ngdawg

The friend I ride with is brave...or maybe brazen...today's ride found us in a small village where we found a very old house, half torn apart, as if renovations were to start. Thinking I'd be shooting from windows, I get called to the back, where my friend and possible partner in crime shows me a way in-door was unlocked. These are what was inside:




Out back was a barn. A sign announced 'barn wood for sale'. I'd have preferred taking this:

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analog

Nice pics... looks like a few of those are ripe for some photoshopping fun to make them look real creepy- well, creepier than they look now. lol

xepherys

wow, very nice. Thank you for sharing...

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Brewmaniac

Beautiful pictures ngdawg, you have a very artistic eye!

Thanks for sharing!

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ngdawg

Something about dark, delapidated places that just seem to make their own creepiness...I've tried playing in PS, but nothing makes them more creepy-it's like it takes away from the mood to fiddle with them. Most I'll do is cut back on the colors; the bike photo looks good printed out with the blue sharpened and the rest about half the intensity

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kurty[B]

These are magnificent! I want one of those strollers, just classic!

If I were there I would have left a note about the bike offering to take it off their hands. That is simply a great cruiser!

Great find ngdawg.

newtx

You do have a good eye. i liked it all, especially the strollers and the patina on the old bike. That first pic was pretty high on the creepy scale.

hagatha

Why do they seem eerie I wonder. They are really mundane objects and places, but the colour and positioning lend a strange atmosphere....would love to see more ngdawg.

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ngdawg

I have loads more...
The first one looks eerie because, before my friend showed me the door was open, I shot it thru the window. I place my lens right up against the glass and use the lowest aperature setting I can-I think this was at 3.5; the glass, being rather dirty, gives that appearance, rather than the dirt showing up on its own. Another example is below, shot thru the window pane of a mill:

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ngdawg

OK, this is getting addicting!

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Jean VIGNE

Would look still better on paper than on a screen.

ngdawg

They do. The last one, especially.
Thanks, all. As I continue my law-breaking ways, I'll add more.

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motdakasha

I found the first and third had the most interesting subjects. I think the composition was a little overclipped by just a smidge. In the first one, the bottom of the dresser gets cut off and I feel my eyes run down off the image. In the third, I would have preferred at least on of the baby carriages to be completely within the frame because my eyes wander off the right edge first, then to the left edge without really drawing my eye to the middle or main subject. Good exposure on those two.

The other ones weren't as interesting to me, subject-wise, and many are also quite flat and lacking in saturation.

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mixedmedia

I really like these, ng. I like the dusty and neglected colors.

Very nice.

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ngdawg

Well, they lack saturation because of how they were shot-through dirty windows. The windows act as filters, giving a dusty appearance to an already dusty subject. (I can't see what I shoot in those cases, I just place the camera right up on the windowpane and take a few shots.)
The cabinet on the left isn't cut off, the frame ends at its end(there's no legs on it). I agree about the carriages, but being that we were not where we were invited to be, most of my shots from inside were one-shot deals-I have this thing about being arrested
Below is another example of 'shooting blind'-placing the camera against a window and clicking and hoping:

The only thing I did when I got home was use Curves to lighten just a bit. In the background was a built-in cupboard that couldn't be seen in the original, but had I overdone the brightness, the entire photo would have looked horrid, so this is a compromise. I have to guess on the aperature, usually going as low as I can(and the camera further guesses on the shutter speed as a result) and I can't use a flash as it'd only reflect back. And, even tho it's a DSLR, what shows up on the LCD is not necessarily indicative of what I end up with. Had I seen those first shots only on the LCD and made a decision, they'd have been deleted as being way too dark.

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*Nikki*

I love those old strollers!!

Nice eye you got there

Jetée

Great shots and nice sleuthing!

You're Awesome!

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bernadette

Cool place, ngdawg! Some interesting shots.
I could spend an afternoon there shooting, but then I'd wanna go home & take a shower real fast. haw!

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tenniels

I love love love the one of the peeling window pane.

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squeeeb

great pictures. i love the old bicycle.

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miko

I love pics like this, especially the rocking chairs in the first one.