Wooo second post! I neglected to bring a second roll of film for this journey, so I was stretched kinda thin... I do have a backlog of pictures to be edited from another location that I will be posting soon, however. This location was a manufacturer of children's furniture in a past life, and it isn't clear how long the facility has been in this state of disuse.

NO SMOKING



Plywood over the front door.



Not sure what the tank was for... It has rungs going to the top, but a ladder is needed to access them.






Colorful room.



The warehouses were not accessible.



Electrical boxes?



This pitch-dark room had a square, uncovered pit in the concrete floor, about four feet on a side and at least eight feet deep. I unknowingly walked very close to it, and only discovered it later on the way back when I was out of film. Pay attention when exploring!






The office (?) area was pretty thoroughly trashed.



This room was quite large. I set my flash to full power and opened the aperture completely for this shot.



"THIS IS A SAFE DEPARTMENT"









The sun is not quite ready to set as we call it a day.

This looks like a really interesting place. Was that a utility tunnel in pic #9?

It has the appearance of a utility tunnel, but it's not underground. The only "basement" I'm aware of is apparently only accessible via the pit that I mentioned - there's no stairs or hatches in the floor that I could find.

These are really great!

You mentioned film; do you still shoot manual or was this some time ago?

I have an old Canon FTb, with two rolls of TMAX 400 (black & white), and I'm trying to decide what to use them on.

I've been a little leery about UrbEx-ing with it because I have no experience with shooting black and white with flash.

Posted by Denko These are really great! You mentioned film; do you still shoot manual or was this some time ago?

Thanks! And it depends on which camera I happen to be using. Both of my 35mm cameras (Olympus OM-2s and Minolta Hi-Matic 7sii) have some form of automatic metering, but I usually prefer to shoot manual. My Bronica ETRS doesn't have a meter at all, so I've been trying to adjust to that haha. When you're shooting outdoors it's really easy to just guess the exposure using sunny/16.

TMAX is a great B&W film! Do you develop it yourself or send it out? It scans really well in my experience too. As far as flash goes, it's about the same as with color film. I either leave the flash on full power and set the lens aperture according to subject distance, or set the aperture according to the chart (I think f/8 for 400 iso) and leave the flash on auto. It really depends on what your flash unit is capable of... also remember to set the shutter speed to your camera's flash sync speed or slower.

I haven't shot B&W film while urbexing in a while... Maybe next time I'll bring a camera loaded with color, and a camera loaded with Tri-X pushed to 1600 haha.

Too bad they tore down the original part of the factory. (brick buildings)
Did you know there was a brewery on that property once?

Nice set, you still shooting film? When I went digital I could never go back now. lol

Posted by ccsucher Nice set, you still shooting film? When I went digital I could never go back now. lol

Yup, I love it! Digital is also good, it's just a different tool. Film has more dynamic range, but digital has so many other advantages. Mostly I just like my OM-2 and Bronica more than any digital system I've tried yet...

I understand the dynamic range issue which is why I went back to exposure stacking with my T3i but can only be done with a tripod.