If you’re heading for a shoot in Scotland you better watch out for the rain…
Tag: Locations
Maritime Museum, Irvine
I spend quite a lot of time in Irvine. It has a cracking harbour and beach and you can catch lots of folk enjoying it in all seasons (although “enjoying” might be more appropriate for winter). Most weekends you’ll also find horses and their humans going for a gallop along the sand. There’s a fair few birds around to be captured if your lens is long enough.
But this time we’re here for the indoor portion of the Scottish Maritime Museum. There’s a charge to get in but it’s genuinely interesting. The west of Scotland relied on the Clyde and its shipbuilding expertise when it was growing during the industrial revolution. Most of that has disappeared now but we have places like this to help us remember. I, admittedly, never tried to utilise my tripod but they are probably open to their use when it’s not super busy. And there’s plenty of rust…. I have a rust problem….
Loads of stuff to get you thinking and well worth a visit.
Riverside Museum
So it was the final shoot for my intermediate night school course and I’m gonna miss it. I still join a group every second Sunday so the learning and fun will continue with the friends I made there.
Back to the location and Riverside is still known to some of us as the Transport Museum and we get easily confused as it previously lived in the Kelvin Hall building. Opened in 2011 and designed by the amazing architect, Zaha Hadid, Riverside is a purpose built site and united the history of transport in Glasgow and the greater area with the tall ship Glenlee. Filled with cars, bikes, trains, trams… if it goes, it goes here.
Glenlee alone is worth a visit. Both are free to enter and are camera friendly. Busy, unsurprisingly, on weekends and holidays, so not always open to tripods. The mock street has a photographer’s studio so you can ogle some lovely old cameras. It’s a great place for shots but can be dark. Good luck and high ISOs are needed.
On a good day you can enjoy views along the Clyde with the Titan crane and Clydebank to the west and SEC/BBC/Hydro/Squinty bridge/Science Centre to the east…. You don’t even need a wide angle to get all those in. This place really is a gift to photographers.
Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis
Sunday’s shoot was out in the ancient part of Glasgow. Not short on walkers, dogs and tourists this area. Oh and be prepared for the hill but it does offer amazing views over the south east side. The weather and the morning sun were against me for that but there are endless details and opportunities for shots.
The Cathedral is a thing of beauty. Still a working church 800 years on, they do allow cameras inside (tripods by negotiation). The light levels can be low but worth it for the architecture and stained glass. Make sure you head downstairs to see the final resting place of Glasgow’s Saint, St Mungo. As it’s still a working place of worship, please be respectful and remember to be aware of services that could be running.
Dippy Visits Kelvingrove
A quick trip to Kelvingrove to see Dippy while he is in town. I’m loving longer exposures to allow the people to blur. Taken from the first floor so you can get him all in…. well he is 26 meters long.
Long exposure Dippy. So this was just balanced on a microfiber cloth I keep in my bag for soggy days and using a remote trigger. You could probably manage to remove people altogether with enough neutral density filters…. I only own a 2 stop so not enough to go that far. Super busy at weekends and not tripod friendly. But you better catch him before he moves on – Dippy On Tour. (You’ve got till 6th May)
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