Beneath Santa Monica Pier II
This is the view sideways from the photo of pilings with gull (link), my favourite image from the photo workshop I took in Los Angeles.
There were a lot of guys with metal detectors on the beach, including a couple working underneath the pier.
If you didn’t see my poll yesterday (here) check it out and vote for the best 4 images from my course with Sam Abell.
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Very nice…seeing them again makes me wonder why those posts were set at those angles. Any ideas?
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Hi Lynn. I think the different angles are probably deliberate and probably confer some kind of extra rigidity when the surf is really pounding in here.
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Great image. Alik Griffin does great work around this pier in digital.
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Thanks Lou, and thanks for the name. There is some interesting stuff on Alik’s blog, and instagram.
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Yes, his digital camera and lens reviews are really in depth. Nice person also.
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I love this shot, too. Just left a message about the poll on that post. I am still smarting at the auto rebuff I received. (Melodramatic sob!! 😭😭)
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I am so sorry that my blog has induced melodrama in your life. It sure as heck wasn’t on purpose.
I am glad you like this shot as well. I did not even consider it for my long list, for no good reason as it should have been there. I especially like the background details – the other (one or two?) metal detectors, the pedestrian and the pigeons. They are well arranged, though I could barely see them in the bright outdoors – I concentrated on getting the nearest guy in the right place, the other things just fell into place. In this shot, not in the three or four others I took.
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It worked so well, especially as you couldn’t see those pesky moving figures! Yes, it would be in your poll list!
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Should be . . .
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I could have used this one, but I need to do quite a bit of post just to pull those figures out of the background as it was so much brighter than the area under the pier. For the class he did not want us cropping or doing any real edits to the images – out of camera was the idea. So, I did not consider it for my long list.
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I understand. And what a great teacher in really pushing you all to work hard on the composition.
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I agree, it was really about microcomposing the scenes, leaving aside much info about macrocomposition. I think the operating assumption was that we were all experienced enough to be able to find interesting things to shoot, and were more likely to need help within those compositions.
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