First of all, thanks everyone for your comments!
Hi Edu.
3 is my favorite. Like it a lot.
Also one of the very few times I'd like to see a colored version.
Unfortunately, I did the color to black and white conversion first, and then added a lot of editing after that... I am afraid that I cannon produce a color version that matches the black and white posted.
I also like the third one. And the second might look better with some of the bottom/left cropped.
I tried to follow your suggestion, but then the towers move too much towards the center of the picture, and I wanted them on the far right, unbalancing the frame; I could not get something I liked, but I am open to proposals.
Powerful images, Eduardo.
The second looks perfect to me, and the third is almost frightening in its message. I think it's a great use of black/white imagery.
There's an old, abandoned nightclub on a road near the Hospìtal de Muro in Mallorca; it's huge, covered in graffiti, has broken rafters with things hanging down that waft in the wind. I watched it and the pigeons for hours when my wife and I were in that hospital there on different occasions, and it has tempted me many times. But I never quite summoned the nerve to break and enter. There was always something evil about it. Then just this week or last, the papers printed a story of three people who were living in it; two called the police to state that the third had fallen down some stairs, but forensics said no, it's murder. Just as well I didn't have the nerve to go in there. All the menace of the Blair Witch Project... I think some places just quietly scream No!
Rob C
Abandoned buildings are very attractive to me, too; not only photographically, but also (industry-)archaeologically and anthropologically. But the coward inside me does not dare to enter anywhere interesting. This building, on the other hand, is not abandoned enough, as some parts of the plant are still being used (at least, someone must be paying the bills for the lights that are still on).
Edu, You're in my favorite territory. Next to street I love abandoned structures most, and this is some structure. What hits me hardest is your control of the mid-tones. You and Seamus Finn seem really to have mastered the zone system. Bravo!
I am turning all shades of red now...
I also like #3 the best. The composition is a little loose, IMO, but it stands out from the others because you're going in tighter on the buildings, making the image more immediate and a little abstract. The others are more aloof and less interesting to me.
Also, I'd be curious how you shot these. It looks to me like you used a red filter to get your interesting tonalities.
Thanks for the tip on composition, perhaps I can arrange another visit to the building.
All images where shot without filters (or perhaps I used a polarizer, cannot remember now). I did a first conversion from color to black and white, then added one layer with each of the RGB components, all of them in darken-only mode, and tweaked the curves separately for each layer; there is a bit of "HDR-effect" too, but just to enhance the textures.
