HOME | DD

Description
My entry for the Abandoned places contest. (more at [link] )

Any ideas WTF is this? lol

Okay, it’s the inside of an old abandoned water-cooling tower in Brno. The shape and construction is similar to cooling towers used at nuclear power plants, but as this one belongs to the old steam plants, it is several times smaller. The object was declared a technical monument.

In this picture I tried to show the “wooden like” texture inscribed into the concrete by water and interesting lighting given by the construction itself. For both the HDR worked best.

Chosen composition compromises the angle, where both the light coming down through the tower and the water with its reflections and textures are visible, and give some dynamic to the otherwise static scene. The hard part was the fact the tower was recently fixed to prevent people from getting in (latticed round the base) so I was unable to use tripod or even to look in the viewfinder when shooting through the lattice, as I had to push the camera through it. Moreover only half of the pool was flooded.

Processing:
A single shot HDR with some blendings, curves and noise reduction.

Enjoy and thank you for your comments!

Description
My entry for the Abandoned places contest. (more at [link] )

Any ideas WTF is this? lol

Okay, it’s the inside of an old abandoned water-cooling tower in Brno. The shape and construction is similar to cooling towers used at nuclear power plants, but as this one belongs to the old steam plants, it is several times smaller. The object was declared a technical monument.

In this picture I tried to show the “wooden like” texture inscribed into the concrete by water and interesting lighting given by the construction itself. For both the HDR worked best.

Chosen composition compromises the angle, where both the light coming down through the tower and the water with its reflections and textures are visible, and give some dynamic to the otherwise static scene. The hard part was the fact the tower was recently fixed to prevent people from getting in (latticed round the base) so I was unable to use tripod or even to look in the viewfinder when shooting through the lattice, as I had to push the camera through it. Moreover only half of the pool was flooded.

Processing:
A single shot HDR with some blendings, curves and noise reduction.

Enjoy and thank you for your comments!