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While on Bass Rock on Tuesday I shot some video clips as well as stills during my three hours on the island.  I shot the video using both my X-T2 and X-Pro2, plus I used my new iPhone 6S Plus.  While the X-T2 and iPhone are both capable of shooting 4K, I shot the video clips in 1080P to keep the consistency across the three devices. The clips were edited in iMovie. The music was obtained from freemusicarchive.org and is a track entitled 'Surface Tension' by a group called 'A Ninja Slob Drew Me'. Here is the short video which gives anyone who has never visited Bass Rock a good idea of the natural spectacle that we have here in East Lothian and why people from all over the world travel here just to witness the gannets of Bass Rock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on th...

The main advantage of the Fujifilm X-T2 is the new continuous autofocus system that the brand new camera has.  I have used it extensively over the past three months on motorsport subjects and I also ran a test on the Isle of May a few weeks ago, follow focusing the small and agile Atlantic Puffins in flight around the island. Last Tuesday I was able to further test the Continuous AF on on the X-T2 by photographing the Gannets flying around Bass Rock.  Now Gannets are much larger and are easier to track than the small Puffins, but because there are so many birds in a relatively small area, following these seabirds presented several challenges for the X-T2. Now the X-T2 has a customised AF-C function where you can select one of five presets in the menu and also have a sixth custom function where you can override the presets if you wish.   Camera Settings For the birds on Bass Rock I used two different settings.  Set 5 which is for erratically...

Yesterday morning, after three months of trying, I finally got to land on Bass Rock to visit the Gannet colony that is visible from the end of my road here in Dunbar.  The Bass has been described as one of the natural wonders of the world by no less than Sir David Attenborough, so who am I to argue with 'the man'?  I just also happen to agree with him! On Monday evening, for the fifth time this year, I waited anxiously for a text from the Scottish Seabird Centre to say that the trip had been cancelled. No text arrived so I set the alarm clock for 5:30am and went down to Dunbar harbour to meet our guide Maggie and the other guests on this trip out to Bass Rock on the Dunbar based fishing boat 'Fisher Lassie'.   Now we had got this far on the 26th June and with the island shrouded in mist I still wasn't convinced we would be able to land. However my doubts were banished when the mist lifted enough to see Bass Rock and the thousands of Gannets that ...