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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
I’m not sure where it says in the Health and Safety manual that we should go straight onto Steadicam at 6am call time and keep Tommy in the rig until midnight. It happens… very regularly.
Here are a few little recent occurances of [...]

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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .

Another solid all day Steadicam promo for Dave Miller DoP. A little rest at the end for the body rig. I am frequently asked on Steadicam jobs to make it less “Steady”. They want something smoother than handheld but they don’t want nailed [...]

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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .

Pendulum Watercolor from Thomas English on Vimeo.
I camera operated for the world renowned Joe Dyer DoP extraordinaire and my good buddies Barney Steel and Mike Sharpe from The Found Collective. These guys are geniuses at integrating VFX and SFX. They know their [...]

Thomas English, UK based Steadicam Operator 07970 025 389
Whilst not a Steadicam job. A few months ago I was asked to operate on a promo for Bonobo. The orginal idea was to come up with some kind of hot head that would constantly turn with no remorse for framing. The choreography was going to have [...]

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Thomas English, UK based Steadicam Operator 07970 025 389
I am doing what is a dirty low-mode shot. The rig is turned upside down to get the camera lower however here the camera is upside down too (the dirty part). The advantage of the dirty low-mode is how quickly I can get into low-mode. It can [...]