The night shift

[karenoliver]

Karen

[markgozz]

Fantastic looking plant Karen love all the pipe work it seems to have a real electric glow to it , I bet it looks as dull as dish water in daylight .
I like the way you have incorporated the tree in the third shot it's branches mirror the pipe work perfectly .

The only slight critique I have is that there are a couple of over exposed areas due to the flood lights .

Mark

[karenoliver]

Hi Mark , thanks for taking the time to comment. You're right about the floodlights, its so annoying and a pain. I toyed with the idea of making 2 seperate exposures of the same scene. Underexposing the floodlights on one and then blending them so the floodlights would look correct but I was freezing and just wanted to make some shots and get home in the warm! :-) Maybe I could underexpose in raw? I took these a couple of nights ago and wanted to go back today but the weather has just been miserable and very windy. I do think these sort of places look amazing at night but given the right sky and hopefully steam it might look okay in the day too :-)

Here is another one with the tree in :-)



Karen

[alfbranch]

Karen
Nice shots I like industrail shots myself but have taken very few as there is not much near here thats OK to shoot.

I think the white blanace on the first should be the same as the others.

[markgozz]

That latest shot is beautiful Karen , the contrast between nature and man works so well .
One more question for you , is there a dedicated light source pointing at the tree because it is lit perfectly .

Mark

[donoreo]

It is amazing how industrial scenes can be so interesting. Well done.

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by markgozz

That latest shot is beautiful Karen , the contrast between nature and man works so well .
One more question for you , is there a dedicated light source pointing at the tree because it is lit perfectly .

Mark

Yeah, it does and I wanted to show that in the shot so thanks for noticing :-)
The tree was just lit by the lights from the factory, it manufactures chip board and is called Kronospan, you might have heard of it.

Karen

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by alfbranch

Karen
Nice shots I like industrail shots myself but have taken very few as there is not much near here thats OK to shoot.

I think the white blanace on the first should be the same as the others.

Thanks Alf :-) Well, I was in the middle of a huge field that runs right alongside it and I think it was public space as it was signposted for the train station. I think if you shoot these places from public land there is no problems. The white balance is the same on the first but I used Photoshop to crossprocess it to look like Fuji provia film, that's why it has a different tint.

Karen

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by donoreo

It is amazing how industrial scenes can be so interesting. Well done.

Thanks, Don and yeah the industrial landscape for me is my favourite form of landscape photography, don't know why but I prefer this to beautiful mountain scenes or coastal scenes :-)

Karen