Posts Tagged ‘urban’
urban exploring
Image by Wim Vandenbussche
desserted recreation area near Heuvelland (Belgium)
Urban decay
Image by Giara
Lodz
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Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Urban Decay
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Urban Fashion Graffiti Key Ring – Juicy – Urban Fashion Graffiti Key Ring – Juicy
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Urban Treeson
Image by Andy Woo
Image of production sample.
urban exploring
Image by Wim Vandenbussche
desserted recreation area near Heuvelland (Belgium)
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Urban Art by Night (Melbourne, Docklands)
Image by escapethematrix
Active Assignment for the Week of 16 to 23 April: In the Dark
Technical restrictions teach us new ways to use our cameras and make us see things in different ways. Let’s challenge ourselves this week by shooting in the dark. You can take your photos at night, or simply in a dark room. There are many great examples of this kind of photography. Here are some ideas:
1. Long exposures with movement. Star trails, images of traffic at night, etc.
2. Street lights and city lights at night (think Vegas, baby!).
3. A dark room with a lamp illuminating only part of the image.
There are some groups on flickr devoted to this kind of photography. Look around to get inspiration:
The No-Flash Night Shots group.
The Nocturnes – Night Photography group.
The Urban Night Shots group.
Also: fireworks!
Restriction: don’t use the flash on your camera (or any external flash/strobe).
Dare: Get some people in your shot!
WIT: Steady tripod, 4sec exposure and a warm jacket as it was very cool on the docks last night! 
The Urban Explorers: Andrew, BgKahuna, and Me. Closeup. Abandoned City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana.
Image by slworking2
City Methodist Church, 577 Washington St. (empty for years) stands nine stories tall. The Church made unique use of commercial and office space, classrooms, meeting rooms, an auditorium and a large sanctuary. Storefronts (visible in this picture) were incorporated into the building. The building still stands, but is in desperate need of stabilization. One architect has offered plans to turn the church into a "ruins garden" like those found in Europe.
Even in abandonment, this building is beautiful and a source of fascination for many. It has been photographed, explored and documented by countless people. Photographer Robert Perisho dedicated an entire photographic exhibition to the church in 1997 at the Lake Street Gallery in Miller. Some of the information on this page comes from his essay and fact sheet on the church.
This church was badly damaged in a fire in 1997.
The church was built at a cost of more than million by the Rev. William G. Seaman in 1926. United States Steel Corp. donated funds to complete the building.
The church is in the traditional English Gothic style of architecture, like some of the buildings that the famed United States Military Academy at West Point and elsewhere throughout the United states.
This was, and is, a remarkable building: besides the cathedral, there was a four story community center with classrooms, an auditorium, a motion picture booth, a banquet hall and kitchen, a fellowship garden, a large meeting hall, a gymnasium and a rooftop garden. The building was built to be not only at church, but a place for the entire community to gather.
Sadly, due to the shifting population of Northwest Indiana, the congregation of the church shrank drastically in the 1960s and could no longer afford the upkeep of the building. A committee held a meeting in October 1974 to determine the fate of the church. They decided to relocate and close the church as of January 3rd, 1975. The building was sold to Indiana University as a campus extension but nothing was done with it..
The building was used sporadically as church by another congregation, a local dance center and a halfway home for underprivileged children and single parents, but it eventually fell into abandonment and disuse. The building stands open to the elements and vandals.
Previously. the building was under the ownership of B&R Realty in Gary, listed to a Trades, Inc. but now may be owned by the city of Gary.
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
urban life
Image by Pedro Moura Pinheiro
Canon PowerShot G9
1/1250 of a second – f/2.8 – ISO 80
I tried to imitate the Lomo image quality, but also the concept in terms of subject, as it’s used a lot by the low-budget, young, urban, “in” crowd. This is a flower growing on the wall of the Loretto Church in Chiado in Lisbon, pointed to me by a co-worker who passes by it everyday. In terms of the image treatment, I did the following:
* Whole image
o Adjusted the levels to clip the highlights slightly
o Lowered the saturation
o Shifted the color cast a little into the yellow
o Blurred it very slightly
* On the edges only (new layer with a mask)
o Darkened it to simulate the Lomo lens’ vignetting
o Blurred it more with Gaussian blur
o Distorted it with the Glass effect to simulate the Lomo lens’ edge astigmatism
Urban Decay
Image by szeke
While walking along the Danube on the Buda side you go past a whole section of abandoned buildings. They look like they were nice in their day.
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Urban Textures at Dawn
Image by Art By Steve Johnson
Urban texture
Sex / Erotica for Women: Candida Royalle’s Urban Heat VHS [VHS]
A sensual heat shimmers above city streets. Dormant passions come alive. The weekend is here, and you get a grand tour of sizzling encounters between lovers and strangers, complete with hot music and striking cinematography.