Last night, 
I've posted about the waterworks and the daylight urbex recce here: @fastchrisuk/urban-exploration-around-redmires-waterworks-sheffield
It's very useful to visit these abandoned places in advance and more importantly in daylight. The route down a slippy banking and over a dry stone wall isn't easy. If I had visited this place in the dark for the first time, it would have been all the more dangerous.
Once inside the main "hall" of the waterworks, I gave Rob the "ten cent" tour and we set up tripods and lighting gear. This is what I got:
All shot in one exposure as usual, these photos are not photo manipulations, they're all created in camera.
Scanners
The wooden door frame surviving in this derelict building made a great frame for this pan and tilt effect I like to use. Last night was cold and the mist created the background seperation needed for this kind of shot.
Spinny swirly thing
This technique using a camera rotation device I've done before and I'm not sure how best to describe it. It involves shooting a central figure then turning the camera 45 degrees and walking towards camera with a light on the end of a cord. And then rotating the camera every 90 degrees thereafter.
Is the world ready for more than one
I always pack the fractal filter these days....
Reject?
Here I used the fractal filter again and the result was unexpected. I was hoping to see fractal red strips all the way around the silhouette but they only appeared at the top. Probably needed to rotate the filter slightly and lower the backlight strength.
Scale
Stood a bit further back in frame really emphasises the scale of this place.
Simple is sometimes best
I find if I post complicated to make lightpainting shots on social media, the viewers seem to like the simpler images more. It's wierd. I'd like to be appreciated for the skills and complexity but that just doesn't happen. So here's one I prepared earlier which was extremely easy to make. It's bound to be popular!
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