Here is a list of club activities planned from September 2024 to April 2025. Please register your interest on the club’s Facebook group or email Derek Muller (dgmlr@icloud.com) if you are interested.
STRIKE A POSING – Saturday 14th September 2024 @10.30 or 1.00pm
What to Shoot There – Each other and people
Where – To Be Decided as can go up town or Musselburgh.
DESCRIPTION
Posing and portraits in Princes Street Gardens. informal portraiture sessions. We use each other as models. We bring simple props like hats, bright jackets, umbrellas or sunglasses. We pose for each other, we practice directing our models. We will have a good laugh and can help some people use their camera.
We can try staging scenes, asking each other to walk in a certain way, or stand in a certain place.
To get you in the mood here is a link on how to direct your models to strike their best pose:
Let’s meet on the steps of the Royal Scottish Academy on Princes Street/the Mound and then we can make our way down into the west side of Princes Street Gardens, or we can meet in Lewisham Park Musselburgh which has some interesting areas.
If we go to the gardens and the weather be poor we could stay sheltered under the columns of the RSA building and use them as a backdrop. We could also go down to the new Scottish aisle of the National Gallery and work there as the light is good.
If anyone wishes we could stop for a spot of lunch in a local hostelry
A TRIP TO THE HERITAGE – Mike
Saturday 26th October 2024 Day trip time TBC
What to Shoot There – autumn colour photoshoot
Where – Nr Dunkeld
DESCRIPTION.
The hermitage is a gorge walk along the River Bran. The trees are huge and at the time of our visit will be showing their best autumn colours.
There are also very impressive waterfalls and an ancient bridge and the hermitage viewpoint to photograph too.
A landscape photographer’s dream.
Mike Clark
A SENSE OF SPEED – Saturday 26th October 2024 @ 10:30 or 1pm
What to Shoot there – Capturing Movement
Where – Thinking the lagoons in Musselburgh or the cricket ground in Lewisham Park
DESCRIPTION.
Panning the camera as a cyclist car or animal moves past quickly. The skill of panning the camera to blur the background but capture the moving subject in focus.
Dogs running, Cyclists cycling, Ducks swimming, Birds flying
Location TBC
A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM – Saturday 23rd November 2024 @ 10.30 or 1.00pm
What To Shoot There – Capturing light through the old and new
Where – Chamber Street Museum
DESCRIPTION.
The light floods into the museum illuminating passages and exhibits and people in different ways.
There are so many different opportunities to take pictures indoors if light is good or bad. You can go all the way up to the roof terrace to get shots of Edinburgh rooftops over to the castle. You can pick out interesting exhibits around the halls. You can people watch capturing them in doorways or moving through the halls
When you are burnt ooot you can grab a coffee and cake, The museum is free to enter but the cake is not free.
More info to be confirmed
CHRISTMAS MARKET Saturday14th December 2024 @ 10.30 or 1.00pm
What To Shoot There – Capturing Christmas Cheer
Where – TBC
DESCRIPTION.
Need we say more some street photography of the hustle and bustle of the Christmas market. Everyone will be so happy and will be loving spending all their money on presents no one needs or wants but will say its the best ever cause its Christmas
We may move this to an evening so we can capture the lights of the Christmas shops up town
WINTER LANDSCAPE TREES Saturday 25th January 2025 @ 10.30 or 1.00pm
What To Shoot There – Stark structure of trees abstract graphic
Where – East Lothian
DESCRIPTION.
We can escape to Dalkeith country park where there are loads and loads of trees. There are also lots of types of trees with an ancient wood with real intertwine bark and branches. It will be muddy so bring your boots.
For those who are no so interested in trees there is also the old house, a river with a weir, big stone bridges, an interesting orangery, animals, woodland walks with structures hiding
WOODLAND FLOWERS Saturday 26th April 2025 @ 10.30 or 1.00pm
Where – We will find a wood to go to I have several in mind.
DESCRIPTION.
The woodlands will be becoming alive with new growth with lots of tiny flowers showing us the promise of a brighter summer. So the saying “small is beautiful” is a comforting saying I personally have held onto all my life, but thats another story……… so we shall be looking at all the small stuff that is really amazing when you get down on the ground and start snapping.
Bring a small been bag or mini tripod so you can get your camera inches from the ground so we can create a very shallow depth of field with foreground and background out of focus but the lovely leaves and flowers which will obviously be illuminated by you led torch will burst into your shot like a beacon of joy and happiness.
Waterproof trousers and knee pads will be essential. There will be others on hand to help the oldies of the group get back up off the ground.
Look up the photography of Charles Everett as he has got this type of photography down to a fine art.
POSSIBLE IDEA NOT FIXED
Mining Museum Still to be confirmed Date – TBC 10.30 or 1.00pm
What To Shoot There – Industrial Heritage
Where – paste in google maps 55°56’07.5″N 3°11’23.4″W
DESCRIPTION.
Mining was an incredibly important industry in the Lothians during the 19th and up to the later part of the 20th century. Many jobs were lost when the pits closed and communities decimated. Most of the pits were demolished and repurposed but one pit in Midlothian was saved and turned into the National Mining Museum Scotland. http://www.nationalminingmuseum.com Check out the website for more info.
Some of the miners who worked down the pit at Newtongrange now act as volunteer guides taking visitors into the mine and explaining what conditions were like when they worked there.
Today we have a special guided tour which will last for an hour and a half with plenty of opportunities to take coal black photos! After that we will be escorted to a non public area where we can take photos of the architecture and back yard. We probably won’t finish until at least 3.00pm so I suggest you have something to eat prior to the event, there is a cafe at the Museum. Also there is a large free car park plus public transport available. There is a reduced charge for group visits: £8.50 for those of you lucky enough to be under 60 and £6.50 for those of us not so lucky!
Afterwards we can meet at the Justinlees Inn 1-5 Dalhousie Rd, Eskbank, Dalkeith EH22 3AT. I haven’t reserved a table as I’m not sure how many people will wish to carry on this late.
Musselburgh Camera Club 