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 antyhero
  
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
 |  | Southern Indiana Complex
< on 10/23/2007 3:49 PM >
|  | | | I had an eventful weekend, but not too much to show for it. My hand is starting to heal so I figured, “Why not check out a couple of the buildings we’ve scouted.” Saturday we went in to two of them. There were all kinds of neat things in the first. The second one was pretty bare but there was a six story garbage chute that easily doubles as a tornado slide. I get home, and learn the lesson that every shot will turn out horrible unless you use a tripod in low light.
So, in my discouragement I bust out the ole tripod and tinker with it all night, getting used to the knobs and such. I decide to go back to an old favorite on Sunday since I’ve only seen people around it once(the last time I tried to go) and I can get used to having a tripod with me.
I show up and people are in one of the buildings, but luckily it’s the farthest. I decide to go back in the woods to the train trestle from the last three pictures of my scouting post and double back. I saw this in one of the buses and thought it was pretty funny.
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I then head back to the buildings and go in this one first. I learn, while shooting on the tripod for the first time, that it is hard to get the tripod right where I want it so I have a lot of practicing to do.
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3.This aint no place for kids
4. Where are those TPS reports
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6. One of the keys in 20 says Forklift. Should I try to start it or could it blow up?
7. Wanna build a robot?
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I decide to head over to the other building and get these on the way.
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10. There used to be a building where this pool of water is. You can notice the markings on the building to the left. There are doors on the second floor that would have connected but now drop off.
11. I haven’t been in this one yet. Every time I see the walkway I think, “If I go up there, someone is going to challenge me to a fight. And one of us is falling in the vat of acid.”
12. Everything decays the same way
13, Sealed up like Ft Knox
14. All of these machines have pieces of paper on them saying what it was used for as if you’re in a museum. I don’t know if they are planning on making this an educational center or what, but the buildings are starting to see people from time to time. Behind this machine was a bag full of new work gloves and screwdrivers. I wonder if they’re going to seal it up a bit more.
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16. Check out that floppy diskette
17. The first thing I think when I see this building is, “This place could really use some new ceiling fans.
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19. Restroom…no boys allowed
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21. What are these keys used for? Oh there's the one for the Hair Dryer Locker.
22. Let’s go upstairs
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24. Instructions
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26.
My friends wandered around while I got frustrated with the tripod, and with getting the settings right on my camera for low light. Getting the white balance was annoying me so I usually ended saying, "To hell with it." I know I have some work to do to get good shots, but any helpful tips are welcome.
Eventually we decide to make our exit. We go back down the stairs, which is at the mid point in the building, when we hear a truck pull up and then see the shadows of feet under the door. I take off running towards the front half of the building to try and unlock the front door, but it requires a key. One of my friends says, "He had to see me, I looked back and he was there, clear as day."
So we're trapped at the front side of the building, but unless the guy was running towards us, I had about a minute to look through the keys for the one that unlocks the front door. I'm so frantic I don't realize that it's the first one on the list posted above. Then I hear a pipe rolling and the guy picking it up. Is he going to club us? We head for the windows but they are all in tact on the front side of the building so my friend starts trying to get one open. While he's doing that, I decide to look down the length of the building and see the guy down there minding his own business.
We settle down and wait it out for a while, but are still messing with the windows from time to time. Then, we hear a cough and there's the guy outside the window. We duck, wait some more and finally the guy leaves. I guess the building is becoming a bit more active.
Lessons learned:
1. I have to practice using a tripod.
2. I have to practice shooting in low light.
3. Never get too comfortable in an abandonment.
4. Make sure you try to have two escape routes.
[last edit 10/23/2007 3:50 PM by antyhero - edited 1 times]
I changed my mind so much I can't even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.
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person
  
Location: cincinnati
Gender: Male
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 1 on 10/29/2007 3:33 AM >
| | | | Ja, definitely some white balance issues there... blue outdoors and orange indoors.
I love the elevator in #22, I've always thought the old freight elevators with wooden doors were amazingly sexy.
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jhota
Location: Burlington, KY
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 2 on 10/31/2007 1:36 AM >
| | | | looks like it was a fun spot!
god, being in southern indiana without exploring friends sucks.
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antyhero
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 3 on 10/31/2007 12:40 PM >
| | | | It's a very fun spot, and hopefully there is even more fun in the other 2 buildings there. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that finds old elevators to be sexy.
Are you from southern Indiana jhota? There does seem to be a lack of people in this part of the country exploring. Everyone I know that explores does so because I started dragging them along at some point.
Also, a general question for anyone: Can you think of any real dangers with trying to start that forklift? I don't know if rusty propane tanks pose any danger. I jokingly said, "We'll blow up if we start that thing," which made me second guess myself.
I changed my mind so much I can't even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.
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Atomic-Lard
Location: Twin Cities
Gender: Male
Not your typical junkie.
| | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 4 on 10/31/2007 5:30 PM >
| | | | I love it when stuff like that happens. It adds a little spice to the trip.
[last edit 10/31/2007 5:31 PM by Atomic-Lard - edited 1 times]
"your songs give the saints diarrhea." -1eye
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jhota
Location: Burlington, KY
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 5 on 11/1/2007 1:30 AM >
| | | | I'm in Madison, IN. I've only been here a couple of months and haven't gone exploring yet...
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lesscrafted
Location: WTF, Alaska
Gender: Female
Why would today be any different?
| |  | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 6 on 11/1/2007 3:04 AM >
| | | | You know what though? Excellent story to have in your repertoire! I am never a fan of dodging unexpected people but sounds like ultimately your sympathetic nervous system treated you well! 
For whatever faults you were having w/ your camera/tripod etc, this is still quite a decent set~~ the rest is photo-shoppable... 17 makes your trip worth while for me. Nicely done.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
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seicer
 
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 7 on 11/1/2007 4:04 AM >
| | | | Posted by jhota
I'm in Madison, IN. I've only been here a couple of months and haven't gone exploring yet...
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There are tons of places within an hours drive... 
From Lexington, but up that way a lot
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antyhero
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 8 on 11/1/2007 1:15 PM >
| | | | Madison is quite a change compared to Chicago. I went there years ago and remember it being pretty bland. It was a brief visit and I was young and impatient so I could be wrong.
Thanks for the kind words lesscrafted. What part of KY are you in?
I changed my mind so much I can't even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.
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jhota
Location: Burlington, KY
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 9 on 11/1/2007 10:42 PM >
| | | | yeah, i know there's a lot within driving distance. i'm less likely to drive far to explore alone. but it's a possibility.
madison is pretty bland. it's a cute town, and very picture-esque. compared to chicago it is kind of culture shock, but that's what i was looking for. now, however, i have come to the conclusion that i am more big city than i am small town. so, who knows how long ill stay here.
anyway, thanks for sharing the photos. they were quite good. playing around with cameras can result in some interesting photos!
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Ransom13
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Gender: Male
Something smells like ham. Seriously, its not funny anymore. Shower you ham-stink jerk.
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 10 on 11/5/2007 6:35 AM >
| | | | Looks like you found an old tannery. It sounds like they might be starting to either revitalize or strip out the place. Im sure some of the equipment is worth good money somewhere and to someone.
For fidgeting with your camera and tripod so much you have some really solid shots. 13,17,21,22,24,26 are all solid compositions. If your camera is not white balancing as you need it to, find someone with photoshop and tweak the colors. If you dont have photoshop, UofL might have some of their computers that are open to the general student population sporting photoshop now.
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antyhero
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 11 on 11/5/2007 2:32 PM >
| | | | You guessed it. Been in many? I saw in one of your posts that you're a teacher and I was wondering what you taught.
My camera does a good job white balancing as long as I let it do it, which I'm finally starting to do. See, I went from using a Pentax to a Rebel. I was used to being able to make any changes quickly and easily to digging through menus with a scroll wheel. It felt like they were trying to push me into using the automatic settings which I didn't like. So I went to the other extreme and was trying to do things like set the white balance each shot. I've turned that over to the camera for now, but hopefully with enough practice I'll be able to without getting an overly blue or orange shot. Practice practice practice.
I finally broke down and used Photoshop last week on a couple shots. I intended to never use the program, because I saw how people were using it to "fix" their pictures and was not fond of the results. I wanted to force myself to just get it right the first time. But then I started thinking about how I would burn/dodge or turn up the magenta or cyan in the darkroom. I guess as long as I do the minimal things I would do in a darkroom I'm ok with it.
So, I'm quite the noob with the program. I'm hoping to find a feature that let's me rotate/crop the way I would when I used an enlarger so that I can keep the size proportions the same for printing. Hopefully, I'll find something like that instead of just cutting the sides off and hoping its close. Does anyone out there know of a feature like that?
I changed my mind so much I can't even trust it. My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.
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person
Location: cincinnati
Gender: Male
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 12 on 11/5/2007 10:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by antyhero
My camera does a good job white balancing as long as I let it do it, which I'm finally starting to do. See, I went from using a Pentax to a Rebel. I was used to being able to make any changes quickly and easily to digging through menus with a scroll wheel. It felt like they were trying to push me into using the automatic settings which I didn't like. So I went to the other extreme and was trying to do things like set the white balance each shot. I've turned that over to the camera for now, but hopefully with enough practice I'll be able to without getting an overly blue or orange shot. Practice practice practice.
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Hm, I've had the opposite experience with my Rebel. Half the time the auto white balancing is lousy, but one of the presets usually ends up working alright.
And AHHHH, I have the same problem with the menus. Every time I have to fiddle with manual white balance I end up wanting to shoot whoever engineered the menus in the face. Is there any other way to do it other than taking a picture of some reference white, going thru menus and selecting that picture, and then turning manual white balance on?
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Ransom13
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Gender: Male
Something smells like ham. Seriously, its not funny anymore. Shower you ham-stink jerk.
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 13 on 11/9/2007 10:03 AM >
| | | | Currently I am teaching Foundation 3D design, but in the past I have taught Introduction to Screenprint, Intro to Computer Graphics, Foundation 2D design, Color Theory, and Sculpture I. Basically I teach whatever I can. Currently I am adjunct, which is college speak for "beotch". But I digress.
Honestly, your best bet with any camera is to control its settings. Have direct control over your shutter speed and F stop settings. Also, if you can operate at the lowest ISO your camera allows, and shoot in a RAW format. That is how my camera is operating best. I currently sport a Nikon Coolpix 8700, but I am about to upgrade to a Nikon D40x. Mmmmmm SLR goodness.
You can use Photoshop and not have your pictures look Photoshopped. If you just restrict the use to white balance, some brightness/contrast, image rotation/flipping, and cropping, you're not doing too much image alteration. You are honestly not doing anything an enlarger, easel, and negative holder dont let you do in a darkroom.
Oh, and check out Seicer, he seems to know his way around this locality pretty damn well. He even has a website running around somewheres.
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RochesterUE
Gender: Male
I'm a piggie!
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 14 on 11/9/2007 1:11 PM >
| | | | Very nice shots...
And about the forklift... START THAT UP, BOY!
http://cat.org.au/~predator/approach.txt
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop... |
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carpemuffin
Location: Evansville IN
| | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 15 on 3/25/2008 3:01 AM >
| | | | If you ever want to go back.......
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CDSbigsby
Location: Lancaster, Ohio
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 16 on 3/25/2008 6:47 AM >
| | | | Nice shots, awesome looking location!
And about the forklift, I've never driven a propane fueled one, but I can't see any reason why there would be any problems. I don't know if you'd have to like, open the valve on the tank or anything though. Might as well try it out, forklifts are quite fun to drive.
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Ram23
Location: Cincinnati, OH and/or Queens, NY
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 17 on 3/25/2008 12:25 PM >
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Off topic, but since the threads up, Ransom do you teach those classes at DAAP?
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tron_2.0
Location: Ohio
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Southern Indiana Complex
<Reply # 18 on 3/25/2008 4:18 PM >
| | | | Posted by seicer
There are tons of places within an hours drive...
From Lexington, but up that way a lot
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lol no shit ;)
theres one pretty big place near louisville......................
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