Urban Exploration Thread

[Gabanuka]

Why is every picture on this thread Filtered to hell and back?

OT: We have a few in my area, one was full of porn and the other looked perfect for a horribly lame music video

 

[SEXTON HALE]

Best place Ive ever checked out was an abandoned juvenile detention facility across the city from me.
That place has been out of commision for about thirty years but its in mint condition.
Everything in its place just covered in dust no holes in the walls broken windows nothing.
It was the crazy hard to get into aswell up a wall down a drain pipe across the roof and down a skylight .To get through the skylight we had to open it upon a bend back a steel grate and drop down about twelve feet.Getting out was a piece a piss aswell we had to grab tables from all over the place and stack them up to get back out the skylight and once that was done we had to climb back down again.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I went in an old train yard shed thing in my town once, it was really dark and creepy. Lots of peeling walls and shit.

There..

That is an awesome picture. There's something very unreal about the lighting, like it's from a particularly colorful videogame, not real life.

That's HDR. You take multiple identical pictures, but at different exposure levels (one that's too bright to get detail in shadows, one that's normal and one that's too dark to get detail in highlights) and when you combine them in an image editing program, instead of getting a very neutral picture, you can go overboard with some settings to get that surreal/dramatic look.

Very cool stuff. [http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/]

So what your saying is it looks like a videogame because it's a picture of the real world with HDR lighting. That is awesome.

 

[Surpheal]

I've heard of people doing it before this thread, but I've never really gone exploring around where I live.

However if I felt like doing so, all that I have to do is drive about an hour into Detroit and go for a look around. That is barring running across any possible squatters, junkies, dealers, or anything like that. Also taking in the wildlife, the birds, the bugs, the feral dogs that roam around the outskirts of the city.

 

[teqrevisited]

I remember going on a bike ride with a few mates when we were about 8 or 9 and finding this old abandoned warehouse-type thing in the woods across the road from a new estate that was being built. It was sat next to a small stone aqueduct with a rusted up water wheel sitting half in it.

We went inside the warehouse and the floor was just a thin metal grating, underneath which was sheer darkness, possibly a huge pit that was once full of water (You could hear it faintly if you stopped to listen). There were a couple of loading cranes hanging from the ceiling but the fusebox was smashed to bits and even if it wasn't I doubt they would've worked. There was also a square cut hole in the floor that we dropped a few stones into: we didn't hear them hit anything. We left it at that. With all the rust and the general state that place was in we could've ended up finding out what was really down that pit.

 

[MammothBlade]

It sounds very fun, I'd like to sometime. Respirators are advisable incase you accidentally come across asbestos or other toxins. Crowbars, gloves, and torches too.

 

[farscythe]

these things are everywhere in the forests round where i live not sure if that counts as urban exploration tho.

to date i havent found one that was inhabited by leaf people...but i know they're out there....

You might have Ewoks living in that area. Watch your damn back, man.

hadnt thought of ewoks yet.... that explains a lot... ( lil bastards set traps for me and till now i was blaming the leaf people for those)

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I'd like to do some more, but unfortunately in Wales there isn't a lot..