Challenge: Rural Decay (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Places
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Lorton, VA
Date: Dec 12, 2009
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Rural, High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2009
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Also shot out at the old Lorton prison. There are a couple of nice, old, decaying houses out there. They may have been homes for the wardens or something. There is also an old barn, but it's next to a new high school and on the grounds of a golf course so it doesn't look so rural. There was once a huge working farm on the prison grounds, the idea being it should be both work and sustenance for the prisoners. Long ago.
Shot through a chain link fence; if that wasn't there I might have gone for the whole house view. It's old and has character, and a huge, marvelously shaped tree out front. And that big chain link fence in between the tree and the house ::sigh:: So I'm going for the closer view. I do like the ripped screen and the moss, vines and leaves gradually reclaiming the house.
PP - qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.126, detail factor 4). Opened tonemapped image as layer in PhotoImpact and merged with original file at 50% transparency, flipped upright, cropped some, decreased gamma, burned a bit at bottom, increased saturation and contrast, decreased saturation on blue/cyan, colored screen browner in places, resized, sharpened, added border. |
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