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The photo-blog of an entirely unknown photographer.
u n d e r e x p o s e d
I don't even know how I managed to find time for this photo set, but yesterday morning I woke up long before the sun came up and I knew it was time for me to go take photos. For lack of any other ideas I returned to Umore Park and the ruins of the never completed Gopher Ordnance facility. In the time since I last shot there, about 6 weeks ago I've finally learned about the site and what it was. Apparently it was built in the 1940s as an ordnance manufacturing facility but was never finished before the end of WWII.
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I don't know why I find so much beauty in this site of decay and abandonment, but there's something strangely serene about the apocalyptic feel of this place that I just can't help but keep coming back to. I fully intend to come back here once the snow has fallen, or better yet as the snow is falling if I can manage it. I love this site. There is so much there too, much of it off limits and not accessible. I would love to be able to go into some of the old buildings which are still standing, but alas I doubt that will ever happen.
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So as I arrived the sun was not yet up and there was frost, yes frost, on the tips of the foliage and a very light fog in the trees. There were times I finally managed to stop taking photographs and simply admire the view, to truly appreciate the beauty of where I was as more than photographic fodder. I think that's a point I miss sometimes: so concerned with grasping the shot I fail to grasp the moment I'm living in. Sorry, I'm getting a little existential here.
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I don't really have a good technical note today other than to say that my handheld HDR has gone back to crap, but I'm FINALLY getting the process for doing HDRs as a set down. Took long enough to figure out how to reasonably go through the process of sorting, HDR merging, tone mapping, editing and balancing, and finally exporting and how to mix HDRs into sets with single frame exposures, but at long last. If Adobe puts useful HDR processing (or a way to talk to photoshop plugins) in Lightroom 3.0 I'm relatively sure I'll never touch photoshop again.
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