I'm about to go off exploring an old, worn down building. While I don't think I'll find art in there, I am very interesting in seeing what textures and shadows I can find, looking at it through my eyes, thinking of the tiny details you highlight with these countless posts of yours.
So you had "back up" with you. Is it safe in there? Around here either the cops or maybe other people might claim the place as their own. There's not much of anything empty until you get way out my area.
The building was open to us, as my friend (Erin) knows the owner (a doctor) - who is currently refurbishing the building to act as a mental health / specialist hub for people in the area. It is a well positioned, grandoise sort of structure. It has cameras, and we were there with the owner's blessings.
I am too much of a stickler for the rules to go onto property uninvited, as much I would like to, I would feel too uncomfortable and unwelcome (even in the absence of others) to explore a place I wouldn't be welcomed to.
Aha! I'm so much the same about following rules. Especially trespassing. That and street photography. I would love to do candids but It just is so intrusive and I don't have that desire to talk my way out of things if anyone were to confront me.
When I was a kid though with friends we did a lot of climbing around in construction sites. There used to be vacant lots around my neighborhood and they started building pretty big apartment buildings. Back then there were no fences around the sites and we just walked right in. No one really cared as long as you were quiet and didn't vandalize anything.
In Australia, street photography is completely legal, and there's a great article on the artslaw website about what you can and can't do. Basically, all public places are a free for all, provided you're not going to use it in a commercial advertising campaign.
When I get a job (again), I want to rebuy a 70-200 f/2.8 lens so I can nab those candid portraits "better". The longest lens I have at the moment is a 105mm, and that's a macro lens at that.
I'm taking my camera (I'll probably take my 85 f/1.2 and my 35mmf/1.8 to a friend's music launch / birthday celebration later this week, so perhaps I will get some candid shots of the audience as well of the performance.
Regarding construction sites, they're so rife with liability in almost every jurisdiction these days. I remember in my youth, a friend drunk, jumping a construction fence, running up to the machinery, and shouting "I LOVE YOU" before embracing the bulldozer.
It was a great memory that probably wouldn't happen to people who were my age then, now.
I'm about to go off exploring an old, worn down building. While I don't think I'll find art in there, I am very interesting in seeing what textures and shadows I can find, looking at it through my eyes, thinking of the tiny details you highlight with these countless posts of yours.
Hi. How did it go?
It went quite well. I'll make a full post later (I'm about a week behind!), but here's some preview for you!
Some shapes
My mate, Daniel
Some more shapes
(and my friend, Erin, sitting just below the composition, out of shot) - painting the reddish bathroom
Still very much a work in progress in terms of finishing these images
So you had "back up" with you. Is it safe in there? Around here either the cops or maybe other people might claim the place as their own. There's not much of anything empty until you get way out my area.
The building was open to us, as my friend (Erin) knows the owner (a doctor) - who is currently refurbishing the building to act as a mental health / specialist hub for people in the area. It is a well positioned, grandoise sort of structure. It has cameras, and we were there with the owner's blessings.
I am too much of a stickler for the rules to go onto property uninvited, as much I would like to, I would feel too uncomfortable and unwelcome (even in the absence of others) to explore a place I wouldn't be welcomed to.
Aha! I'm so much the same about following rules. Especially trespassing. That and street photography. I would love to do candids but It just is so intrusive and I don't have that desire to talk my way out of things if anyone were to confront me.
When I was a kid though with friends we did a lot of climbing around in construction sites. There used to be vacant lots around my neighborhood and they started building pretty big apartment buildings. Back then there were no fences around the sites and we just walked right in. No one really cared as long as you were quiet and didn't vandalize anything.
In Australia, street photography is completely legal, and there's a great article on the artslaw website about what you can and can't do. Basically, all public places are a free for all, provided you're not going to use it in a commercial advertising campaign.
When I get a job (again), I want to rebuy a 70-200 f/2.8 lens so I can nab those candid portraits "better". The longest lens I have at the moment is a 105mm, and that's a macro lens at that.
I'm taking my camera (I'll probably take my 85 f/1.2 and my 35mmf/1.8 to a friend's music launch / birthday celebration later this week, so perhaps I will get some candid shots of the audience as well of the performance.
Regarding construction sites, they're so rife with liability in almost every jurisdiction these days. I remember in my youth, a friend drunk, jumping a construction fence, running up to the machinery, and shouting "I LOVE YOU" before embracing the bulldozer.
It was a great memory that probably wouldn't happen to people who were my age then, now.