My new, and Last shots, I hope, The Pier and my trip to Italy

ginger_55 · April 28, 2005

I posted this on the Challenge, though I have not checked to see if the horizon needs straightening. I did want to post the pier, before I was ineligible to post piers, as a courtesy issue. I took this today, April 28, Thursday, along with many others. Folly Beach is on the other side of Charleston. Much more hippy than this side. It would have fit my personality perfectly, but when I moved here it was quite far away from any conveniences.

It does have this fishing pier, it hosts dances in the summer. I hope to get to go sometime. Bill has always been working. You know South Carolina invented the shag, or thinks they did, and it is THE dance. I love to watch it.

Anyway, after my mammogram I went out here to finish up, hopefully, with a challenge entry. The light was difficult for me to work with. I ended up over exposing and reducing my exposure almost a full stop. I like my shots, and I have more. These were done hastily, as I said, I have not checked horizons or anything.

Comments are appreciated as there are different approaches to the pier photography, or I should say, under the pier photography. Even looking at the pier photography. Plus there was an interesting house which I would title my trip to Italy.

I doubt, I know, I won't get everything posted this evening, so I hope you stop back. As usual, your comments are important to me, as proved true in the bridge shot.

ginger

Lucky Hack · April 28, 2005

Hope everything came out alright with the mamo, these are great shots, I like them both but the second one is especially compelling.

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

digismile · April 29, 2005

Ginger,

I like the first photo the best of the two but would probably crop out the right side to limit it to the posts and shadows. As a challenge photo, I think it could be stronger if you explored more of the repeating angle possibilities with the shadows vs the posts.

Great work as usual,
Brad

P.S. Hope the tests all come back fine.

gus · April 29, 2005

#2 under the pier is terrific ginger...i felt a mood as soon as i opened it...like a tempest living in there.

Sort of like a lair....

marlof · April 29, 2005

Both shots are great. I agree with Gus on the second one: it gives you the feel of special place. Like the Keane song "Somewhere only we know". The first one is really exciting when it comes to the challenge theme. I love the different patterns en repetitions. I don't know about the cropping, but that might have something to do with me feeling that this theme is not about having your picture show only patterns and repetitions, but also patterns and repetitions as we find them crossing our path in regular life. The first is a perfect example of that one, and I feel the pier and guy on the right of the pic adds the "real life" aspect to the picture.

Gator · April 29, 2005

Ginger, both are beautiful and you have chosen a very interesting perspective on them. I hear so much self-doubt in you sometimes, take a deep breath and repeat this: I am a very good photographer, I am a very talented visual person, I love to share my visions with others!

You truly are very good, and getting increasingly better all the time! For me, I love the 2nd one best but, that's just my opinion. You know what they say "opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one"! (Hope I didn't offend!)

Be well Gingie, and I hope the mammo is nice and clean!

DoctorIt · April 29, 2005

I'm diggin under the pier. I really have to say, it has a much nicer feeling than that dark bridge we spent so much time on.

I like most how the top isn't flat, so the final shape you see is basically a house, like you'd draw as a little kid.

ginger_55 · April 29, 2005

marlof wrote:

Both shots are great. I agree with Gus on the second one: it gives you the feel of special place. Like the Keane song "Somewhere only we know". The first one is really exciting when it comes to the challenge theme. I love the different patterns en repetitions. I don't know about the cropping, but that might have something to do with me feeling that this theme is not about having your picture show only patterns and repetitions, but also patterns and repetitions as we find them crossing our path in regular life. The first is a perfect example of that one, and I feel the pier and guy on the right of the pic adds the "real life" aspect to the picture.

Yes, I feel that any coffee table book, book of examples, etc. would be more liberal on the definitions of patterns and repetitions.

I do have many more examples of "under the pier", alot being like the one here, I mean the cathedral look out to sea. I feel like, know, that almost any day I could go out and take photos almost identicle to the cathedral look, as long as the tide and the weather cooporate, and that could be a personal theme, too. Alot of miles on my car, but I could do "Under the pier, summer, winter, high tide, rain, hurricane. Etc.

The first one I probably would never be able to get again. And it adds the human factor, I like that. Also the beach is practically empty, that is unusual, maybe it has to do with the fact that the kids are still in school and people are not traveling.

I think one of my greatest frustations with this challenge is the "interpretation" of the challenge subject.

As far as cropping, I have plenty of those. I would not need to crop this one, just use one of those. There is a cathedral type one, a horizontal that I liked in RAW, it incorporates the cathedral with the ocean, I think, and I plan to work that up as far as a few others.

Thanks for commenting. When you see that I have bumped this back up to the top, please look again. I do plan on adding photos through out the day.
I have fruit, too, including my trip to Italy, and more of the bridge. All of which have patterns.

I wish I had some way to meet everyone's comments.............they are all so different, IMO. Tight pattern vs perfect shot, and everything in between.

?????

ginger

adrian_k · April 29, 2005

both are really cool shots.
I'm leaning more towards the first shot but for this challenge crop off the man on the right. It'll focus attention to the pier and the shadows, cos the shadows are really cool.

the 2nd is nice, but I'd want to see a greater DoF, it just looks soft.

ginger_55 wrote:

Yes, I feel that any coffee table book, book of examples, etc. would be more liberal on the definitions of patterns and repetitions.

I do have many more examples of "under the pier", alot being like the one here, I mean the cathedral look out to sea. I feel like, know, that almost any day I could go out and take photos almost identicle to the cathedral look, as long as the tide and the weather cooporate, and that could be a personal theme, too. Alot of miles on my car, but I could do "Under the pier, summer, winter, high tide, rain, hurricane. Etc.

The first one I probably would never be able to get again. And it adds the human factor, I like that. Also the beach is practically empty, that is unusual, maybe it has to do with the fact that the kids are still in school and people are not traveling.

I think one of my greatest frustations with this challenge is the "interpretation" of the challenge subject.

As far as cropping, I have plenty of those. I would not need to crop this one, just use one of those. There is a cathedral type one, a horizontal that I liked in RAW, it incorporates the cathedral with the ocean, I think, and I plan to work that up as far as a few others.

Thanks for commenting. When you see that I have bumped this back up to the top, please look again. I do plan on adding photos through out the day.
I have fruit, too, including my trip to Italy, and more of the bridge. All of which have patterns.

I wish I had some way to meet everyone's comments.............they are all so different, IMO. Tight pattern vs perfect shot, and everything in between.

?????

ginger

ginger_55 · April 29, 2005

The Children's Room: 4 28 2005, by ginger
This is my entry. I have other ones of the cathedral look, many, some softer which I delete as I find them and some probably much sharper. I changed the depth of field many times. I played with it. I took this pier from many perspectives. This is my favorite. I worked it up alot in RAW, then touched it up a bit in levels and saturation, just a tad. I did no shadows/highlights, I thought about doing no sharpening, it didn't seem to need any, but I ended up doing it Rutt's long way with layers.

I wish I could have pleased everyone, including myself, please still make comments, I am. I may even post more here. But this is my favorite. It incorporates the repititious patterns heavily and just adds the human element. To me it is a lighter picture with a whimsical side. That plays on my senses. I hope someone gets the enjoyment from it that I do. This same scene will never be like this again. Those children will grow up somewhere besides on the beach. It is, to me, a very good "get". The patterns take over 3/4s of the photo or more. I borrowed the idea of children and their imagination from someone who posted, humungus I think. Thank you all.

ginger

Folly Beach, South Carolina, USA 2005
Children on the beach as seen from under the pier........
"cast your eyes ahead and to the side"

Have a great day and weekend.

I have photography all weekend, but not this.
A nature seminar tomorrow, and a baptism shoot
on Sunday.

marlof · April 29, 2005

Excellent choice, G! I really love it. And please, please don't take the challenges too seriously when it comes to interpretation. If one thing, let the challenges trigger you to see your world a little different. You're doing an excellent job with that, and who cares what other people think about the challenge theme? It's your hobby and it's your fun! Don't let your ideas about what others think spoil that. Pleasing others should be the least of your worries. Although of course it's nice when - like now - you like what you did yourself, and others are pleased as well.

digismile · April 29, 2005

I love this photo Ginger! I didn't realize there was such colour in the pier.

Great eye, Great job

Brad

Mitchell · April 30, 2005

Wonderful shot, Ginger. Truly the essence of patterns and repetition with a beautifully lit composition.

mitch

ginger_55 · April 30, 2005

Thank you so much. I feel so good about that photo.

I am discovering the truth most of us know, but tend to forget.........when it is dry, it can be very dry...................but when it rains, it often pours.

I, uh, have more patterns and repetitions. A Peacock, of all things. This is the time of year birds mate and raise their young. Wait til you all see some of this, if I can stay up long enough to post a shot or two.

And I have no idea what to do, I absolutely love my beach shot. So if you all see the peacock, well, comments might help, or not.:D

g (I just got in from a very long day, most of it at the seminar, but I did escape to Barnes and Noble a bit before coming home. The seminar was the most exhausting thing I have done so far. Everything hurt before, now...............)

ginger_55 · May 1, 2005

4/30/2005

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Flyinggina · May 1, 2005

Wow. :jawdrop Both gorgeous shots. The second one is a real show stopper and inho would make a really good entry in challenge 37. The bridge (which I love), the pier and now these. An embarassment of riches.

Virginia

bfjr · May 1, 2005

So now after all your hard work and ................

uhoh

D

You now have 3 choices ................... will this ever stop :uhoh

uhoh:):

And the last peacock shot, says "Pick me , Pick ME".

Now I have to go and feel bad about my ever sinking "FLY"

:lol4 :cry :lol4

ginger_55 · May 1, 2005

Thanks everyone. I am kind of embarrassed that I was so tired last night. I really do not think I worked them up to my best.............and I have others, too.

The problem is a flaw here or there narrows it, but then I have more than that.

I love the pier shot. I can't imagine that this would not make an excellent entry, the peacock. But I love the pier shot, and actually, artistically, I did have more to do with that.

Birds are shameless at this time of year, and bright plumage is one way to work it.

ginger (too bad this ends tomorrow, I can't make a decision today, I don't think. Gotta get coffee.)

ginger_55 · May 1, 2005

bfjr wrote:

So now after all your hard work and ................uhohD

You now have 3 choices ................... will this ever stop :uhohuhoh:):

And the last peacock shot, says "Pick me , Pick ME".

Now I have to go and feel bad about my ever sinking "FLY" :lol4 :cry :lol4

Ben, I like your fly, not that i like flys in general, but esthetically, I like it.

ginger (and I do see the humor. love your response. am going to find a rookery and hide in it after tomorrow.)

Mitchell · May 1, 2005

Ginger,

Beautiful birds. The first one seems a little OOF at the eye. Despite the plumage, I am still drawn to the eye which does not seem sharp enough. The second one is a beauty. Have you tried to lighten (burn) the eye area a little? It seems a little too dark. The second one would be a great entry, but I think your pier shot is a winner.

mitch

ChrisJ · May 1, 2005

I think this shot is wonderful. I really like the way it goes to the vanishing point, disappearing into the ocean.

Chris

ginger_55 wrote:

This is my entry.

ginger

Folly Beach, South Carolina, USA 2005
Children on the beach as seen from under the pier........
"cast your eyes ahead and to the side"

ginger_55 · May 10, 2005

95Mcaj wrote:

I think this shot is wonderful. I really like the way it goes to the vanishing point, disappearing into the ocean.

Chris

Chris, thanks, I love that shot, too. I saw mention of it on google, thought it was about someone else, then thought it sounded familiar.

I am going to have to put prices on my stuff today.

ginger