Category Archives: Urbex A common element of urbex photography, especially when using the HDR technique, is a shot that shows the interior decay of the abandoned structure contrasted against what is often verdant growth outside the window. Using an HDR program like Photomatix to blend multiple exposures can do this, but with a shot as simple as this...   Walton Street is a short, two-block stretch in downtown Syracuse with a lot of restored buildings and pretty shops, but that is not what I chose to shoot that morning. This is a loading dock, I guess. There is a great ghost sign above, but I cut it off because “Hurbson Office Equipment” did not...  Sometimes what I do in the field is a mystery to me. I photographed this scene twice in immediate succession. For the second image I widened my zoom by 2 mm, and widened my aperture by maybe 2 stops (since I was in Aperture priority mode this automatically adjusted my shutter). But apparently I never...  Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing, The silent withering of autumn flowers Dropping their petals and remaining motionless; The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. The latest entry from an urbex adventure in Staten Island. Tweet  This is my second shot from last weekend’s urbex shoot in Staten Island. That’s Jose Vazquez kneeling just by the open door. I have to give him credit for this. He was set up for his shot when I decided to set up behind him. I was going to wait for him to finish, but...  Last week I was invited by a group of New York area photographers active on Google Plus to take part in an excursion to an abandoned community on Staten Island. The trip was planned and led by Jose Vazquez, and also included Angel Figueroa, Howard Gaines, Mike Marin, and kora foto morgana. It was a...  Straight ahead is the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Armory Square Syracuse. To the right is the side of the building that houses the Landmark Theater I featured in some earlier posts. This is a fairly simple composition; I was essentially interested in the contrast between the broken base to the street lamp...  It is not unusual to see a box truck with graffiti on it, but this is a somewhat extreme example. It’s like a small piece of traveling Urbex. In this instance, it was parked among office towers at the edge of the Rockefeller Center complex. It is also another example of why I love carrying...  Just a parking lot, and some rear facing windows on an old building in downtown Syracuse. Tweet  A subway train yard in Ridgewood Queens, taken from an M Train last November. If you can’t get pasta fence, or make it disappear through technique, turn it in to a texture. Tweet  I’m not inclined to use textures very much, and when I do use them it appears, from my own perspective, to happen almost randomly. Obviously I chose to add one here but I could not explain why I did so, or why the thought even occurred to me. Tweet  |
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