So another shot that pretty much leads directly on from the last. Dave and myself had, on the say so of FatPete, taken for a stroll off the beaten track , and spent the Friday of my visit up North; Reccying (if thats a word) the location of tonights post. Its an old (being dismantled by all accounts) solid fuel power station (geotag here later). The scene was very ‘Chernobyl’esque’ and reminded me of post cold war Russia. In fact if you search through FatPetes’ Blog (see previous entry for link), you will probably see some rather dark (in subject matter ) self portraits where he’s wearing a Gasmask, and its almost the perfect prop to this post-apocolyptic scene.

The image itself is a 3 frame HDR, and I’ve popped a few curves in there for good measure to adjust the sky, and the foreground contrast. The Sun was unblown by the HDR, but it lacked any colour or any perceptable colour, it was a very strange light that day anyway. So (please please excuse the overuse) or abuse of the LENSFLARE filter in PS but I couldn’t resist it for this scene.

It also had the feel of a scene from a computer game…. Another few shots of this location will be posted over the coming days. Its a little OTT for my liking but what the hell, it kinda fitted the subject….. csj

UPDATE: OK I toned the sky down a tad, Dave was right it was too heavy, I think it still is, and it was one of those “if you stare at something for too long you can’t see it” problems…. Thanks for the headsup