Boatyard, Mills and a School

Hey,

Haven't posted on here for a while nor have I visited any sites for a while, but that has changed these past two months.

I've put all my visits into one thread.

Thought I'd start with a regular derelict site....

While we were there (me and my gf) we saw a couple of dodgey going's on, three men scouting around looking to steal materials.



Took us ages to find the pool, we actually had to come back later that day.

Boatyard, Plymouth still in use. Site was more like a scrapyard full of treasure!!


Leeds and Halifax Mills



I'm not actually sure what this building was. Its down in Hunslet, Leeds. Couldn't get access because developers were there.

Your HDRs make my eyes bleed, but props to you for getting a shot of that old Audi 100, I used to drive a 1989 one, like a barge on wheels it was.

I can't in all honesty say I like your HDR at all; I think it's really quite seriously overdone. IMHO, HDR technology is supposed to try to bring a comparatively narrow dynamic range pic or series of pix to a closer approximation of the wide dynamic range representation that the eye perceives, and not to make things look entirely unrealistic.

The link to your site doesn't work. Check your upper/lower case.

I do apologise for being so negative, but I think derelict places are precious and should be reasonably faithfully recorded for posterity by the lucky few who get access, though some poetic post-processing licence is acceptable, and indeed quite common on this site, but not to this extent.

God, I do go on a bit, don't I.

Alan

un-thank

Taken from our [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=16286"]guide to posting location reports[/ame]:

We would also prefer it if post-processing of photos is kept to a minimum, overly HDRd photos are not an accurate representation of the building and do nothing to give the viewer an idea of the location. Subtle is ok, overboard is not. Whilst we are aware that this is a devisive point and that HDR images can be considered artistic, we need to draw the line somewhere and will remove reports containing images that look more like CGI than photos. This is after all a website dedicated to documenting buildings, not one documenting artistic work.

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The HDR is horrific

Please can you replace these with less edited versions?

Some of the shots would have actually had more impact if they had been in black n white rather than coloured up so to speak..