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    Detroit Decay / Detroit Streets.

    ive been going downtown detroit shooting for about a year now. learned how to get around and all that cool stuff. standard proceedure is to pick up a few 40's, and hang out, snapping shots.

    anyhow, heres a couple from yesterday. i have alot more. but ill just toss up a few at a time. but anyhow, i like to do alot of HDR's. i dont like uber fake shit though, so i mess with them to flatten them a bit. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.

    packard plant. 3.5 million square feet. all abaondoned. well, almost all abandoned. you run into squatters and scrappers on occasion.





    yeah, we chill on the rooftop of an 80+ year old building, drinking 40's. haha.



    we also hit up the old Boblo Terminal on the west side, right on the detroit river. its cool. we didnt make it really into the building. we were just chilling out on the loading docks. ran out of beerz, and decided to get some more.
    started to sprinkle.


    i have some weird shit going on in this one.






    like i said, thats just from yesterday. ive got LOTS more from lots of other locations. if anyone is interested, i shoot an XTi with either a tamron 28-70 F/2.8, or my sigma 10-20mm. the wide angle is on 95% of the time though.
    thanks for looking.
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    damn. impressive shots. love the composition. really makes the not so great subjects interesting.

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    I'm always amazed that places like this still exist. The second shot and the one with the rain are my favorite. Nice work.

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    Nice pictures man! I'm looking to pick up my first DSLR in a few weeks.
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    thanks fellas! ill toss up a few more before i head off to work. then prob some more tonight.

    michigan central station. built in 1913, abandoned in 1988.


    heres the front entrance way at MCS.


    another. this time inside the packard plant. 2nd floor.


    Packard, from the roof a few weeks ago.


    heres one of my favorites. from inside the main lobby at MCS. its 76 feet to the peak of the ceiling.


    looking out a window on a dimal day at the packard plant.


    some of the staircases we climb are uber effed up. this one is still in decent shape. it takes malt liquor to get me to climb some of them. haha.


    some places get pretty iced over in the winter.


    packard rooftop, again.


    St. Agnes church, detroit. abandoned. getting hit by scrappers. it was locked up pretty good. but that changed for a while. till it was on the news. haha.


    the old fischer body plant.


    belle isle zoo. also abandoned.

    it was kinda tricky getting into there. foggy day. it was cool.


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    another church in detroit.


    same church/school.






    ill end on that note. sorry for so many pictures. but like i said, i have alot of 'em.
    if anyone like, i can post up some more after work tonight. thanks for looking.


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    HOLY hell some of those are "deep/wide" shots. Very nice pictures man, very nice!
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    When/why were all of these things abandoned?

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    those are great shots... are these right from the camera or are they edited? if edited how much PP did you put into them? just simple Contrast/brightness/white balance or fancy Photoshop stuff?


    Thanks

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    Very cool shots! I especially like the long, wooden walkway shot.

    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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    Very nice collection of pics there. Looks like some of the areas could have been really nice at one point in time

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    Quote Originally Posted by SilverBeam View Post
    When/why were all of these things abandoned?
    Im guessing unemployment, high crime rate, and corrupt political leaders and mayors made that Detroit what it is today. Not all of the city its like that, but there are alot of abandoned buildings. Which is creepy, but pretty interesting to see how a populated city came to ruins and now hundreds of buildings are dead, looks like something out of a nuclear war movie, where everyone is dead, and the buildings are left like that.

    The pictures are pretty interesting and cool looking, good job on them.

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    Very nice shots. Urban wastelands like this are always fascinating.

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    Very well done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobby Bonko View Post
    those are great shots... are these right from the camera or are they edited? if edited how much PP did you put into them? just simple Contrast/brightness/white balance or fancy Photoshop stuff?


    Thanks
    almost all of them are HDR'd. thus meaning i merged 5+ shots, with different exposures together. then tonemapped them to get the detail i wanted. i used photomatix pro to do the HDR work. then i use lightroom to further edit. and then, i open them up in CS3, and add my border and sig. im a big proponent of post processing. i edit all of my photos. some oldschool purists are highly against it. but i see it as a tool in the digial world. its ever evolving, so why not use it??

    Quote Originally Posted by fijimon05 View Post
    Im guessing unemployment, high crime rate, and corrupt political leaders and mayors made that Detroit what it is today. Not all of the city its like that, but there are alot of abandoned buildings. Which is creepy, but pretty interesting to see how a populated city came to ruins and now hundreds of buildings are dead, looks like something out of a nuclear war movie, where everyone is dead, and the buildings are left like that.

    The pictures are pretty interesting and cool looking, good job on them.
    you hit the nail on the head. there is no money in detroit. thus, the buildings still stand. many of them had been guarded for a while. but funds for guards/security ran out.


    thanks for the comments, fellas.


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    wow, your pictures are spectacular
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    hell. ill toss up some more.
    fascinating is an excellent word for these places. there is so much history behind them. i like to share these photos with other people from around the world. many cant fathom how, or even why these places still exist today. it really is amazing. on top of that factor, there is always a risk you take when getting these shots. old, unsafe buildings. you run into some 'interesting' characters too. scrappers, squatters, homeless, some down right shady folks sometimes. then you run across suburban 'kids' like myself, doing the same sort of thing.

    MCS


    MCS.




    packard.








    random abaondoned, burnt down house.


    the train station (MCS). you may recongnize it from the transformers movie. its the one megatron chased the kid into at the end. when they went up on the roof.


    fischer body.


    another shot from the zoo. closed down in '04.


    from the roof of the train station. MCS. it was covered in ice. scary scary.

    it was a 20 flight hike up to the roof.

    same. thats the ambassador bridge. the other side is windsor ontario. yup, canada.

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    train station again. from the fall.


    packard.


    fischer.

    nothing on the other side of the door. just a stright shot down 5 stories. haha.

    ill end on that note once again. ive got more. but thats a shit ton of pictures. thanks for looking


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    Wow. You got some skills there sir. Can you post some more pictures?



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    it's no E30 :/
    very nice

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    Loved this thread. Good work!!!

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    Amazing photos man. Some of the best places to take photos in my opinion. Wish we had more of those abandoned buildings around here. I love the decadent look. +1 on post processing. Grats on keeping them normal looking and not going for the crazy overboard HDR look.

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    We should def get together sometime, and maybe teach me a thing or 2 =D

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    more of the zoo man. All of them are awesome though.

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