Showing posts with label grunge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grunge. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Old Volvos Never Die.


I discovered this old Volvo left to rot in a small village, Kampung Sungai Penchala, last week at the end of a jungle walk in Bukit Kiara and made a mental note to return to grab some HDR brackets. Old decaying buildings and cars just seem to scream out HDR to bring out the very best detail in the decay.
I returned to the same spot today and shot off some multiple brackets using a wide angle 16-35mm f/2.8L lens, taking sets of 7 brackets to fully capture the full dynamic range of the scene.
The final shot was post-processed using the PhotoMatix HDR plugin for Aperture then thrown over to Perfect Photo Suite from onOne Software where I added a few effects such as Tonal Contrast, Grunge Goddess and Spring before finishing off the image in the Focus module to add a slight blurring around the car to further draw the eye to the main subject.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Non HDR Grunge


This image may look a little like an HDR image bit it isn't. This is just the grungy look of this apartment block in New York. Some of the graffiti is very artistic and in some cases can brighten up an otherwise very gloomy building.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Belgian Graffiti

As you wander through the streets of the capital of the European Union, Brussels and just when you have almost had enough of beautiful ancient monuments, churches and grand palaces or the classic medieval, gothic style architecture you turn the corner and are brought back to reality with a splurge of graffiti grunge.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Guggenheim Grunge


The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something." The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.