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 sirpsychosexy
 
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
 |  |  | German bunker in the Netherlands
< on 4/8/2006 11:59 AM >
|  | | | Here are the pictures of my first try at light painting in a German ww2 garage-bunker:
The entrance (for some reason my HDR software didn't align the images good)
If there was no sand and bricks(which are bricks of a trashed bunker) this room would be about 5 metres high.
Here is the big bricked-shut original entrance(garage door) visible.
This arch was a standard-sized doorway to another garage, but because of the sand it's only about 50 centimetres high now.
Inside the other garage
The garage, full of bricks(stupid photobucked resized the pic..)
Another doorway
Notes
Finally a room with less bricks and sand in it.
Some electric wires
Had some fun with light painting
Another pic that photobucked resized for no reason. This was probably a tube from a gas filter system.
Walking back to the entrance
A picture of another garage bunker I went in on the way home (and almost couldn't come out). The other garage bunker would have been as high as this one, only this bunker didn't have a wall between the two garage doors.
[last edit 4/8/2006 5:09 PM by sirpsychosexy - edited 1 times]
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flapjack
Location: Manhattan, New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 1 on 4/8/2006 1:01 PM >
|  | | | Well done. The first one looks kind of dreamy...
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Wenn
 
Location: Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 2 on 4/8/2006 1:10 PM >
|  | | | Very cool
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defacto
 
Gender: Male
you're getting verrry sleeepy
| | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 3 on 4/8/2006 3:28 PM >
| | | | What's interesting is the difference between the brick types. It looks like the red one's are much older than the off white ones. Was the bunker added to something older? Neat stuff!
[last edit 4/8/2006 3:29 PM by defacto - edited 1 times]
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sirpsychosexy
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 4 on 4/8/2006 3:47 PM >
| | | | The red bricks are used to shut the big holes which once were the garage doors. After the war all bunkers were bricked-shut and buried to hide them, because it would raise bad memories from the war. Thats why almost all bunkers are underground, the most ones were above ground before they were buried. But of course people started to dig them open (my brother and his crew are one of the biggest bunker-diggers in the netherlands, see www.haagsebunkerploeg.nl) so some bunkers are open now(but still they are illegal to enter). They probably just used any brick they could find to block the big holes, so thats why it looks so old.
[last edit 4/8/2006 5:04 PM by sirpsychosexy - edited 2 times]
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 5 on 4/8/2006 5:16 PM >
| | | | Very cool. Many times I wish I live in Europe so I would be able to do what you are doing! What's the penalty for going in one? I'm surprised they still bother. Thank you for sharing the cool pics!
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sirpsychosexy
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 6 on 4/8/2006 5:29 PM >
| | | | The risk of getting caught isn't very big in most places, but if you get caught you'll get a penalty of about 50 dollars. But I've never been caught though, so I don't know for sure. I always wish I'll get to live in America later, as there is nothing to explore where I live except for these bunkers But yeah the bunkers are pretty cool.. but I would like to do something else for a change than exploring bunkers.
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Mowgli-dog
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 7 on 4/8/2006 7:00 PM >
| | | | Where does all the sand come from? Is it from when the buried the bunkers?
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell
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sirpsychosexy
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 8 on 4/8/2006 7:52 PM >
| | | | The sand came in through the hole in the wall(see the first picture). The bunker is in the dunes near the beach so sand blows in through the hole. Also sand slides in when someone enters the bunker. I think that sand also came in there when they bulldozed the bricks from another wrecked bunker in there. Probably they just dug a peace of sand out of the ground with the bricks in it and threw it in the bunker. The bunker is open since a long time, so there comes pretty much sand in after a while. You can see that the ninth image I posted is a room without sand. Thats because that room is further inside the bunker, while the most sand is near the entrance.
Thanks for the comments everybody, I forgot to say that all critique is appreciated(I know the pics are not too good, so I want to try to improve it).
[last edit 4/8/2006 8:23 PM by sirpsychosexy - edited 1 times]
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 9 on 4/8/2006 9:09 PM >
| | | | I thought the first image was very good to spite what problems you had with aligning the images. I find it's very hard to capture the "essence" of fortified structures; the massiveness, the coldness, and the confined emptiness. How many images did you use, and which software?
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sirpsychosexy
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 10 on 4/8/2006 9:41 PM >
| | | | I used Photomatix for making the HDR. I used 6 images at iso100 exposed 10sec. - 6sec. - 4sec. - 1,6sec. - 1/5sec. - 1/100sec. Aligning failed because I accidentally kicked my tripod a little bit after the third pic and the pic's which are metered for the entrance are too dark for Photomatix to align good.
But thanks for the comment blackhawk. I agree with you that it's hard to get nice pic's inside structures from the war because they're often just empty shells. It's also hard because a lot of bunkers here are very small inside. I think the only way to experience how it is inside bunkers is to see it in person. I really want a more wide-angle lens than the one I have now(canon 18-55mm) because I think with a wider angle you can get much more of an impression at how a room looks. (this is quite off-topic because this bunker was pretty big inside, but most bunkers are a complex of small halls and rooms)
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: German bunker in the Netherlands
<Reply # 11 on 4/8/2006 10:59 PM >
| | | | I been playing with HDRs in CS2. They are tricky, have been trying to get more 5 or 6 or more images to self align but get memory error messages. I have lots of RAM, scratch disks but the software is new and still has some bugs. Been playing with PS settings, and background programs that are running with some success; it's cool.
The tripod issue is a pain. I'm getting a cable release, and have become very good at imitating a statue glued to a tripod when shooting. Judging the correct shutter speeds even with a histogram is tricky too.
A 16-35 f2.8 on a full frame camera is nice for interiors, but you still lose that tons of concrete on top of me feel of being there. We have decommissioned antimissile/missile bases in the states; you would enjoy these!
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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