7-night / 8-day Astrophotography in Norfolk!

𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!

• Includes accommodation and return transport from London
• Fully insured photography tour operator
• Star trackers and filters to borrow

In this workshop, we’ll be making the most of the dark skies of Norfolk’s Coastal Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a beautiful protected landscape well known for its lack of light pollution, and boasting two official Dark Sky Discovery Sites.

During the evenings, we’ll explore multiple locations, such as the picturesque Happisburgh lighthouse, windmills, and historic ruins, to search for stunning nightscape opportunities, including photographing the Milky Way and star trails, as well as capturing some bonus sunsets using our sets of award-winning Kase filters (one available to each participant).

We’ll be staying in a spacious modern barn conversion, just 5 minutes from Happisburgh Lighthouse, so we can quickly take advantage of clear skies (see feature image).

It won’t just be the Milky Way we’ll be hunting. In the workshop, we’ll be keeping an eye out for the elusive Noctilucent Clouds, extremely rare high clouds of ice crystals that are lit up to produce a spectacular blue/silver display in the night sky.

What we’ll cover:

• Intro to astrophotography equipment
• Apps used for planning
• How to focus at night
• Settings for correct exposure – manual mode in astrophotography
• Effect of choosing different shutter speeds
• How to combat noise in astrophotography
• High ISO vs single shot with a star tracker
• Use of star trackers
• Light pollution and filters
• Lighting our subjects at night (light painting)
• Editing our pictures using software (Lightroom Classic + plugins, but methods transferable to other software, plus free dedicated astrophotography software)

Equipment to borrow!
To help our workshop participants capture great shots, we have a selection of lenses to borrow, including:

• The highly regarded 14mm f/2.8 lenses for Canon EF mount, Nikon F mount, and Sony E mount.
• Multiple Move Shoot Move star trackers that we’ll set up and use to get longer exposures of the sky.
• Astro filters! - Kase Light pollution filter and Kase Star Glow filter.

This astrophotography workshop is a relaxed learning atmosphere and is suitable for beginner photographers with minimal equipment, or intermediate/advanced photographers.

Please note: Participants will need to be able to change their settings in manual mode, such as shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and be able to switch off the autofocusing on their camera or lens.

𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬:
• Return transport from London, & within Norfolk.
• Accommodation - Beautiful barn conversion (private rooms and en-suites available, self-catering, walking distance/short drive to lovely hotel restaurant, large Tesco short drive away)
• Professional photo guide
• Kase filter sets available for each participant
• UK Photo Tours is a fully insured tour operator. Your payments are protected.

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝: Food & drink, personal travel insurance.

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞:
Single Occupancy: £1,500pp
Single occupancy with ensuite: £1750pp
(Book direct through our secure website for the Nightscapes in Norfolk tours here. No need to make the £1 payment on Meetup)
Note: If you pay the £1 nominal Meetup event charge, we will refund it.

For more information, recommended equipment, & photos, visit:

𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐮𝐤-𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨-𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬-𝐢𝐧-𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤-𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩

We hope to see you there!

Dion Hitchcock

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