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| 1 2 | UER Forum > UE Main > What do you look for in an abandonment? (Viewed 8538 times) |
theduckling
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| | | Re: What do you look for in an abandonment? < Reply # 2 on 12/1/2015 6:35 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Graffiti doesn't bother me personally, I don't mind if the building is painted head to toe. That being said what I like is when a building is completely left alone, no security, no cop patrols, and no close neighbors. Those buildings are typically the ones that I get the best photos. You can take your time and stay for hours, make yourself feel at home. I remember this one building, covered in graffiti, and we were sitting there in these chairs just talking looking at everything in this one room when I realized that this one square of light was approaching this seemingly unfinished graffiti. Some kid had added a few lines to some cut away pipes and made a dinosaur with a body of light. Any other time of day and it looked stupid. Any day that has clouds for that 10 minutes it was a stupid unfinished head, tail, and legs. Even those stupid kids have their moments, the painting was still terrible but I liked the idea of it. I think of it as part of the decay. When I have to sneak into a building and time the amount of minutes the security guard takes on his hourly rounds constantly worrying about where my flashlight is shining holding my breath at every creak and moan of the building the anxiety kills it for me and I can't just relax and enjoy the scenery. People are just in it for different reasons I guess, I'm not an explorer, I'm a photographer. When I think about this it makes sense to me why the graffiti bothers the explorers out there, I would hate to be reminded as well that I am probably not even the first one to set foot in this place since last week.
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| theduckling
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| | | Re: What do you look for in an abandonment? < Reply # 15 on 12/2/2015 8:36 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | This video: Our Greatest Delusion ( https://youtu.be/EKR-HydGohQ) Ah a fellow redditor I see. I thought of the same post/video when I saw his comment. Great video. Rocks.
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| Collaro
Location: Mississauga, Ontario Total Likes: 24 likes
Sea-dragon Sass.
| | | | Re: What do you look for in an abandonment? < Reply # 17 on 12/22/2015 6:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Personally? Places that are more or less generally untouched, because the state of just dust covering objects left as they were exactly 20, 30 years back, it's like walking in on something straight out of an apocalypse film essentially. There's something about it, something like how life just decided to one day stop, the clock no longer ticking, and nobody around for miles. That said, I despite most graffiti, except for tasteful artwork like a mural of sorts, as those take some skill to make rather than some idiot's scrawlings. For instance, in a building in Detroit, specifically the Roosevelt Warehouse that burned 30 years back. An artist painted a mural of a book rising from the ashes like a Phoenix. That, fits the location perfectly.
Other than that, i like places that are mostly intact, but they can be weather-worn, have peeling paint. Generally it depends on exactly how it looks for me. My main requirements are; 1. It has stuff. even big stuff like industrial machines, or maybe just a handful of personal effects like a television and a bed, some chairs. 2. It's not a completely empty, color-lacking, wall-missing, floor-crumbling concrete ruin. There's enough of those as is. The reason for this is because color is generally needed to make a lot of images look good, at least ones that aren't intentionally monochromatic. A grey concrete shell isn't interesting for photos mainly because everyone KNOWS it's supposed to look grey, so even monochroming it wouldn't save it. in essence, it's all about the way the structure looks and it's colors. Having things like furniture also adds color.
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