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Abandoned factory Anonymous
Hello, Anonymous.

Some of you may remember a thread several months ago from a trip into a large abandoned factory. I went back again yesterday, armed with the photo gear I lacked the first time around. Despite smashing a £500 lens on the factory floor, I've come away a lot happier with the photos this time.

Would you guys like to see them?

If yes, please suggest some software I can use to upload all these here, because I can easily fill a thread, but I can't be bothered doing it all manually.
>> Anonymous
Yes please post them, megaupload them if you have to!
>> Anonymous
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Okay, I'll be sporadically uploading photos until I'm not so busy.

There are some photos from places I covered the last time, but mostly they're totally new areas.
>> Anonymous
still waiting for moar
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The opening on the far right here is an open lift shaft.
>> Anonymous
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>>396432
Yeah, sorry about the wait. The distraction is gone, so now I'll spam them.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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Lift shaft again.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
moar
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Note the date on this one.
>> Anonymous
where is this place?
>> Anonymous
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This room was a little weird. The door only came up to my shoulders (and I'm not tall), which I couldn't think of a reason for.

I was tempted to take a book with me, but I thought they would fall apart if I tried to move them. Maybe next time.
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>>396448
Aberdeen, Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richards_of_Aberdeen
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Basically everything you can see in this photo is abandoned.

Only exception is building with the glass still intact and the fancy window frames.
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>> Anonymous
the one building a few pics up looks like it warped or something. is that just an illusion?
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>> Anonymous
>>396458
It's caused by the wide-angle lens I used. All the photos are distorted like that, but it's not so obvious with most of them.

You can correct it in Photoshop, but I haven't bothered.
>> Anonymous
lulz, sauce
>> Anonymous
>>396453
WTF
Looks shopped
>> Anonymous
Abandoned buildings rule.
>> Anonymous
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Forgot pic.
>> Anonymous
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Piteå, sweden

It's an old boathouse by the docks.

just felt like this was the right place to dump it
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>>396466
Someone has never been introduced to polarising filters.

Almost none of these have been altered apart from sharpening and occasionally minor curves changes. Mostly they're untouched.
>> Anonymous
the rope on the door of the sauce pic intrigues me
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>> Anonymous
Are you the one who uploaded a torrent?

I downloaded that, it was fucking awesome. I really want to fucking go there. Does anyone know of a site that lists abandoned places around like this around the world? I want to see if there is anything near Nebraska, but don't know where to look.
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>>396478
Yeah, I was the guy who created that torrent a while ago. It's still alive, believe it or not.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but this forum has an extensive collection of places in the UK, and is where I've learned about a number of abandoned areas near me. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/index.php

Thanks to them, some friends and I visited an enormous old catholic school last Friday, which was awesome, and we're probably going to an abandoned mental hospital this week . Might upload the photos from that some time. Here's one from the school.
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Anyway, on with the factory.
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(I liked this little bit)
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This corridor was extremely narrow. No idea why.
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And at the end of that narrow corridor, someone had written this;
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The doorway on the right is the narrow corridor.
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>> Anonymous
>>396478
Try searching on wikimapia.org, it has every fucking bus stop marked in my area.
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>> Anonymous
>>396371
How many of these did you use HDR on?
>> Anonymous
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The white and red building on the right is where the last photo was taken from.
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>>396518
So far, zero, unless you include the random photo I posted from an abandoned school in>>396483

You're probably not going to believe that, so I can upload the RAW files if that'll be acceptable confirmation.

I did take bracketed exposures about 10 times during the trip, but I ended up not liking how any of them turned out, so I've not been posting them.
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>> Anonymous
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Somehow I started posting these totally out of order.
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Right, I think I'm going to take a break for a while.

Will probably post some more tomorrow if anyone wants me to.
>> Anonymous
>Will probably post some more tomorrow if anyone wants me to.

Keep it coming man, this shit is great.
>> Anonymous
Good job anon. I will be expecting moar soon.
>> Anonymous
I love you op.
Dearly not Queerly
>> Anonymous
Your mission: go check out what's in those old books. take photos. post here.

great photos btw
>> Anonymous
hhey op what fisheye do you have? 10 mm is fucking awesome
>> Anonymous
>>396446
>Note the date
Where?
>> Anonymous
>>396906
it says 1909 on the paper
>> Anonymous
>>396446
also, lol converse footprint
>> Anonymous
URBAN EXPLORATION FUCK YEAH
>> Anonymous
there are truly amazing! thank you so much for sharing them with us ^.^


i wish i lived in the UK so i could visit some of these places... they'd make amazing photo shoots (i do a little modeling for fun) i got so many ideas from these photos... sucks that i'll have to make do around my area though >.<
you should definitely post some from the mental hospital if you do go... that would be creepy as shit just to be somewhere like that... to me anyway XD
>> Anonymous
I remember this posting from last time... was this ever megauploaded?
>> Anonymous
>>396935
They were different photos last time and no they weren't.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
Ssweet shots!
>> Anonymous
Damn! Came here from /b/, pleasantly surprised. This is some pretty damn good stuff.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
I have an old abandoned church a few hours away from me that's awesome. I really need to go in there and take some shots one of these days. Wish i had some old factories too, but im not that lucky ;(
>> Anonymous
thanks, these are appreciated. maybe some hdr next time?
>> Anonymous
The image “http://orz.4chan.org/hr/src/1217876974061.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors

wtf. I cant view some of the ones towards the bottom
>> Anonymous
I have a lot of pictures like these that I got at a LAN but never knew who the hell took them, and they are no where near this big in size (unfortunately). Regardless, I've uploaded them for anyone who'd like to have them. They're quite neat, even if still small. And if anyone knows the photographer, I'd appreciate a name.
http://rapidshare.com/files/134979211/Photography.rar.html
>> Anonymous
OP what CAMERA did you use to take these!?!?
>> Anonymous
Thank you OP!
>> Anonymous
We need more of these kinds of things and/or rapidshits/megacraps of these kinds of photos as well. Thank you OP, these are the kinds of things I love.
>> 7eAL !!tllRoBnU1Sb
Saving these to be uploaded if OP is done.
>> Anonymous
Shit yeah I want to see em.
>> Anonymous
That abandoned mental institution sounds cool. Torrent for this set would be boss.
>> Anonymous
>>396526

HARDHATS? FUCK YEAH!
>> Anonymous
whoop-dee-fucking-doo...
>> OHNO !!cG9sxZfkA+v
>>396542
GREEN HERB FROM RESIDENT EVIL!
GET IT LOL.
>> Anonymous
>>397191

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of sage.
>> Anonymous
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Hey, I'm back. Still got plenty to show, I'm probably only about half way through (if that).

>>397109
Nikon D300. It's like pure awesome in camera form. Sadly the lens I was using (Sigma 10 - 20mm) has resulted in image quality nowhere near what the camera is capable of.

>>397035
I did take some multiple-exposure shots, but didn't really like how they came out. If you want to see them I'll upload them at the end.

>>397036
They all work fine for me. Try clearing your cache?
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I know I've shown countless shots of this area, but it's probably my favourite part of the whole complex.
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>> OHNO !!cG9sxZfkA+v
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>>397229
^^
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This one has a touch of hdr, but only to make it look more like my eye saw it rather than what the camera recorded.
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This is what it looked like down there. Good job we had a torch.
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>> Anonymous
So, so so much win.
>> Anonymous
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4chan keeps saying I have embedded archives in the image I was trying to post, and won't upload it. Never mind.
>> Anonymous
>>397311
clean my WHAT?! @#*($
>> Anonymous
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Yet more empty rooms...
>> Anonymous
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Now to the fire-wrecked part of the factory.

>>397314
cache?

May or may not work, I don't know. It was just a suggestion.
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>> Anonymous
I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT TILL I CAN AFFORD A D300
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>>397330
Credit is your friend.

I like it even better than my flatmate's D3 (though admittedly gives better image quality than the D300).
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Love the signs in this one.
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>> Anonymous
this thread wins so hard.
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This is the room where I dropped my lovely camera on the floor and smashed my expensive lens.
>> Anonymous
what the fuck are you guys getting so hard about its a fucking abandoned building holy fucking shit woop de doo.
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I'd love to have seen whatever was attached to these pipes.
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>>397371
This is your second attempt to troll the thread. You failed pretty hard the first time, and your second attempt wasn't much better.

Try harder next time.
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>> Anonymous
>>397375
wat? that was my first ever post on /hr/ if you must know. you guys are weird.
>> Anonymous
>>397375

Nevermind him, he is probably from that crappy /b/, and 12, interested in ICP, possibly even emo.

"waaah, /b/s down, i'm so ronery"
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>>397386
Yes we are.

I think I'll probably stop now.
>> Anonymous
This is pretty awesome stuff. Seriously, if you've got more, don't stop!
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>>397393
I could go on posting pics for ages, but the rest are mostly different views of what I've already shown.
>> Anonymous
>>397398
If you've got similar shots to this last one, I'd love to see them. Excellent reference/inspiration shots, at least for me.
>> Anonymous
>>397398
These photographs are gorgeous. What camera are you using?
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>>397401
I have some more from that room.

>>397403
D300
>> Anonymous
http://www.germanpussies.de.vu/
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>> Anonymous
dude awesome thread
>> Anonymous
>>397419
By far my favorite of this set
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>>397431
Really? I guess I'm not that great at picking out good photos then. I had no intention of posting that one until I was prompted to show more of that one room.
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>> Anonymous !orToskLjr6
a while back /hr/ was seriously dead...not much (if anything) being posted, and what was being posted was rather mediocre
so I migrated to /b/, which as you can imagine, changed my life. /b/ is down and I checked in on /hr/, my once favorite hangout that I feared was gone forever. Boy was I wrong. This thread makes me weep for joy. Thank you, photo-anon :')

by the way, don't all these remind you of Half Life 2? I wouldn't be surprised if the level designers visited some of these places for inspiration
>> Anonymous
>>397456
i thought the same thing about HL2. mabye this is pics from a HL3 demo
>> Anonymous
Oh yeah I remember the old thread. I haven't been on /hr/ since then, funny how this is the first thread I see when I come back!
>> Anonymous
503 201 8299
>> Anonymous
i loled call ^
>> Anonymous
use flickr and link it
>> Anonymous
are you going to megaupload or rapidshare them?
i have to take a shit now and hope that they are up by then

if not: save thread
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>>397456
It's rare to see appreciation at 4chan (not that I'm looking for any, but still), so thanks a lot.

I said I'd post a couple of HDR shots, so here we go. They're not very good, sadly.
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>>397436
I guess it's all about preference, but the pictures you posted later on in the thread are much better than the earlier ones.
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>> Anonymous
>>397475
Well in that case I guess it's good to be pushed.

I'm going to bed now, got work first thing in the morning.

Glad you liked them. Probably going back again in a couple of days, so I'll have more photos if anyone wants to see them.
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Just realised I never posted this one, which I liked.
>> Anonymous
>>397471
oh, im back from the shitter now. it seems that i have to lurk a bit the next days then
>> Anonymous
Could someone rapidshit this or something plox?
>> Anonymous
OP can you please make a torrent or rapidshare of these to make it easier to download them all? They're beautiful.
>> Anonymous
OP, this and your earlier works are amazing, keep up the good work!
>> Anonymousdb
>>396371
Nice shots I was going to /r/ a random place (to draw) GG, shame about your lens though.
>> Anonymous
Would OP mind if I used one or more of these shots in design work?
>> Anonymous
Fuck, I still have your original set. I love you OP.
>> Anonymous
I COULD PASTE A FIRST PERSON VIEW OF THE GRAVITY GUN ONTO EVERY GOD DAMN ONE OF THESE IMAGES AND IT WOULD FIT PERFECTLY.
>> Anonymous
Will someone plz rar and upload them somewhere?
>> Anonymous
>>397624
Yes, I would love to further mangle this environment with the Zero-Point Energy Manipulator.
>> Anonymous
uploading to Megaupload now, only 2 hours till it finishes :-\
>> Anonymous
>>397680
Thank you kindly anon!
>> Anonymous
>>396483
If you zoom in on the top right corner, it looks like there is a guy peeking over the beam at you. Gave me a weird feeling.
>> Anonymous
Thanks for the good pictures OP. I too would be interested in what some of those books are about. If you could have access to any high res scans of covers/bookplates that'd be awesome.
>> Anonymous
is MU almost done?
>> Anonymous
Bump.

WHERE IS THE MEGAUPLOAD OP? YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE A MEGAUPLOAD!
>> Anonymous
MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU?!?!?!??!?!
>> Anonymous
>>397497
it seems to me that the threads here on /hr lasts a little longer than /b/ ^^
>> Anonymous
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

This thread needs to stay here for like another 10 days. I'm on the last couple hundred mb of my monthly download quota and can't afford to be downloading all these awesome fucking pics.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
>> Anonymous
>>397789

sorry for the long wait, fell asleep while in the process

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=274T4GJO
>> Anonymous
wget -k -r --level=1http://orz.4chan.org/hr/res
/396371.html -erobots=off --wait 2 --include-directories=/hr/src
>> Anonymous
>>397914
seems legit

>>397915
403 wtf?
>> Anonymous
>>397914
nice
>> $teve
>>396453

This picture could have been so much better if that faggot hadn't tagged the roof.

>>397336

I love this one, the light shining in through the doors makes it look like you're walking into hell or something.
>> Anonymous
>>397476

This comes dangerously close to the over-saturated and gaudy style that colorful scenes can get sometimes with HDR, but despite you're saying you're not a fan of them, I think this one looks great. A good example of how HDR can bring out some of the details in an image that I might miss otherwise.

And I would like to agree with some other anons before me, OP: you have brought a tremendous breath of fresh air into a board that has been getting somewhat stale lately. Granted, the subject matter is helpful, but you still have a great eye for interesting photos. I thank you sincerely, and I will be very happy if you post more pictures from other locations at some point.
>> Anonymous
thanks a bunch, love abandoned places so much. great photos.
>> Anonymous
I don't mind making a torrent if you want, since I made one last time and it's still going.

There are about 450 photos, which is 8.5Gb at the moment, but they're raw files. If I convert them all to jpeg it should only be around 1 or 2 gig.

The thing is that it will take hours and hours and hours to convert 450 raw files to jpeg, but I'll start doing it and hopefully the torrent will be ready before I go to bed.

We've confirmed that we're going back again in the next couple of days, so I should have some more photos soon.
>> Anonymous
>>398080
And hopefully someone will be able to megaupload as much as possible because I can't torrent but I love these pictures and pictures like this.

Thanks OP.
>> Anonymous
>>397367
my fav pics are of this room, there's something about big old stuff that makes me like them.

btw, wiki says it closed in 2004, but a lot of the stuff in your photos looks like they've been abandoned by 10yrs or more(that boiler for example)
>> Anonymous
/p/ fag here.

Why don't you post them on /p/ and get flamed for shit photo's, no resizing and no EXIF?
>> Anonymous
lol i remember your first thread a long time ago
>> Anonymous
>>397918

it is legit, also not OP
>> Anonymous
>>398217
/p/recisely.
>> Anonymous
Hello, I am like you.
I also like, wait - wrong /b/oard.
SERIOUSLY, THOUGH - WIN.
EPIC WIN.
Your photos amaze me as always.
I WISH I could take photos like this.
You have motivated me to ask about financing the camera I looked at the other day.
I also take photographs of abandoned buildings, a bit of a side obsession of mine. Living in North Dakota, it's all abandoned - so subject matter is easy.
THANK YOU KINDLY, OP!!!!

Also, mu soon?
>> Anonymous
I would appreciate a torrent, as well as a link to the torrent of the prior batch that I missed. RAW, JPEG, either way. Thanks OP, and keep up the good work.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>398357

Seconding this, though i can't download torrents so i would appreciate a megaupload/rapidshare.
>> Anonymous
these are amazing!
i wish i lived near there so i could go and explore ;.;
>> Anonymous
>>396371

Thank you
>> Anonymous
Kick ass photos man, fucking awesome.
>> Anonymous
This is the old torrent.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1451363/5390529/

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1361420

Took me longer to convert the files than I expected, and I fell asleep. I'll have to be tonight that I start it since I have to run out to work now, just woken up.

Sorry but someone else is going to have to megupload what's been in this thread. My net connection is pretty awful.
>> Anonymous
bmup
>> Anonymous
Hej hej!

Saw you mention Piteå there for one of your shots. I still have a ton of relatives that live in that town. :) Nice shots btw!
>> Anonymous
bamp
>> megaupload Anonymous
>>398424

already did it for ya

>>397914

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=274T4GJO
>> Anonymous
>>398531
...but that is just the stuff from this thread, correct?
I already manually saved all that.
Where's the rest, RAW or JPEG?
>> Anonymous
Just keeping this thread bumped so I'll have a chance to download the pics.
>> Anonymous
>>398504
Nobody FUCKING cares.
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We're finally back, thank Christ.

The torrent has been up for a few days, here it is.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4333267

I went back yesterday and took 400 more photos, but they're not in the torrent, and I haven't really looked at them yet anyway.
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>> Anonymous
>>398744
Fancy uploading them anyway?

This thread has revived my urb-ex self.
Thanks, OP, brilliant pictures.
>> Anonymous
>>398744
could you possibly torrent the new 400 RAWs and all?

maybe even the RAWs from the other set as well?

:D
>> Anonymous
this thread deservers some serious archivation onf 4chanarchive.

also, dude, ur awesome, the ppl in the 28dayslater are all assholes who just sent low resolution pictures D=
>> Anonymous
>>399100
Good idea. Voted.
>> Anonymous
I love you OP.
>> Anonymous
>>399157
Vote or die, motherf*cker, vote or die!
>> Anonymous
>>398936
Scruffy seconds...