Dereliction - Need to pick three out of these

Rob200sx

Rob200sx

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Hi folks, I mostly shoot cars as some here may know so it with a heavy heart that I post some pics of a non-automotive variety :)

I've got a Camera Club competition coming up so it's been a challenge to find the time to get out and get some non-automotive related photos, however the theme is Dereliction & Decay, so here's what I took yesterday and I need to use three of these, which ones do you think?

Thanks!

#1
Derelict_1406.jpg


#2
Derelict_1412.jpg


#3
Derelict_1427.jpg


#4
Derelict_1430.jpg


#5
Derelict_1440.jpg


#6
Derelict_1453.jpg


#7
Derelict_1459.jpg


#8
Derelict_1473.jpg


#9
Derelict_1477.jpg


#10
Derelict_1481.jpg


#11
Derelict_1492.jpg


#12
Derelict_1512.jpg


#13
Derelict_1516.jpg


#14
Derelict_1523.jpg


#15
Derelict_1525.jpg
 
I like 3, 5 and 11. Assuming your camera club members know your automotive bias 7 may be worth considering? I'm surprised you didn't find a wreck of a car somewhere :D
 
I quite like aspects of #7. Wide angles capture what the place is now, but something like that shows a bit of back story and adds to the dereliction. It maybe doesn't have enough context for a single photo entry though.
 
1, 6 and 8. with 2 being nice as well.

I really like 8, with the bright red leaves and green wall. The tree branch really makes it IMO.

Where is it BTW? It looks almost like an WW2 prisoner of war camp, although I assume it's actually a factory?
 
#8

You've got the decay of the natural and man-made in one shot. The composition and light aren't anything to write home about, but the colours are bold.

For the indoor shots you could have tried underexposing by a stop of two and seeing what you could do with the light streaming in through the windows.
 
Rojin said:
I like 3, 5 and 11. Assuming your camera club members know your automotive bias 7 may be worth considering? I'm surprised you didn't find a wreck of a car somewhere :D
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I did look, there was an old truck stored there, from the 50s I'd say but it was surrounded by farm machinery, I couldn't get the appropriate shot :)

Amp34 said:
Where is it BTW? It looks almost like an WW2 prisoner of war camp, although I assume it's actually a factory?
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Bang on the money there! Brigstock, it's an old PoW camp

theheyes said:
For the indoor shots you could have tried underexposing by a stop of two and seeing what you could do with the light streaming in through the windows.
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I thought about that and I did take a series of exposures so that I could experiment a bit. I'd like to say that I could have kicked up a load of dust and let it work naturally, except by that point the temp had plummeted (quite literally in a matter of minutes) and this was at the end of the day, I could barely feel my fingers so I just wanted to get the shot and get back to the warmth of the car!


Thanks all, I can eliminate a good portion of these now! :)
 
Number 1 for me has a really great derelict and depressing feeling to it with the clouds in shot. Also has a nice composition which should go down well with the judges as it's got lots of things it's easy to award points on.

Good luck.
 
1, 14 & 15 in order of preference.

Personally I would do a 5:7 crop on the later taking out that window on the right, the lit part of blue drum and some of the foreground.
 
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