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Upper floor of an abandoned laboratory.I wish I had a wide-angle lens to capture more of the room. I was backed all into the corner though, so until I get a decent camera with a wide-angle lens this'll have to suffice.
Comments of all sorts are appreciated as usual.
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Great HDR result... what's your exif? -2Ev 0 +2Ev ?
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The colours are extremely alive in this one.
Maybe that's my problem, you see. I have a digital wide-angle camera. And then, when you try to isolate some piece of image, there goes the good resolution and colours. Also, I cannot chose my f number or focal length as I wished. I'm totally at the mercy of the mood swings of my camera.
I read wide-angle lenses are better for interior photos, as well as landscaspes. However, it's not good for external architecture photos.
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you should definitley go back and capture this with a wide-angle lens if you ever get one. brilliant looking subject.
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Yep -- it's definitely on my "to do" list. Hopefully the building will still be standing by the time I get one
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yeah this photo is great. The depth of focus and clarity are excellent. I really like the tone as well, it gives an eerie sense of decay, but at the same time new life in the plants that are growing in and around ..
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I like so much the colours!
yeah, the view across the window is like a tale, maybe terror tale
wonderful pic!!
( And excuse me if you canΒ΄t understand my English. itΒ΄s quite strange)
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I really like this shot and I'm not sure why but I do, it's kinda hard to explain but you did very good!
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why not try a panorama?
anywho this rocks, very good textures and the composition flows aswell
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Hmm, well, I guess stitching together an HDR would be *technically* possible... It'd probably be a pain in the rear though. I'll have to give it a try sometime.
Thanks for the suggestion
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Verry nice HDR Shot This is one of a Perfect Place to use the Tecnique. I donot Belive it is cheating. With film you could Dodge and Burn Untill you got it right and that isn't cheating. The contrast is amazing and the detail is stunning.
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Thanks very much! 
I'm pretty sure Murphysk8 was kidding about it being "cheating," but thanks for standing up for the technique - it's definitely useful in situations like this.
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Well Not just for him. For SOme REason some ppl Find it Cheating when you Increase the contrast of something else along the lines. Some Times i wounder if they'd ever heard of a dark room.. If i had the time space and Money I'd switch 100% to film But untill i can Affoard to set up a dark room I'd rather not trust my anything to a Film Lab.
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Yeah, that's kind of an absurd outlook to call things you could do in the darkroom "cheating." There're a lot of clueless people in "art communities" though.
I used to do all my own processing, developing and printing. Definitely more time-consuming, but you do feel like you've *made* something when you're done.
Yeah, and film labs are a bit of a scary proposition. I used one once for some prints (and only once) and they printed everything to middle-grey, so I got a bunch of washed-out looking shots. Biggest waste of money ever.
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I've seen that happen Before.
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Thanks very much - the entire building was pretty textureful
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wow really cool 
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Lovely shot. I honest don't know quite what it is about it, it's just charming in a way...
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Thanks, it was definitely an intriguing place to explore
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beatutiful picture. I love the beauty of the place...
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great hdr action there... the shot would probably not look as good, or rather you'd have parts under/ over exposed without it.
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The colours in this are absolutely fantastic, did you do much post processing to the picture. I would be interested to hear what you did to it.
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It is an HDR shot (a combination of an under-exposed, normally-exposed, and over-exposed image to give detail in both the highlights and the shadows). I apply the technique very subtly though, so it's almost not even apparent. The light from the window would have made this shot extremely difficult to expose correctly with a single exposure. Aside from combining the exposures there wasn't much else done to it, maybe a level adjustment.
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I thought it was either HDR or some clever use of contrast masks.
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There's so much texture to everything that I thought it was a photo-manipulation or possibly a painting for a second.
It's an amazing photo.
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Thanks!
Yep, all those textures were present in the room. I did bump the contrast and level of black to attempt to bring them out a bit more than in the original straight off the cam.
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this reminds me of the description of the Gaunt house in harry potter...
dunno if you read it, but if you did you'd get what i'm saying
elsewise, great photo... i love the exquisite details...
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Haven't read any of them yet (they're on my list), but my gf has, I'll have to ask her what she thinks about that comparison
Thanks!
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I did, but apparently she hasn't gotten to that yet. Which book is it from?
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Book 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Ah, that explains it -- she's just finishing book 5. I'm sure she'll get to it soon though, cause she's plowing through them like mad
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alright, well when she gets there, she'll know it...
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I'm very much in love with this picture, it's so .... I don't know... I want to say rustic and charming, but I'm not sure that would be quite right... well done though! It looks beautiful.
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Thanks so much!
I typically try to find the beauty in decay. I think it provides an intriguing juxtaposition (sorry for the $10 artsy-fartsy word).
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I feel very much the same way... (that only means you're $10 richer than I am!
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