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Greetings /hr/
Abandonedfactoryfag here, If you liked the photos I took in that place I have a bit of a treat for you in store.
Today I visited what I kept thinking was essentially a real life version of The Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games. The place was enormous; it's an abandoned mental asylum that - at its peak - housed over 900 patients and staff. Here's a panorama to start with, showing some of the building. Original is 25k pixels wide, but never mind.
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This might be as awesome as that first guy's thread. Continue.
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>>452882
I'm the same guy :p
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hah, so you are. I misread your mini-wall of text. I am pumped for some hr awesome. By the way, what camera do you use? I'm curious because I'm interested in a digital SLR.
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I use a Nikon D300. I smashed my main lens in the aforementioned factory, so most of these are taken with my flatmate's Sigma 10-20mm.
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I see. What did you use for that panoramic shot, in terms of lenses? Was it a wide-angle lens?

I apologize in advance for the potentially asinine questions, I'm a photography newfag.
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The second panorama I posted was using the Sigma, the rest (thread op and ones I'm planning to post) were taken with an old Nikon 24-200.

Wide angle lenses (crap ones like the 10-20 at least) are not good for panoramas because they seriously distort the image which makes it difficult to line them up.
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One of the nurses homes.
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It was around here somewhere that the place started to remind me of The Zone.
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Awesome pictures, keep posting!
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The place also had a jacuzzi. Mental patients apparently get pampered.
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This door on the right was for a padded solitary confinement cell.
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You're not done already are you?!
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>>453045
I'm nowhere near out of photos. I am, however, going to bed. If this is here in the morning I'll post more.
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WOW! GREAT PICTURES! i hope to c more in the future :)
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>>453058
Damnit. Oh well, thanks for the ones posted so far! I look forward to more.
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Hrm, i wonder.... wich country are you from? Im guessing East european? Based on enviroment and having to go to bed now...
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>>453210
He's scottish if I remember correctly.
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>Abandonedfactoryfag here
stopped reading here
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Here we go again. Will probably be posting quite slow as I have a lot to do today.

And yeah, this is in north east Scotland.
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There was quite a lot of demolition going on around the main building.
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There was a deserted overgrown kid's play area that reminded me a lot of Pripyat
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This was apparently the house of the Chief Warden.
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Inside the house.
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Same house again.
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I applaud your dedication to awesome fucking pictures. You rule!
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I very nearly walked through this room to look out the window. It's only now that I've stared at it closely that I see what a stupid move that would have been.
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Think I might call it a day at this point.
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Ooh, I luvs you. Ty.
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One last thing. After we visited the hospital, we went to an old abandoned open-air swimming pool for 20 minutes.

This photo doesn't really do it justice.
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>>453858
If anyone is interested you can see a really tiny photo of the whole thing here
http://www1.clikpic.com/jasper8021/images/TARLAIR-POOL.jpg

Having seen that I'm kicking myself for not going up there to take a shot.
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Good stuff, if you have anymore please post them!
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>>453767

as a sparky that is really making me cringe.

Good photos mate.
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Chavs have trashed the place. A year ago it was fine, now I don't think I saw a single pane of class that wasn't smashed.
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Pity.... pity...
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*nudge*
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Can you put up a dl link for this? Great stuff btw.
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Need torrent now!
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Does this make set #4 for un-authentcated "abandonedfactory-fag"? Anone have the trip- for the original one? Or the link to the 2/3 sets someone upped to mininova?
This stuff is gold. :( I just hope he doesn't get cancer from the radiation.
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Urbex photography FTW
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Bump for a torrent. Possibly the other sets too? >_>
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slackninja.com
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Is it legal to do this in Scotland or are you sneaky enough to not get caught?
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>>454778
Haha, that name was merely a form of identification for this thread alone, I have no intention of becoming a tripfag or anything.

This is the torrent for the very first trip (I think, really can't remember) http://www.mininova.org/tor/1361420
Just noticed it's had 1290 downloads which is a hell of a lot more than I ever expected it to get.

The others are all dead.

I don't really have the time for a torrent of the rest. I might, but - uncompressed - I have around 40Gb of photos from the two places, and this computer is hardly ever on since I'm at work most of the time.

>>455056
Trespassing laws a very lax, at least compared to England. Generally, depending on the place you enter you'll only get a slap on the wrist, provided it isn't a mothballed power station or something, where you would be totally fucked.

Having said that, the guy I went to the Asylum with was arrested the previous week for trespassing and suspected theft (even though they neither took nor broke anything) in an abandoned castle, so now they're waiting to see if they're going to get charged.
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Very nice OP.

Very nice.

Suddenly my D60 looks like a disposable.
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If OP is ever in Fife, we should meet up for some trespass-photography fun.

Also, any chance of a torrent/rapidshit/etc. of this set?
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Which castle?
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Outdoor swimming pools in Scotland are made of win. I was on a field trip at the weekend & snapped this one on my ultra-compact, I keep meaning to go back to places like these with my proper kit sometime...
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And suddenly I have an erection.
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>Suddenly my D60 looks like a disposable.

Please don't judge the D300 off these photos. The camera is capable of SO much better image quality than those shown. I've spent the entire time going through the photos cringing because the quality you get from the Sigma lens is so awful. I'm going to try to avoid using it in future.

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Can't remember, I'll ask him and get back to you.
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bump. Can someone make a zip?