Air 2 Scottish Highlands

Eewan · Sep 24, 2020

With what was likely to be the last of the good weather we'll have for a while I took off up to the Highlands for a few days.

Drumsagard · Sep 24, 2020

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching it! Which castle was that?

TreeHugger · Sep 24, 2020

I would have made a day around that castle

Alexander Of Oz · Sep 24, 2020

Really nicely put together @Eewan ! I can only imagine the tremendous amount of love and time put into creating this.

Dale D · Sep 25, 2020

Eewan said:
With what was likely to be the last of the good weather we'll have for a while I took off up to the Highlands for a few days.

That was a wonderful film! I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Nicely paced, well edited, good and very fitting music track, and great capture of the Highlands scenery. Great job!

FunYin · Sep 25, 2020

Fantastic production. I am curious, seems like it's you on the SUP; did you operate the drone for those shots or did you have assistance. Sorry if this seems like a silly question. All said, very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
B.

zeusfl · Sep 25, 2020

Very nice editing and music.

Squidinc · Sep 25, 2020

Epic! Wonderful production. Throughly enjoyed it all from start to finish. ??

kwolfskill · Sep 25, 2020

Love the video, especially the train trestle! But, I'm seeing a lot of artifacting in the interior of clouds and fog at the beginning of the video. Does anyone else see that? Is that normal, or an issue with Youtube for me? I'm watching it at 1920 X 1080 @25fps, with Youtube saying my connection is 54699 Kbps on a fast machine, so I should be getting the best that YT can give the video.

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

Drumsagard said:
Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching it! Which castle was that?

Thanks. The castle's not in the Highlands which is why you probably can't think which one it is. It's Castle Campbell/Gloom out by Dollar.

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

TreeHugger said:
I would have made a day around that castle

Sadly it was closed, so this was the only way I could actually get a better look at it

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

Alexander Of Oz said:
Really nicely put together @Eewan ! I can only imagine the tremendous amount of love and time put into creating this.

Thanks Alexander, much appreciated!

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

Dale D said:
That was a wonderful film! I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. Nicely paced, well edited, good and very fitting music track, and great capture of the Highlands scenery. Great job!

Thanks, Dale. Glad you liked it!

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

FunYin said:
Fantastic production. I am curious, seems like it's you on the SUP; did you operate the drone for those shots or did you have assistance. Sorry if this seems like a silly question. All said, very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
B.

Thanks, FunYin. Not a silly question at all. It is me on the SUP, but I've just used a few of the intelligent flight modes while out on the water so I can get some video of myself. If you look closely you can see that the controller is tucked inside my bag so I can grab it if needed. I honestly can't say I recommend launching and landing a drone from the middle of a loch on a paddleboard though, it's a tad nerve-wracking, especially when the downdraft starts shifting the board about

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

zeusfl said:
Very nice editing and music.

Thanks, zeusfl!

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

Squidinc said:
Epic! Wonderful production. Throughly enjoyed it all from start to finish. ??

Much appreciated, Squidinc.

Eewan · Sep 25, 2020

kwolfskill said:
Love the video, especially the train trestle! But, I'm seeing a lot of artifacting in the interior of clouds and fog at the beginning of the video. Does anyone else see that? Is that normal, or an issue with Youtube for me? I'm watching it at 1920 X 1080 @25fps, with Youtube saying my connection is 54699 Kbps on a fast machine, so I should be getting the best that YT can give the video.

Cheers, kwolfskill, glad you liked the video and the Harry Potter train

I think you're right about the artifacting. I use a program called Handbrake to slim down video sizes before I put them online and they're usually spot on, but it does seem to have beefed the beginning of this one a little

FunYin · Sep 26, 2020

Eewan said:
Thanks, FunYin. Not a silly question at all. It is me on the SUP, but I've just used a few of the intelligent flight modes while out on the water so I can get some video of myself. If you look closely you can see that the controller is tucked inside my bag so I can grab it if needed. I honestly can't say I recommend launching and landing a drone from the middle of a loch on a paddleboard though, it's a tad nerve-wracking, especially when the downdraft starts shifting the board about

Very cool. Hats off to you for launching and landing off of the SUP!

Mavic Maxwell · Sep 26, 2020

That was wonderfully put together.
Scenery like that always buoys the spirit and brightens my day.
Cheers mate from Down Under

Drumsagard · Sep 26, 2020

Eewan said:
Thanks. The castle's not in the Highlands which is why you probably can't think which one it is. It's Castle Campbell/Gloom out by Dollar.

I actually thought it looked like Castle Campbell, but thought it must be another since you said you were in the Highlands lol