Abandoned Chemical Refinery Berlin - Feedback welcome!

[Adventures With Nic]

This colossal refinery was built on the outskirts of east Berlin as a cement factory in 1899. Now this factory rests quietly, after coming to be abandoned exactly 100 years after it was first built.

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[hiflyer201]

Staggers the imagination thinking about all the people who have worked in those buildings and events that have taken place in the time since it was built.
Thanks for the terrific view! Some nice art work too

 

[Skybuyer]

So many great clips. Hard to believe it was done with a Mini. Your grading and editing was excellent. Can you share any thoughts, settings, editing ideas that you used that we might put in our bag-of-tricks? Outstanding work. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mel 08]

Great video
Am currently researching abandoned buildings here in the UK
There's not that many as they demolish them for new builds here.

Still.
Got a few irons in the fire

 

[Adventures With Nic]

Staggers the imagination thinking about all the people who have worked in those buildings and events that have taken place in the time since it was built.
Thanks for the terrific view! Some nice art work too

Thanks so much! It is pretty incredible how many abandoned places are dotted around!

So many great clips. Hard to believe it was done with a Mini. Your grading and editing was excellent. Can you share any thoughts, settings, editing ideas that you used that we might put in our bag-of-tricks? Outstanding work. Thanks for sharing.

Really appreciate the kind words! I think the first part I do is to make sure there is enough light and to point it (in general) away from the sun. I always use manual mode with the Mavic and probably have the exposure slightly on the darker side. Then in post I usually tint the shadows to be a bit bluer and the highlights to be more orange, creating that contrast. And then I bring out the actual exposure contrast a little bit also!

Great video
Am currently researching abandoned buildings here in the UK
There's not that many as they demolish them for new builds here.

Still.
Got a few irons in the fire

A lot of them are disappearing unfortunately. I am lucky I live in Berlin, and many of the relics from East Germany have been left to rot over the past 30 years! The ones directly within Berlin though are vanishing however..

 

[jagraphics]

Great video
Am currently researching abandoned buildings here in the UK
There's not that many as they demolish them for new builds here.

Still. Got a few irons in the fire

Fiar Gate 52.9220939,-1.4877338 the old railway building Between south Street and Great Norther Road. You can't get in yourself (no floors and what there are have collapsed) but a Drone..... I could not see into the main halls and platform areas as the windows were about 10 feet above ground level BTW go with a friend as lookout as people with nowhere else to go sometimes meet there.

 

[peterc4]

I have visited a few abandoned buildings over the years take a look may give you some ideas. See my book aswell

urbex explained urbex exploring beauty in decay urban exploration wittingham asylum peter costello photography

urbex explained urbex exploring beauty in decay urban exploration wittingham asylum peter costello photography

www.petercostellophotography.com

Abandoned UK by peter costello | Blurb Books UK

Hi, my name is Peter Costello. This book portrays my trips around the UK exploring abandoned and neglected buidings from Hospitals to Asylums Industrial and Leisure, from Inverness to Plymouth.

www.blurb.co.uk

 

[Mel 08]

I have visited a few abandoned buildings over the years take a look may give you some ideas. See my book aswell

https://www.petercostellophotography.com/urbex-urbanexploration

Abandoned UK by peter costello | Blurb Books UK

Hi, my name is Peter Costello. This book portrays my trips around the UK exploring abandoned and neglected buidings from Hospitals to Asylums Industrial and Leisure, from Inverness to Plymouth.

www.blurb.co.uk

Awsome
Will have a good look when time allows
Off the top of your head is there any close ish to me

Cheers Mel

 

[Adventures With Nic]

I have visited a few abandoned buildings over the years take a look may give you some ideas. See my book aswell

urbex explained urbex exploring beauty in decay urban exploration wittingham asylum peter costello photography

urbex explained urbex exploring beauty in decay urban exploration wittingham asylum peter costello photography

www.petercostellophotography.com

Abandoned UK by peter costello | Blurb Books UK

Hi, my name is Peter Costello. This book portrays my trips around the UK exploring abandoned and neglected buidings from Hospitals to Asylums Industrial and Leisure, from Inverness to Plymouth.

www.blurb.co.uk

Thanks for this! I've bookmarked it for when I hopefully can get back to the UK one day!

 

[Skybuyer]

Thanks so much! It is pretty incredible how many abandoned places are dotted around!

Really appreciate the kind words! I think the first part I do is to make sure there is enough light and to point it (in general) away from the sun. I always use manual mode with the Mavic and probably have the exposure slightly on the darker side. Then in post I usually tint the shadows to be a bit bluer and the highlights to be more orange, creating that contrast. And then I bring out the actual exposure contrast a little bit also.


A lot of them are disappearing unfortunately. I am lucky I live in Berlin, and many of the relics from East Germany have been left to rot over the past 30 years! The ones directly within Berlin though are vanishing however..

"I always use manual mode with the Mavic and probably have the exposure slightly on the darker side. Then in post I usually tint the shadows to be a bit bluer and the highlights to be more orange, creating that contrast."

Excllent tips. I'm just at the point in learning video editing that I know enough to be able to do that (learning DaVinci Resolve). I hadn't thought of creating color contrast by boosting opposite colors in shadows and highlights. I think you just taught me something very valuable to have in my bag of tricks. I'm working on a personal project right now that I'll have to look at more closely to see where something like that might be appropriate.

Finding interesting areas to shoot I think is the biggest challenge. I live in an area where just about everything is restricted- even if illegally restricted... and always prone to misinterpretation by some authority figure.

 

[Adventures With Nic]

"I always use manual mode with the Mavic and probably have the exposure slightly on the darker side. Then in post I usually tint the shadows to be a bit bluer and the highlights to be more orange, creating that contrast."

Excllent tips. I'm just at the point in learning video editing that I know enough to be able to do that (learning DaVinci Resolve). I hadn't thought of creating color contrast by boosting opposite colors in shadows and highlights. I think you just taught me something very valuable to have in my bag of tricks. I'm working on a personal project right now that I'll have to look at more closely to see where something like that might be appropriate.

Finding interesting areas to shoot I think is the biggest challenge. I live in an area where just about everything is restricted- even if illegally restricted... and always prone to misinterpretation by some authority figure.

Thinking about contrast is super important. And not just light contrast but also in colour, focus and positioning

Though a good location for sure helps haha! Good luck!

 

[Skybuyer]

Thinking about contrast is super important. And not just light contrast but also in colour, focus and positioning

Though a good location for sure helps haha! Good luck!

It's amazing how far imaging has come in the last 20 years. I've been a professional photographer since the 80's (yeah, with actual film and film/paper retouching), starting in digital in 1996 (on a Quantel Paint box... powered by a roomful of computers with data on tape), so I'm no stranger to color correction and I'm consistently blown away by all the new things to learn, all the extra technology at our fingertips.

As a tangential side note, I was watching a movie the other day, from 2008 or so I think, and it opened with a drone shot of the Chicago River. I hadn't paid attention to this stuff before, but it was immediately evident. But the thing that I recognized too was how incredibly unstable the shot was in this major motion picture. If someone had shot the same footage today and put it in that movie they would have been fired for using a toy drone. And gimbals? When did they become mainstream? Sorry for the digression.

 

[Adventures With Nic]

It's amazing how far imaging has come in the last 20 years. I've been a professional photographer since the 80's (yeah, with actual film and film/paper retouching), starting in digital in 1996 (on a Quantel Paint box... powered by a roomful of computers with data on tape), so I'm no stranger to color correction and I'm consistently blown away by all the new things to learn, all the extra technology at our fingertips.

As a tangential side note, I was watching a movie the other day, from 2008 or so I think, and it opened with a drone shot of the Chicago River. I hadn't paid attention to this stuff before, but it was immediately evident. But the thing that I recognized too was how incredibly unstable the shot was in this major motion picture. If someone had shot the same footage today and put it in that movie they would have been fired for using a toy drone. And gimbals? When did they become mainstream? Sorry for the digression.

I'll have to give that a rewatch to see! The quality achieved from such a small camera and lens, whether it's a drone or an iPhone is seriously impressive! I wish I actually had more opportunity when I was younger to get into film, but I have some friends in Berlin who I take some analog photos with now