• http://www.allanthinks.com Allan

    The decayed insulation looks like asbestos. 8O

  • http://casscomerford.wordpress.com Cass

    Hi — I trolled over from Dooce one day and your photos have inspired me since. I love gritty stuff like this — do you mind if i ask some questions? Did you edit the lighting on this photo or was this posted as you shot it? When you go to a place like that how many shots do you take?

  • http://thelightersideofgrowingup.typepad.com Ashley

    indeed, this texture is incredible. great shot.

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @Cass, on this shot, the only work I did was a bit of tonal work (curves, levels, color balance/temperature, etc.). I tend to shoot as many shots as I have time or storage. It just depends. I tend to work quickly in light like this, but I try to walk around a bit before shooting. Then I’ll walk around looking through the lens to see if my compositional sense is correct. I try, but don’t always succeed to take several angles of a shot that I’m interested in because I might get a great result from changing it up from my original shot.

    When the light is good, it’s hard for me to work slowly, so I try to shoot a lot of coverage. When I shot this, I had maybe 15 minutes of good light left before it disappeared.

  • Leann

    Looks more like an alligator with a pacifier in it’s mouth to me… :-)

    I love your photos, keep up the good work!

  • suzieq

    I also love taking texture photos…people miss such wonderful sights every day because they fail to see them..sort of like hearing but not listening.

  • Lesley

    I’m so glad I clicked on it and got the full sized version.

  • http://casscomerford.wordpress.com Cass

    Thanks for responding to my question! So last question.…well for today. What’s your favorite time of day to shoot so the light is just right? I prefer dawn to dusk but I think the light is a different color on the East coast which may be just plain ridiculous.