) was trying to steal the puffins sandeels.
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That is an ongoing problem for the incoming Puffins, they literally get mobbed and if they miss their nest-hole they are in big trouble!
At least the B/H Gulls target the eels, the Herring Gulls target the Puffins to get the eels!
Interestingly the feisty Terns flying in with Sand-eels seem to remain undisturbed.
 
jerry12953 said:
The most disturbing bit for me was the sequence where the black-headed gull (IIRC) was trying to steal the puffins sandeels.
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Saw that behaviour first hand on the Farne Islands a few years ago. It is a tough watch, but it is what it is.

We were in Zambia in 2017 and we’re ‘lucky enough’ to witness a pack of wild/painted dogs chasing down some local puku. It was amazing to see, but was very brutal and somewhat disturbing.
 
A few mins of orca and 2 years in the making....I always adore the end" how they made it sequences".it realy brings home just how hard wildlife image making can be and how much thought craft and sheer effort goes in to getting what in some ways I personally have come to expect. It seems somewhat shallow to say that.................. it's not that though, I just expect to be astounded by Sir David's programes as the bar has been set so so incredibly high, with his and the collective that surround him's work previously.

As a wanna be wiildlife image maker that is what I find so stupendously inspiring.

Nature is hard core , sure I felt for puffins and the young seal Orca almost playing and yet at the same time teaching with another's death is singularly hard isn't it, but somehow to me it's always been part of the circle of life....a sparrow hawk comes to my garden and kills my ickle mates,that's hard in it's self but she or he has kids too.it's the way of things I can't begrudge them.

I suspect the most harrowing haunting footage I've ever seen , for me, was wolves taking down an adult American Bison...probably filmed in yellowstone,it's so slow so so hard.

I suppose We should see and know of these things if anything it might just bring home to us how incredibly fortunate we are......... all we really need is a warm bed a full tummy and companionship ok in most cases ;) .

..Ickle beasties kill to live it's hard but it just is

but us "humanity" what we do to each other and nature that where my head gets messed up

Cracking watch ,as always, doff of cap !!
 
Watched ep1 twice now.
I love seeing the amazing wildlife from around the world, but it's really great to see a series focussed on our wonderful and diverse wildlife here in the UK.
The images are excellent as always, the slow-mo of the Kingfisher was awesome, just loved the whole program.
 
It was a lovely thing to watch, they must have some powerful noise reduction software... Em never said a word through out ... :p :exit:

.........Love you Em :LOL:
 
Can't wait for tonight's episode.

I wonder if they'll show more of the Kingfishers....and how they filmed them. That would be very interesting.
 
Dale that's funny me I'm after the same thing with the hares which I hope should feature, I sort of thought Gav would be similar but it seems his ears have been burnt and now he wants to know about what the sound guys do.strange old world init:ROFLMAO:

I missed most of it.was doing tography :headbang: I tried for I player but that wouldn't work for us, will have another bash shortly,did see how the got to grips with the tree nesting golden eagles though. which as with everything was an education:cool:
 
Next week is "Grasslands" so I'd guess that your hares will be then (if at all.)
 
Nod said:
Next week is "Grasslands" so I'd guess that your hares will be then (if at all.)
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Yes indeed t'was the opening sequence.ha what a joy.sorry for the slow reply few mins late but but timing is not too bad for a patient man's bump ;) :LOL:
 
For anyone that doesn't know, there is a final episode on ipalyer only about the depletion of our wildlife caused by man and the attempts to change things.
Makes very interesting viewing,
 
After watching about our seas, I want to learn to swim :LOL:
 
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