Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
Having been inspired by Kendall Anderson I have decided to start shooting industrial and former industrial sites. My first choice didn't wind up being quite as impressive as anything Kendall has photographed. However, there just aren't that many decommissioned industrial sites around the San Francisco Bay Area. I decided to start with the cement reprocessing plant on top of the capped off landfill near my soon to be old office at Network Appliance Inc.. For almost 6 years I have wondered exactly what I would find up there. You can occasionally see large hauling trucks up there and a front loader driving around. I also did it to get some photos of the area around NetApp. I knew I couldn't get onto the roof of NetApp very easily so I choose the dump as a raised shooting point.
The images in my gallery are generally unprocessed. The images in flickr have been processed. The flickr photset of the Reprocessing station is here. I also shot into the garbage transfer station next to the dump. Because I knew I wasn't supposed to be where I was I didn't get a very good angle on the transfer station. I didn't really want to get caught. That is also why these shots are all handheld. If I had just chilled I really wanted to stop all my shots down and get better color and more depth of field. I may go back and do just that. The other problem I had was the sun. Even with the hood on my 24-70 I was still getting flare from the sun.
While I was there I shot some landscape shots that I stitched together to form wide panoramic arcs. The day was much less clear then the day before when I planned my activities. I was kind of bummed about that. The pictures came out hazier then I would have liked. It would have helped if I moved from a UV filter to a polarizer but I was too busy worrying about getting caught.
Posted by pqbon at May 1, 2005 4:11 PM