Abandoned mining town HDR

rookieshooter

Went to New Idria in CA. It was abandoned some time ago. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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DonRicklin

Looks like a very interesting place to shoot! Love the series and the HDR work. Not over blown!

However, where some great overblown images could have merit would be Rust abstracts in the many opportunities you have here. Especially with the the care in the Last shot!

Time for a second series!

Don

DJT

Somehow I knew DonRicklin would post on the rusty car

Nice collection of photos. The people in that town must have ate alot of salads.... so many bottles of dressing......... more than my local Walmart carries.

kdog

Cool shots, a little oversaturated for my tastes.

Dogdots

I've never seen so many bottles of salad dressing. I agree with David .. the town must of ate a lot of salads.

Enjoyed your series of photos very much. I liked them all, but the salad dressing photo keeps drawing me back to look some more.

Any information on this place you could share with us?

rookieshooter

Dogdots wrote: »

I've never seen so many bottles of salad dressing. I agree with David .. the town must of ate a lot of salads.

Enjoyed your series of photos very much. I liked them all, but the salad dressing photo keeps drawing me back to look some more.

Any information on this place you could share with us?

You can find more here: http://www.new-idria.org/

Rest of series: http://joshnorem.smugmug.com/Other/New-Idria-Mine/16872287_v4vwws#1274170944_ng4WHgZ

Thanks for the critique. As far as being too saturated, I reduced saturation in most of them if not all to around 70% to make things less red but didn't bother masking in anything from the normal exposures. What can I say, I'm lazy

Dogdots

rookieshooter wrote: »

You can find more here: http://www.new-idria.org/

Rest of series: http://joshnorem.smugmug.com/Other/New-Idria-Mine/16872287_v4vwws#1274170944_ng4WHgZ

Thanks for the critique. As far as being too saturated, I reduced saturation in most of them if not all to around 70% to make things less red but didn't bother masking in anything from the normal exposures. What can I say, I'm lazy

Thanks for the info .. looks like a fascinating place to visit. I'm surprised you can just roam on in there. Certainly a place I'd love to visit.

Still am perplexed as to why there was so many bottle of salad dressing and after looking at your other photos .. all the cans of what looks like tomatoes

Great work

DonRicklin

Dogdots wrote: »

Thanks for the info .. looks like a fascinating place to visit. I'm surprised you can just roam on in there. Certainly a place I'd love to visit.

Still am perplexed as to why there was so many bottle of salad dressing and after looking at your other photos .. all the cans of what looks like tomatoes

Great work

Italian mining enclave?



Don

rookieshooter

Dogdots wrote: »

Thanks for the info .. looks like a fascinating place to visit. I'm surprised you can just roam on in there. Certainly a place I'd love to visit.

Still am perplexed as to why there was so many bottle of salad dressing and after looking at your other photos .. all the cans of what looks like tomatoes

Great work

I think technically its probably trespassing but there is nobody around. At one point there was an official looking vehicle there with a lightbar on top of it but he saw us with our cameras and didn't do a thing; even waved to us, so I think as long as you're not doing any harm it's fine. It is pretty dangerous though. The main building's ceiling has collapsed and the whole time we were in there it seemed like the whole thing could come down at any moment, but luckily that didn't happen.

Wicked_Dark

The chandelier shot is really great. And yeah, what's with all that salad dressing?

Dogdots

rookieshooter wrote: »

I think technically its probably trespassing but there is nobody around. At one point there was an official looking vehicle there with a lightbar on top of it but he saw us with our cameras and didn't do a thing; even waved to us, so I think as long as you're not doing any harm it's fine. It is pretty dangerous though. The main building's ceiling has collapsed and the whole time we were in there it seemed like the whole thing could come down at any moment, but luckily that didn't happen.

Nice to know it's being watched. Makes it safer for photographers. You wouldn't want to come across anyone camping out there, etc.

I'd sure like to find a place like this, but I did put it on my list of 'where I want to go'

Glad to hear you made it in and out of there safely.