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Saturday

35mm

Over the last two years I've accumulated a number of film cameras. Whilst I wouldn't want to miss my digital SLR, film has got its moments. Pictures come out as they were shot, they have their unique film colours and maybe best, you have to wait until the film is shot and developed until you can view the pics, which is often months later.

During the last few weeks the annual exploring politics have once again sparked some heated discussions within the community. It made me questions my motives for leaving my comfy sofa night after night just to sneak around cold, long forgotten, other times well known places.

Errwood Plughole Abseil + Woodhead Tunnel

After two very sunny and warm weeks, the rain had come back to England. It was cold, windy, and just very very wet, just one of these days you retreat to your sofa and drink some warm tea.

Cranes, Industry and Metro

With no clear plans for the night, the five of us met once again at Gone's place and headed towards salford. Nick had seen a crane a while ago, and so we decided to have a look at it.

As the crane was completely illuminated and a security cabin was just opposite it, we opted for the roof of the concrete shell instead and discussed the further plans whilst enjoying a non-existent view.

By now we had agreed that the security cabin was most likely un-manned, so on our way down we might have been quite noisy. Just as we got off the scaffold, a door of the cabin opened and an angry man came running towards us shouting some stuff about trespassing.

A quick escape off the site, running and falling down a slope covered in spikey bushes and we found ourselves in an industrial estate.

I had never set a foot on a live plant before, but after a few failed attempts around the perimeter and a lot of encouragement from the other four, I was finding myself climbing up a ladder of a live chemical factory.

Thanks to the ever increasing automation in industrial plants, we did not see a single worker whilst running up the various staircases and corridors.

We proceeded past numerous warning signs and even a chemical shower to arrive on one of the roofs, from where we had a view over the whole site and also some time to relax. The fumes, coming from all sorts of valves around us, however, were not very pleasant so we quickly moved on.

The night was rounded off with a quick run into the local metro tunnel whilst finishing off some quality McDonalds food.

Wednesday

Random catch-up

Nearly 5 months now since the last post. Will hopefully get around to posting some old stuff in the near future.

Apologies to anyone analysing the noise patterns on oxford road, we might have added some inaccuracies to your data whilst up there.

Rave underneath a motorway bridge

© Gone: Drain Beach Party

Sunday

Old Trafford

This is not a post of a high rooftop, I was probably only 2 meters above ground. Neither is it an abandoned place considering there were most likely around 75,957 people in the stadium.

United was playing against Wolverhampton this weekend and I had always wanted to give football photography ago. Yet I would never have thought it could be that hard. After the first half i realised that using an 18-55 lens was an absolute waste of time unless you wanted to take some panorama shots of the stadium. But with a 300 zoom it was hard to follow the players and the majority of the pictures would either be very blurry or out of focus.

It was still quite a lot of fun though and I got a few decent pictures out of it.

First attempts at RAW and HDR editing

No HDR, but edited RAW file

HDR, high dynamic range images, have always fascinated me. Many people don't like them, including me in the beginning. This is because most examples you will see on forums or peoples websites are, in my opinion, just to unrealistic. They look more like a painting than a photo, and don't, in any way, represent what the original scenery which was photographed, looked like.

A few weeks ago I saw a number of very nice rooftop pics which fascinated me in every way: the colour, the range, it just looked awesome. I asked how they did it and it turned out they were hdr pictures.

My first HDR: Rheinkniebrücke, Düsseldorf, Germany

HDR for me had always been this negative way of editing pictures in my mind, but it slowly changed.
So yesterday I decided to give it a go myself. I must say, I do like the results. I know they aren't perfect, and I assume that many will not like them because they are HDR, but I'm fairly happy with my first attempts.