Iainm wrote:
Yeah, it was pretty bad up there. A lot of camper vans and tents setting up for the night around the car park, cars parked up along the side of the road for a good couple of hundred metres.
I arrived about 2 hours before sunset and that seemed to be the ideal time to get parked and set up. After most of the day visitors, but before the evening photographers. There were only a couple of photographers set up before me, but soon the crowds arrived and there must have ended up around 40-50 folk trying to set up for a shot of the light house. I'm new to photography and I only have very basic kit, here I had a Canon 1200D and kit lens with a travel tripod. I was actually quite intimidated by all the others there with their pro kit trying to steal my spot.
September/October should be quieter, that's my favourite time to visit. I've been visiting family in Skye all of my life and I have never seen it as busy as the last few years have been.
Yeah we went up the same-ish time last year to Skye, although the other way round, Torridon the first week, Skye the second and all the usual busy spots were fairly quiet, apart from the Fairy Pools, which even on a fairly dull day was absolutely rammed full of people. The most surreal one was standing at Kilt Rock well after midnight shooting a freak Aurora display, surrounded by a load of dutch people
The Quiraing was quiet though. I've never shot Neist Point, so i'm sort of looking forward to seeing it in the flesh.
I know what you mean about feeling intimidated by others in those situations. I was the same when i started out, but at the end of the day, you've every bit as much right to be there as anyone else, and i'd wager you got a much better shot than many of the other 49 or so.
