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Enjoying the texture and palette!

From a now demolished abandon jail in New Jersey, quite curious of

your opinion

Nice to see somone else shooting anglyph! I'll have to check this out when I get home and get a hold of my 3d glasses!

Here's mine:

http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=970256

Wow, my first impression was that the interior of the arch was a pool of red stained water reflecting the surroundings!

I enjoy the over exposure, there's a comforting eeriness in that white abyss

This, as with most of my images was shot in Detroit. This particular building, was a 15 story luxury hotel that has seen the plight of scrappers and nature alike. The image is not staged, however the piano is the subject of a few photographers, hence the title of the photograph!

 

Thank you everyone for your kind comments!

Nice texture and tones

Fine art?.. I never really know where to put these...

Incredible eye, something that could only work in Black and White.

Stunning, that you could even gain access to these facilities with a camera in hand is a feat in itself! May I ask what kind of post processing occurred?

I almost always frown upon (what I would consider) over-dramatic HDR merges, but I like this one a lot! My only qualm would be the edges in the clouds (most noticeably the orange streak between the two reactor towers). It looks like you had some bleed from the brighter exposure that cause a weird overlapping when you merged it with the darker image that didn't have the spillover, you might try working with a layer mask, and a soft brush to ease out these edges? Skies and spill over is always the hardest part for me when working with HDR merges. It usually takes me ~5 minutes to get the initial merge and countless hours to do all the subtle tweaks...

 

Otherwise, great image! I love the palette and the balance. I am also very impressed that the steam from the towers came out in such detail!

I would have to disagree with the comment about the building in full shadow, love the way this came out. The detail in that building is too intricate to ignore...

Curious to hear your thoughts, especially concerning the exposure. Thanks!

Great captures

Yan Zhang, thank you for your eloquent honesty, a reminder of why I chose this community over the other free alternatives. I have been very torn between this and the previous image (click here) due to the sharper foreground of the prior versus the middle ground of this one. I honestly had not given much thought to the relation between the geese and the plant, although both are symbolic of the changing seasons. Thanks for your time!

I like this, way to work with the clouds...

I like the subject, palette and framing, but I feel that it is over-sharpened concerning the detail in the foreground and the waves close to shore...

Thanks!

At an abandon steel factory in PA. C&C welcome, thanks.

Old inmate records rot, and paint peels at an abandon county jail in New Jersey. Comments and critique welcome, thanks.

I am generally not a fan of over exposure in my images, but I like this one a lot. The palette is natural, a little saturation added in photoshop. Comments and critique welcome, thanks.

Forgive the vulgar title, a bit of an inside joke among the locals. Comments and critique welcome.

Overlooking 3.5 million sq. feet of abandon factory. This is about 3/4 of the totality. Notice the 2x4s covering the hole in the bottom right of the image, a precaution left by a previous explorer. Comments and critique welcome, thanks.

Detroit's skyline through the window of an abandon 3.5 million sq. foot factory in mid oOctober.

 

Comments and critique welcome. I am always skeptical of my exposure merges. After spending so much time working on an image, the line between improvement and regression can become ambiguous. I fight very hard to recreate the image as I saw it, and not create an over dramatic image.

 

Thanks for the look!

A dense fog engulfs Detroit. Just out of sight is the Ambassador bridge adjoining Canada and the United States.

 

Comments and Critique welcome, thanks!