Derelict Colonnade

Although I love derelict objects as photographic subject matter I find it odd that a society can leave such a beautiful structure like this to decay. I'm sure another use could have been found for it.

The scan looks o.k. to me. You seem to have got the exposure just right to get plenty of detail.

Steve.

It looks like the day was productive for you. I am sorry that I missed the trip.

Thanks Dan! I had a great time despite a more than average number of malfunctions. Perhaps next time I'll see ya.

Things are a bit different here in the States Steve. The building wasn't designed for people with cars, it was designed for carriages, of course most of England/Europe can say the same. From what I heard there were many floors above the main one that were built but they could never find tennants for. It was no doubt expensive to maintain let alone heat, atiquated, and didn't survive the first Exodus of Detroit. This is just the tip of the iceberg of abandoned structures around here.

Terrific exposure, looks like "Planet of the Apes" might come to pass after all. Act 1 ,Scene 1.

Cheers
TEX

Another great shot.

It was a fun time - you'll have to come next time Dan. Now we need a photo of the great burrito that James had afterwards ...

awesome location, Love the shot. shame such tresure are left to ruin. what was this used for?

Thanks Tex, Stephen, and Jeff. That burrito was friggin awesome. Steph, the building was a train station.

I like this a lot, when you say crunchier from the scan, do you mean that the grey area's look sort of weird and not properly tone shifted? I've noticed this too, not sure what you're scanning with, but I've discovered that if I use the manual "choose the area to scan" option, if you move the area you choose to cut out the frame edges or the part that shows the film holder (effectively cropping the image SLIGHTLY) that issue goes away. It seems to be something about how the "auto exposure" reads the negative and it's totaling the image area's data, except sometimes including the negative holder in the information which confuses the true black and white points and makes a weird grey... anyway hope that's helpful.

Im using a fairly dated Epson 4870 do scan. I usually manually select the area to be scanned then adjust the ends of the curve to include a little extra info. I just couldn't get the tones of the print to line up with scan as well as most. The detail in the shadows got lost while the middle greys are kinda blah. The print is snappier and I had a hard time representing that in the web version. Thanks for the tips!

jmxphoto said:

Im using a fairly dated Epson 4870 do scan. I usually manually select the area to be scanned then adjust the ends of the curve to include a little extra info. I just couldn't get the tones of the print to line up with scan as well as most. The detail in the shadows got lost while the middle greys are kinda blah. The print is snappier and I had a hard time representing that in the web version. Thanks for the tips!

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At least you can make print versions, you're well ahead of me there, but I can tell when something is off and play around with the position of the selected area until I feel I have the correct curve for how the print would look (in theory).