London Outdoor Photography! (walks and workshops)

7-night / 8-day Nightscapes & Astrophotography in Norfolk!

Fri, Jul 10 · 10:30 AM BST

West Acton, Princes Gardens, London, GB

𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞!

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

𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞:
Single Occupancy: £1,500pp
Single occupancy with ensuite: £1750pp

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

𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐮𝐤-𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨-𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦

Astrophotography! (mailing list only to register your interest - NOT an event)

Thu, Dec 30, 2027 · 7:00 PM GMT

West Acton, Princes Gardens, London, GB

Please note: This is a MAILING LIST ONLY, NOT AN EVENT.

This is for people who wish to be contacted when we run Astro events (as per feedback, as Meetup's email communication has been sketchy at best for years).

We'll announce our multi-day Astro tours and occasional single-night events here first, then via the usual Meetup announcement.

The Milky Way season runs from late February to early September each year.

We're going to be holding several astrophotography events during the year, so we're putting together an email list of those people interested so we can contact you directly (as many people miss the Meetup messages & emails) and offer you early access to book places at the events.

We'll photograph the Milky Way at various locations throughout the year, teach you how to take star trails and capture special events such as meteor showers and supermoons.

How it will work:
We'll likely let you know the prospective date(s) a couple of weeks in advance. Two days before the event, we'll update and confirm once we have the short-term weather forecasts. Due to weather conditions, some events may be scheduled or cancelled at short notice. Weather forecasting just isn't that good yet, I'm afraid!

We'll provide the transport to the chosen location(s) up to 2 hours away. To reduce time stuck in London traffic, the meeting point will be at our studio in West Acton, a 3-5 minute walk from West Acton tube station (Central Line) and North Ealing tube station (Piccadilly Line). Street parking is available.

Equipment:

• With a tripod and cable release, anyone can take star trails and meteor shower photos with a standard camera and lens.
• For single-shot Milky Way photos, we recommend lenses with an aperture f/2.8 or lower, with a focal length of 24mm or lower. (Edit: a 35mm f/1.8 is also a great lens if you're able to use post-processing software to stitch photos together)
• Using either the high ISO technique or a star tracker allows "slower" lenses to be used, ie a minimum aperture of f/4 or f/5.6
• As usual, we'll have a few dedicated setups and lenses to borrow between the group – just bring an extra SD card.

We look forward to exploring the night skies with you!

Note: This listing is not an event in itself (ignore time & date). The £2 payment will put you on our astrophotography list and allow us to email you announcing upcoming astrophotography events prior to them being published on the Meetup group listing. We've done this as people often miss/ignore Meetup announcement emails.

Kind regards,
Dion

UK Photo Tours

• Nightscapes in Norfolk Astrophotography Tour
• Perseid Meteor Shower & Milky Way Tour in Cornwall