South Louisiana Life

[Ed Richards]

Added some new images of south LA to the beginning of my new work gallery:

http://www.epr-art.com/galleries/a1-new/

If you have some south LA shots, pile on.:-)

[fenderbja]

Nice work... they look great

[Thom Bennett]

Nice work Ed! You certainly get around. I know you just entered the Four by Five exhibit but take a look at this one as well:

http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/C...try.php?CFE=10

[tgtaylor]

Nice work Ed! You certainly get around. I know you just entered the Four by Five exhibit but take a look at this one as well:

http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/C...try.php?CFE=10

I don't know about Ed, but I clicked on it and man do you guys bring back some memories. Is Mary's Tavern still there? What about the Half Moon? Not that I frequented those places - the former during my mid teens as a dare with my best friend and the latter when I was maybe 5 or 6 with my father who was in commercial real estate. My "hood" was a few blocks down towards Canal street: Thalia & Coliseum (1118 and 1301 - right across from the Coliseum Theatre).

Ed: IMHO, the photos generally lack impact and intimacy. A Voodo Shop? I thought it was a take-out window until I saw the sign on the far right. Try experimenting with different films - I bet IR would work for some - and getting CLOSER for others. I bet the occasional soft focus would work as would a lith print, here and there.

Thomas

[Henry Ambrose]

Ed, you're doing some fine work!

[Ed Richards]

Thomas,

You have to remember that these are LF - they depend on fine detail and tonality, which is, of course, useless on the WWW. (If I only shot for the WWW, I would use a Canon s90 set to vivid.) If you want in your face intimate, shoot 35mm. My boucherie shots were mostly with a 24mm, which is blood on the shoes close.

[Kirk Gittings]

Ed, you're doing some fine work!

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[Don Dudenbostel]

Very nice work!

Where are the plantation ruins located?

I've been shooting ruins of churches in the costal areas of South Carolina.

[Ed Richards]

Windsor plantation is outside Port Gibson, MS. It is the subject of a famous photo by Clarence John Laughlin. It burned more than 100 years ago, and is remarkably unchanged from when he photographed it in the 1940s.

[tgtaylor]

Is the Tchoupitoulas Plantation across the river on (I believe) River Rd. still around? It had a colorful history and was a great place to take dates to.