Slowly Falling Apart

Due to resurfacing the usual road I take to work was closed. I found this old brick barn on the detour route and had to come back for a few shots.

 

Isn't it great how serendipity give us such gifts!

 

What a great building Paul and a nice series. Worth exploring further I'd say.

Do you use LR?

 

Cheers guys,

I'm now a LR user since we discovered that Kerri, as a Teachers Assistant only had to pay £66 for it! She just ordered it online and uploaded her ID and a few days later we got the down access and SN!

 

Have a play with these presets. I modified them to create presets that suited urban decay. I think they would work well on the brickwork etc on the barn.

http://www.freedrive.com/file/1afff51be9a0ccc81ed591f862604f0a

 

Cheers Pete, I'll have a look.

 

Love a bit of decay photography - very nice looking building

The window is really strong, but I'm liking the texture of the crumbled brick as well

if you get to revisit - how about something more side-on with the brick, get more idea of relief and texture?

 

Yep, you two have convinced me to go back. I wasn't planning on doing any more mad things like photographing old buildings that everyone thinks are eyesores........honest!

 

There's a group over here in San Diego that do nothing else but find abandoned and decaying buildings to shoot and explore - looks great fun

http://www.abandonedsandiego.com/

 

Or, how about: http://www.abandoned-places.com/

Interesting guy and he's produced a nice book that you can buy directly from him.

 

Nice find Pete - will enjoy having a browse through that later

 

Had another crack today at the barn but this time with the P7000. Used a different PP this time, a bit of CP but with the oranges and yellows desaturated a bit.

The outside.








The windows






And as a bit of experimentation for my project (on another thread) I took some shots of the inside but using the window frame to frame the image. Because it was dark inside and bright outside the frames washed out almost completely. I experimented a bit with the cropping to put the frame in differing positions.

 

That bunny is well weird Paul!
I like some of these mate, I'm not sure if they are slightly over complicated with the pp and odd framing?! Although I can see you getting to grips with the idea more I think!
I'd get my bum in there with that new 35mm lens and pick some individual items out with some shallow Dof, but that's just me

 

I really like that last shot Paul. Weird rabbit, cobwebs etc. Superbly surreal and I like the crack of light coming round the door. Shame you couldn't keep a touch of detail on the broken glass though. I'm not even going to use the square crop words!!

 

Looks like a bunny sacrifice - very spooky!

 

Maybe it's a lure for the modern photographer. Let's hope it doesn't end up like The Wicker Man (or if it does, that someone at least gets some decent shots! ).

 

BOOOBIES!

 

Er, is the stress getting to you Hamish?!!

 

Where?

 

I little actually today yes ...

in the wickerman ... it was made in the 70's all films made in the 70's have boobies in dont they?