Flying Scotsman at Bluebell Railway
08/23/2023
Tabitha and I went on the Flying Scotsman. I admired this train as a kid, and being able to see it up close, and ride on it was a weird dormant childhood dream to fulfil.
I wanted to try and get a cool picture but was pretty sure I would never get one on the platform (sadly I was more right than I anticipated - it was so busy) so Tabitha and I left a little early and scoped out a couple of spots where the track crosses a road to park up and throw the drone up to try and get a picture.
This was where I learned that the drone's stills lag is actually a shutter lag and not a processing lag (i.e it doesn't release the shutter and then spend time processing like my phone does - it does some stuff, then captures your picture, which makes moving subjects impossible to capture if they're moving in-to-out of the frame. I got this first picture on my fifth attempt, and I still consider it 80/20 luck/skill. Still, I got the shot; but not without some compromise in my framing to increase the chance of getting the train in frame. I refuse to drop from 48MP.
![DJI 0037](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/DJI_0037_2023-08-23-203034_kvea.jpeg)
The shot
![2 G5 A2660](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/2G5A2660.jpeg)
There was a lot of people on the platform, and I think I accidentally knocked my exposure compensation up without realising. It was super bright though.
![2 G5 A2666](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/2G5A2666.jpeg)
![2 G5 A2668](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/2G5A2668.jpeg)
Out of the window and up. Not really of anything, but decent b-roll.
![2 G5 A2672](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/2G5A2672.jpeg)
![2 G5 A2686](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/2G5A2686.jpeg)
![87fd8641 eebc 4ca8 a6ad 0ad450a9ff35](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/87fd8641-eebc-4ca8-a6ad-0ad450a9ff35.jpeg)
Taken by Allyson
![DJI 0026](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/DJI_0026.jpeg)
Too early
![DJI 0032](https://content.tandy.is/flying-scotsman-at-bluebell-railway/_f1500/DJI_0032.jpeg)
Too early, but still kinda cool