Photographing at Harbour Town near Hilton Head

Way back in mid-January my friend Scott and I headed up to Hilton Head South Carolina to take some photographs at Harbour Town, a neat little community not too far from Savannah. There was an interesting lighthouse in Harbour Town which we both photographed pretty heavily. This is the only photograph of the sunset I will be posting though. I just couldn’t get many compostions I like. I don’t know if I was in a funk or what, but…blah. I enjoy this photograph, the clouds seem to mimic the piece of land, falling away from it.

Photographing at night in Hilton Head

The other night I got a text message from my friend Scott Kublin about photographing at sunset. Of course I wanted to, we just were not sure where to go. Scott came up with the idea of photographing up in Hilton Head, and it turned out to be a great idea. Not only have I never been to this location, Harbour Town, but it was a pretty neat place.

The lighthouse at Harbour Town is an interesting subject. Photographing it was a no-brainer, but all of the boats in the foreground made it a challenge. There are two things we had to consider. One, the sailboats’ masts were in the way when shot from most angles. Two, the boats were constantly swaying back and forth. When you are photographing at night your shutter will stay open, allowing the sailboats to appear like they are moving, in other words they were ghosting. So, it was a little tough to get everything in frame, find the right angle and eliminate the moving of the sailboats. Between getting most of it right in camera and fixing the ghosting in post seemed to take care of those problems. The picture turned out pretty cool, but I may be a little biased.