Pearse and Cutler Glass, Birmingham, Re-Visit Mar 08. Pic Heavy

Virusman26 · Mar 16, 2008

Well, first off, sorry for creating a separate thread. The reason is the quantity of photo's, and the fact that I went with someone different than the first visit. We went back to shoot what I missed first time, and Boy, it didn't disappoint!

We were there for around 4 hours, just seeing EVERY THING the site has to offer. This time I was kitted up with me new Metz flashgun.

Hope you like the pics, and get a sense of just how bloody big the place is, for a city centre factory!

The boiler room

Gory safety pic!!

A visitor in the reception area!!!!

So many pics(500 in all) and so little to upload here.

diluted will be along soon to post his(can't wait to see them. Quality as usual?) so another reason to start a new thread.

Enjoy the photos guys, and maybe we can all go and visit it sometime, when it's not so full of water and leaks!

ashless · Mar 16, 2008

Virusman26 said:
A visitor in the reception area!!!!

Woah....respect! I know who i'm gonna be trying to copy next weekend! :mrgreen:

diluted · Mar 16, 2008

Many thanks to Virusman, he found a great site, and borrowed me a tripod for the day. I much prefer natural light over flash any day of the week, but my tripod is big and cumbersome (I bought it to use with an RB67).
I also played with my new laser pen.

There's a select few here, you can see more on my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomagraphs/sets/72157604136239197/

Indefatigable · Mar 17, 2008

Fantastic photo's guys and a great looking site too. I like the light drawing ones too. Nice one.

Foxylady · Mar 17, 2008

Excellent photos both of you. Love these big hangar-type shop floors. Even when empty they have a great feel to them. Good stuff!

King Al · Mar 17, 2008

Nice one guys, some excellent light painting

Virusman26 · Mar 17, 2008

Cheers all, and good stuff from diluted again! Top visit, nice and easy. Some bloody scary noises tho from the old heavy fire doors that lead out to the narrow back alleys.

diluted · Mar 17, 2008

Virusman26 said:
Some bloody scary noises tho from the old heavy fire doors that lead out to the narrow back alleys.

haha, how scared was I....
sounded like someone coming in and walking towards me.

cheers for the loan of the tripod, couldn't have got many of those shots without it.

smileysal · Mar 17, 2008

What a great place. Love those glass panels and love the light painting, brilliant.

Cheers guys,

Sal

havoc · Mar 17, 2008

Haha nice one love the light painting :mrgreen:

Virusman26 · Mar 18, 2008

Went back today to get some exterior shots, thanks to better weather than the last visit.

Best of the rest are here as usual..........
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8776781@N02/sets/72157604070648306/

krela · Mar 18, 2008

awesome heh

looks like you had a great day.

Virusman26 · Mar 23, 2008

Just put a quick video together too.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0dusjl1qI[/ame]

Foxylady · Mar 23, 2008

That's a really good video VM...and a nice bit of Leftfield too! Enjoyed that! :mrgreen:

Virusman26 · Mar 23, 2008

Glad you like it, just thought the video clips would add a little more to the report. I'll try and do the same for any other sites I do from now on, given the time!

diluted · Mar 27, 2008

Virusman26 said:
Glad you like it, just thought the video clips would add a little more to the report. I'll try and do the same for any other sites I do from now on, given the time!

some motion video of corngreaves would kick ass. might be too dark though i guess.

Virusman26 · Mar 27, 2008

diluted said:
some motion video of corngreaves would kick ass. might be too dark though i guess.

Yeah I reckon only the main stairs would be light enough to film. Most of the rest is just too dark.

ThenewMendoza · Mar 28, 2008

Looks a good 'un, nice one. Love the light painting, too, my efforts always look abysmal!!.

TnM

diluted · Mar 30, 2008

ThenewMendoza said:
Looks a good 'un, nice one. Love the light painting, too, my efforts always look abysmal!!.

TnM

I've never really got the hang of light painting. I just wanted to write with my new laser pen, and the fact that it lit the room was a bonus. I much prefer to leave my camera on a tripod and use long exposure with natural light. If its insanely dark, I tend to use flash.
If I do "paint" i again use a flashgun off camera, rather than a torch.

a lot of the time its just practice, trial and error. learn from mistakes. most of all have fun.

Virusman26 · Oct 5, 2009

And here it is now..........

DSM moved in a few weeks ago to level the place. Work starts soon on the Kettle works over the road that I never managed to get into. They're using the land as a base.

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