General Urbex Photos Thread!

[krela]

I was enjoying this thread till an old grumpy ******* went and spoilt it by whining like a big crybaby. I think Admin should create a TinyTears Award for displays of utter childishness.

I've been back to june in this thread and still have no clue what you're talking about.

 

[Mimble]

Some unusual knobs I found on my honeymoon

 

[foz101]

A couple from today.

 

[Allstar#500]

Tried editing a photo for the first time last night, heres the before and after. It hasnt come out the way i wanted but its certainly changed it somewhat. I was trying to make the chair the really standout as the subject over the background, hence the blurring





Got alot to learn

 

[foz101]

Tried editing a photo for the first time last night, heres the before and after. It hasnt come out the way i wanted but its certainly changed it somewhat. I was trying to make the chair the really standout as the subject over the background, hence the blurring

My two pence would be to crop it so the chair is in the centre and perhaps bring the contrast down a tadge to calm down the light coming in from the windows at the back. And that's all.
The blurring makes it look too messy to me. Like you were trying to create DoF. Try playing with the manual mode on your camera, with the focussing settings and aperture, even in the living room, and make a note of the settings. You'll find the results you want.

Now I'm off back to camera hell...

 

[lost]

I went down to Fife the other day and visited the Cults limestone mine with RichardB, cheers for the tour. He's a lot better at navigating than me... I'd probably still be down there if I went on my own.

Any tips on how to avoid torch trails, apart from stumbling about in the dark?

I think that's a hunk of wood on the bottom right, the papery, crumbling remains of a roof support.

Lots of collapses and rock falls.

 

[foz101]

Yeah, some of the ceilings have big square chunks of rock missing which you can see has just slipped out and crashed onto the floor. It certainly makes you think about making a noise or clattering about.

I hope to see more of this place soon. You?

 

[Pincheck]

I went down to Fife the other day and visited the Cults limestone mine with RichardB, cheers for the tour. He's a lot better at navigating than me... I'd probably still be down there if I went on my own.

Any tips on how to avoid torch trails, apart from stumbling about in the dark?

I think that's a hunk of wood on the bottom right, the papery, crumbling remains of a roof support.

Lots of collapses and rock falls.

did you get to see the white supports fully covered in a kind of luminous moss thats pure white very surreal

 

[RichardB]

I think the answer to the torch trails problem is to use the dimmest torch you can get away with and avoid pointing it towards the camera.

The middle picture doesn't seem to suffer from trails, is that the one that I released the shutter for?

 

[lost]

Indeed. That was when I just stumbled about with my flashgun.
A dim incandescent torch would probably be almost invisible to the camera.

I am pretty keen to go back, even though the collapses are pretty scary...

 

[thompski]

Whittingham Hospital, I missed a fair bit of it due to a lack of light, plus its been done to death, so I doubt anyone would appreciate yet another report of the place. First abandoned place I've been in ages!

 

[cogito]

Since we have a general urbex photos thread, anyone fancy a general urbex video thread?

 

[foz101]

Since we have a general urbex photos thread, anyone fancy a general urbex video thread?

I've got a couple to contribute. If the thread is started.

 

[graybags]

Random

Not strictly Urbex, but what the heck, taken today whilst out for an explore :

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[Lhiannan Shee]

 

[Sabtr]

Looks very bleak BG.

 

[chase779]

Stoke Dameral High School, Plymouth

 

[mexico75]

A Leeds rooftop,

 

[sqwasher]

^^^^^ Nice classy shot Mexico!

 

[Mid diesel]

not a lot left....