Photography in the Pentland Hills, Edinburgh, Scotland
I decided a couple of days ago, to start going out into the Scottish hills with my camera and drone, to test some technical things out such as setting up my camera onto the tripod higher up and doing some drone videos and panoramic image. I purchased a pretty cheep set of wireless mics to even Vlog on what I was doing. Yesterday was the very first time I did a Vlog with the receiver in the DSLR and a mic on my jersey. They were charged up the night before.
They worked really well and the sound quality was good, I was five or six meters from the receiver without any issues.
From Amazon. Wireless lavaleir microphone for IPhone, Android, and camera. Good quality.
The Pentland Hills are close to Edinburgh, making this area a nice retreat from the busy city life. I live approximately thirty minutes from there and its an excellent area to escape, and explore new paths. Its busy! I parked there yesterday morning around 0830 at Flotterstone car park with Betsy my Cockapoo.
Me with Betsy at the start of our walk with the camera gear in the daysack.
We set off and it was really quiet, see a couple of people there on bikes, walkers with dogs, and trail runners. Also families out just enjoying the peacefulness.
The route was around 12.5kms going up to Turnhouse hill first, which is 506m above sea level, and had lovely views of the surrounding towns and landscape. Edinburgh city can not be seen from here, you would need to be on the other side of the Pentlands to see that. A quick video of me leaving the hill as I headed upto Carnethy Hill, which is slightly highte, its the second highest in the Pentlands at 573m. It took roughtly 25 minutes to reach the top. I took a panorama and orbit video there, the wind was light. The views here really open up and enjoyed the moment. We walked down to Green Cleugh at the Howe, I stopped here had something to eat and made a really nice coffee from my coffee beand with an Aero press Go! It took less than six minutes to put on a pan of water, boil it and pore the water through the coffee press. Magic! I took more images, and did a small Vlog there. It was my first time talking into the camera, it felt uncomfortable.
From Amazon. Aeropress Go portable travel coffee press kit. It’s really worth it, honestly.
I spent around thirty minutes here, admiring the views and relaxing. The walk back took another sixty minutes or so, and the area got a bit more busier. I took a panoramic image with the drome, which was two images stitched together in LR.
I took other images along the way and video too.
Green Cleugh - Pentland hills, grid reference NT 189 620. Image from the Mavic Mini 4 Pro.
I really enjoyed taking my camera gear onto the hills and there will be a few more, I need to allow extra time on the walks, due to getting the camera gear out and back into the daysack, including all the setting up etc. Keeping fit and doing photography together is a nice thing to do, without any pressure. It would be a lot different in the winter months.
Edinburgh is a great capital city of Scotland, and the Pentland hills is not too far to explore and escape the city life. Below is the route and stats from todays brilliant walk away from the stresses of life.
Stats from todays photography trip onto the scottish hills. I walked in a clockwise direction.
