BOTTOM OF THE CITY

These sewage pumps and valve are 100ft below the New York City

Streets. Thanks for looking.

Unique and interesting.

Love your work mate! Wanted to give it 7/6 but couldn't due to PN restrictions! The colourings give this piece a real 3d sci / fi feel! Well done Jed!

I agree with Paul. Wonderful shot.

Thank you for providing such a visual treat. Your wonderful use of colors takes something that would ordinarily be gross and makes it beautiful.

Beautiful sewer pumps. I never thought I'ld see the day.......

Great work! This is exactly the kind of thing I like to shoot too - well done with those textures - Glenn

A masterpiece! Who could imagine?

Looks like you've been using Photomatix for this shot to merge different exposures, am I right? But that creates a very interesting effect, making it look more like a painting than a photo, I feel, which is rather nice.

Yes, I used Photomatrix and CS2. The light source was sodium vapor and tungsten which caused the the color shift. Thanks for viewing this image.

Great work.

I like the color toning.... it suites the image.. nice....

great industrial shot. did you use the tone mapping in Photomatix? I am keen to use it. Works well for this shot.

vallery

Tone mapping was done with Photomatrix as a plug in for CS2. The colors were enhanced by changing the mode to lab colors instead of RGB.

Well, I think it stinks.

 

How did you get access to these amazing places? I can only dream of getting to places like this, and old industrial places and machines are one of my favorite topics. It was so upsetting to see that power plant around 39th Street go down. I always wanted to go in there and get pictures before it was too late.

 

Your HDR work is an inspiration. You;re one of the few photographers that use it well and it becomes just a tool to improve an already great image instead of being the most important part. This is just an amazing shot. I hadn't thought of LAB color as a post HDR technique but will be next time around.

 

Ray