cwilliams31 Loc: Salisbury, North Carolina

Photographer Wants to take Photo's in around Charleston, SC
Can anyone suggest place's to shoot ?
I would like at least one marina.

Festina Lente Loc: Florida & Missouri

Rather than tell you what I found there, I suggest you check out the Charleston Camera Club's website:
http://www.charlestoncameraclub.com/

Also, they have a Facebook page where you can ask members for recommendations.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charleston-Camera-Club/111644612192793

I can't imagine a richer source for current photo opportunity information!! Be sure to tell them exacty when you will be there as local events make great opportunities, even at marinas.

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

between ft sumter, the civil war era mansions, the downtown district.lots of places to shoot. remarkable because Sherman chose not to bother with the birthplace of rebellion, much of pre civil war Charleston still exists. other parts of south Carolina were not so lucky. remarkably once Sherman's army got to north Carolina the devastation stopped.

mainshipper Loc: Hernando, Florida

Charleston is a wonderful place for photography but I'm not sure what the attraction of a marina would be as none are historic. There are also many old plantations in the area that are open for visitors as well. I've been going there my whole life and find it to be a wonderful and unique slice of America.

cwilliams31 Loc: Salisbury, North Carolina

The marina may seem a little odd and out of place but I'll be after the "boats and reflections".
Especially late in the evening.

Thanks to you guy's for your info.

mainshipper Loc: Hernando, Florida

You might want to look into areas where you might find shrimp boats since the marinas I'm familiar with in the city are just plain vanilla boat docks and since they are located on rivers the reflectability of moving water may be elusive. If you are coming down the coast on US17 try stopping by McClellanville and looking at their fishing fleet.

cwilliams31 Loc: Salisbury, North Carolina

Now ya talking - Thanks ....

Heather Anne Loc: Moncks Corner Sc

Oh, there are so many places that you can go and not just in Charleston but also if you want the outer towns too, If you shoot down town and don't want crowds the earlier you can go the better, the fountains downtown are beautiful. East Bay street is good, so is Market street for the architectural and people photo's. waterfront park is really a good place to go to, beautiful place to take pictures.
There is the Battery with all the old homes and you can see Fort Sumter from there and that is a neat place to go take pictures. You could go on a carriage ride and find lots of homes and places of interest to take pictures, while getting a nice ride into History.

You can go to the Uss. Yorktown, If you feel like a good walk, you can walk up to center of the Ravenel Bridge and take pictures from there, make sure a tripod and a good lens. The city market,The Charleston visitor center, it use to be an old railroad station. The piers and the shrimp boats are cool at Folly Beach and also down from Folly Beach is Morris Island Light house, a little bit of a walk but well worth it, if low tide, a nice walk, lots of shells and lots of wonder drift wood to take pictures of and with.

There is Fort Moultrie at Sulivans Island, which is beautiful and never crowded. There is also the Angel Oak, which is a good place.

Old Churches all over Charleston and Beautiful inside and out, If you like grave yards, the Circular church is a good one. Boone Hall Plantation with their gardens the house and the old slave quarters and all the huge trees.

Away from Charelston You have Colonial Dorchester State Historic site, also Magnolia plantation is a good place also.

If you want swamps and gators and nature, you can go to Santee Canal Park in Moncks Corner, also another nice place to visit is Cypress Gardens in Moncks corner, beautiful place,use to be a rice plantation, they filmed The Patriot there and the swamp is nice and you can take a canoe ride and gets some good pictures, also in Moncks Corner is Mepkin Abbey, I love to shoot pictures out there, in the gardens and a bit of a hike, you have the slave grave yard and up a hill over a ravine, you have the old family grave yard behind. a metal gate.

Middleton place is a good place also.There is so many places to go, I hope you have a good time in Sc, and if you have any questions please let me know.

Heather Anne Loc: Moncks Corner Sc

I also thought of the Old Navy base, lost of wonderful things and places to take pictures, old homes, neat statues and all kinds of things there, they also have some of the buildings that they use to film the show Army Wives, if that is an interest.

Hope I have given you some places you might like to visit.

cwilliams31 Loc: Salisbury, North Carolina

Thanks much - Will do a print-out of this .

lacsar Loc: Columbia SC and Newland NC

You might want to look at Shim Creek just across the bridge in Mt. Pleasant. Also that has a great opportunity to photograph the bridge. Most of all listen to Heather Anne, I think she got most of it.

Wheezie

For "series shots" of Charleston, front doors, window boxes, iron gates are incredible! do a lot of walking with your camera! these side streets offer so much to a photographer.

I especially love the cemeteries, Magnolia cemetery has a lot of history including One of the 600 men of the "charge of the light brigade" buried there as well as the crew of the HL Hunley submarine from fro the civil war. The sub was brought up in 2000 from Charleston Harbor. once the sub was opened, remains carefully taken out & identified, the men were laid to rest in 2004. You can view the submarine at the navy yard, but no photos are allowed. That is pretty awesome to see.

definitely Take a carriage ride as mentioned by Heather Anne to get an overview of the history and if something sparks your interest to photograph you can return to that location!

everything else she mentioned is spot on, I hope you have at least a month to spend there!! LOL

mainshipper Loc: Hernando, Florida

Here's a link to some nice shots (not mine) of churches in Charleston.

http://churchesofamerica.smugmug.com/Charleston-SC-Churches

I did take these shots in a 250 year old St. James Santee church in McClellanville.