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Cemal Ekin
{K:2309} 11/24/2002
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Thanks for setting this straight!
Cemal
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Gary Martin
{K:579} 11/21/2002
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First, I want to thank everyone for their comments on this post. To answer your question, Cemel, the pier lights on Lake Michigan have been standing on those piers for many decades. If I'm not mistaken, at St. Joseph, the inner (larger) light leans slightly to the right while the smaller, outer lighthouse leans very noticably to the left although that lean is not as obvious in this photo as in my first post to usefilm.com which was titled, "The Last Fisherman."
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Cemal Ekin
{K:2309} 11/21/2002
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Gorgeous! I agree with Gary, a vertical shot is more effective with two strong vertcial elements. The clouds at the top remind me of dancing flames in a fireplace. Well, we are looking at the largest firepalce we can see anyway.
Is the first light house tilted to the right or is it my imagination. The photo does not seem to be tilted but I see a drooping shoulder on the first light house.
Cemal
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Gary Martin
{K:579} 11/18/2002
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Thanks for the instant feedback, Vince. I've got some other shots from other evenings that week. More will be coming, but I'll probably post some of the other lights that I've photographed here on the Great Lakes before I get back to that, although at the same time, I suppose that there is something to be said for a series...
Peggy - my apologies. I actually did shoot a couple of landscape oriented shots. A total of 4 it looks like out of 4x36 exposure rolls. At any rate, one of those is here for you. This was probably shot about 10-15 minutes after the sun had gone below the horizon. The light here on the Great Lakes in the summer lingers a long time after sunset. Some of the best photos are taken, unfortunately, well after most of the photographers have packed it in for the evening. If you get back and happen to see the attachment, let me know what you think.
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Vincent K. Tylor
{K:7863} 11/18/2002
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Thanks for sharing that Gary. I really like the attached version. You would probably want to crop the botom a bit to match the one posted, but with the sun higher up, I believe it simply fills the frame beautifully! Just my low-life opinion here. Try it, post and see. Thanks again.
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Gary Martin
{K:579} 11/18/2002
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Vince, as yiou might suspect, I shot multiple rolls of film at St Joe's every one of the 5 nights that I shot there that week. I've got some shots from other evenings where the sun was higher that are perhaps a little better than the one that I'm attaching here, but this one was shot maybe a minute or two before the shot I posted. The sun hadn't dropped low enough into the murk that hangs out over the lake in the summer to attenuate the light as it did in the image that I posted. The contrast here is too strong, IMO, and the sun is also haloed, which I didn't much care for. At any rate, since you mentioned that, I thought I'd oblige and put one up from earlier when the sun was above the catwalk.
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Vincent K. Tylor
{K:7863} 11/18/2002
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Another excellent sunset image! The only thing I think would have improved this a bit, is if the sun was actually above the silhouette of the pier. Clarity, colors and composition otherwise are first rate!
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Chris Whaley
{K:3847} 11/18/2002
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wonderful shot Gary.
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Gary Martin
{K:579} 11/18/2002
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Actually, Peggy, the inclusion of those whispy gold/orange cirrus clouds were what I was determined to include in this image when I set it up in the viewfinder. I didn't even bother shooting any landscape oriented shots.... the lighthouses are too tall to use a 300 mm lens to shot that from where I was.
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Greg Summers
{K:1115} 11/18/2002
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I think that's the case with sunsets - they do look unnatural because we live in a day time world but for those who step out and wait - it is a magnificent light show - not unnatural - just unnusual - I love the way this takes the eye from one light house to the next and the counterbalnace of the sky lit up with the dark, almost mysterious shapes of the ligt house - like a promise of what is to come
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Peggy Heise
{K:937} 11/18/2002
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Gary, I love this sunset. Did you take a horizontal view too? Being in a vertical, the top of the photo bothers me, it looks unnatural, almost like it was painted. Still it is beautiful! :)
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