Laenec abandoned Hospital

Rodion Kovenkin from Mogilev, Belarus

Very good shot!
It would be perfect if you play with shadow/highlight and curves.

6 Oct 2006 1:03am

Srinivas Koduri from Visakhapatnam, India

I agree with rodion .. some areas are too washed out and some were dark. to balance them u would need to play around with curves and levels . It might be good choice for b&w too.. Very Good composition....

6 Oct 2006 1:14am

Holly Wood from Paris, France

In fact, I worked on contrasts, but too much obviously. Thanks for your advises, i really need some, you'll see that on many of my shots!

6 Oct 2006 2:02am

Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium

Where do people find these abandoned places?! I find on Flickr there are a lot of really cool abandoned places. They are always very creepy but create excellent photos. I like this one - another technique you can use is a dodge/burn layer in photoshop. (Assuming you are using photoshop) you can go to "Create New Layer" and set blend mode to Overlay and check the box about "50% grey". This makes a grey layer above the photo but you cannot detect it with your eye until you draw on it. If you draw with a black paint brush it will make the area of the photo darker and a white paintbrush makes it lighter.

Make sure to set the Opacity of the brush to a small number like 15% or the effect will be too extreme and unrealistic. You can paint over the same spot many times to increase the effect. I can try to find a web link about this if my short description does not make sense.

6 Oct 2006 3:39am

Geoff Stickle from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

There are so many photo ops in those places. Nice find!

6 Oct 2006 1:26pm

Aleksander Obinski from Tokyo, Japan

Holly, very intriguing photo. Excellent shot ( as usually!)

6 Oct 2006 11:36pm

Fernando D. Rubio from Madrid, Spain

excellent photo!

29 Oct 2006 2:01pm

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