Industry

[Sean Galbraith]

Anyone else out there enjoy shooting photos of industry?







All with my Crown Graphic + Ektar 127 on Provia

[IanG]

It's something I've specialised in since the mid 1980's although most of my images are Industrial landscapes.

This was made in the last year of sugar manufacture before the Kidderminster Sugar Beet factory was shut & demolished.





Both images are of the beet juice extractor, Wist 45DX and 90mm Grandagon, Tmax 100 & Xtol, Polywarmtone/ID-78/ Selenium toned.

Ian

[Allen in Montreal]

I use to shoot a lot of abandon industrial scenes, but there just aren't as many around the city anymore. At the time, they were one of my favorite subjects.


Fuel inlet valves in an old boiler room.
(terrible scan on a rock bottom basic flatbed, sorry)

[urs0polar]

It's something I've specialised in since the mid 1980's although most of my images are Industrial landscapes.

This was made in the last year of sugar manufacture before the Kidderminster Sugar Beet factory was shut & demolished.

Both images are of the beet juice extractor, Wist 45DX and 90mm Grandagon, Tmax 100 & Xtol, Polywarmtone/ID-78/ Selenium toned.

Ian

These images are incredible! They even look oily. Very cool.

[Jan Pedersen]

Nice work, i like the industrial scenes and look forward to see much more.

Sean, what color film are you using? I like those colors.

[Sean Galbraith]

Nice work, i like the industrial scenes and look forward to see much more.

Sean, what color film are you using? I like those colors.

Thanks, Jan. Provia 100F (quickloads)

[Sanjay Sen]

Very nice! Please keep them coming.

I have a question: how do you folks get access to these sites, the abandoned ones? Do you seek permission? The ones I have seen, and those that have appealed to me, all have "No Trespassing" signs posted conspicuously.

[Sean Galbraith]

Very nice! Please keep them coming.

I have a question: how do you folks get access to these sites, the abandoned ones? Do you seek permission? The ones I have seen, and those that have appealed to me, all have "No Trespassing" signs posted conspicuously.

I operate on the principle that it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. And it is even easier to run quickly to avoid the question altogether.

[IanG]

The last one I photographed had been vandalised so access was easy, I would have been able to get permission anyway, it happened to be the former Raistrick & Foster foundry that built the first steam locomotive to run in the US.

Often sites are open despite the warning signs and as they are usually due for demolition no-one is bothered it's more a safety issue.

Ian

[Ash]

I did a series of images on my SWC of abandoned places, (called Things Falling Apart on my website).

I enjoy industrial settings, but I don't want to get shell-shocked by it all.

I shoulda shot them on large format, but I prefer the swc.


Almost every location I shot in my series had very questionable access methods. I have a clean criminal record still.