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2012-10-09 14:39:19 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 42 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Prison Stares" 
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The York County Prison makes use of a center stair case and 4 cell blocks on each floor. You can get a real sense of what it must of been like to move around in this building, if you had the opportunity to as an inmate. This shade of yellow and green dominate throughout the building and are an interesting color choice. In this environment I find these colors to be rather freaky for a prison. Then again, maybe it’s the peeling paint and lighting that are giving me that vibe!

(Please note the York County Prison is under patrol and is posted No Trespassing. I normally do not disclose location information, but in this case the property is For Sale! This is an attempt to bring awareness to the sale of this property, requested by the owner!)

#Tuesdecay   #York   #PA  #Penn... more »

2012-10-09 14:37:26 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Hendrix"
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I recently had the opportunity to visit the Old York County Prison in Pennsylvania, with permission from the owner. He and his family are interested in selling the property and because of it’s history, it deserves to be photographed! One person who is helping achieve a sale is Blake Stough. Blake is a York County Preservationist, photographer and runs PreservingYork.com. Information researched by Blake and the owner along with photographs from my partner in crime Rob Dietrich and the rest of us, will be put together on a blog/website as the prisons home base!

Now let’s talk about the image. For me, this was one of the highlights of the shoot. Why? Why not! This is a preserved jail cell with prisoner art from the 1970′s! It’s Jimi Hendrix man! I had to run a 4 minute long exposurebecause... more »

2012-10-05 16:26:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This would be awesome to win.  Free +SmugMug Pro for Life from +PhotoWhoa - Daily Deals for Photographers Enter Here! 

2012-09-30 13:51:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Tom Anderson Thanks for the recent add to your circles. The new myspace is looking interesting, thoughts? Keep up the amazing work!

2012-09-27 14:02:38 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 64 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Morning Wood" 
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There are some benefits to waking up early on the east coast, catching a sunrise once in a while! There is only one downfall to waking up this early on vacation. When the shoot is over, my wife and 2 kids are well rested and ready to drag me along for the rest of the day! I took this shot using my B+W ND110. It’s a 10 Stop Neutral Density filter and without it, I’d be lost! It’s the second most important filter I own next to my UV protective filter. It’s my go to filter for landscape photography. Even if I decide to bracket, this filter allows for great long exposure HDR. However, I’m more inclined to utilize this filter for one single long exposure. I prefer to exposure for around 4 minutes. This usually gives me the best LE effect and depending on the light, I’ll adjust mycamera setti... more »

2012-09-26 23:40:07 (16 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Bedside" 
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It’s very rare that I will push my ISO to 400 when bracketing for HDR. However this is the max ISO I’ve ever utilized. No noise reduction was applied to this image and for good reason. Why would you want to soften all that texture? ISO 400 can provide you with enough sensor power to keep you exposure times low, if your pressed for time. A lot of people think HDR produces noise. Well, it can certainly add noise but it’s improper brackets and not enough of them that will produce noise in your HDRs. Did I mention how much I love tone-mapping in Lightroom 4.1 using 32-bit files? This is because of the minimal noise I get in my merged images. When processing grungy scenes like this, noise can add texture. Just make sure it’s the right noise your utilizing. I can’t recommend shooting at this ISOfor clean ... more »

2012-09-26 15:29:37 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 51 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Bedside" 
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It’s very rare that I will push my ISO to 400 when bracketing for HDR. However this is the max ISO I’ve ever utilized. No noise reduction was applied to this image and for good reason. Why would you want to soften all that texture? ISO 400 can provide you with enough sensor power to keep you exposure times low, if your pressed for time. A lot of people think HDR produces noise. Well, it can certainly add noise but it’s improper brackets and not enough of them that will produce noise in your HDRs. Did I mention how much I love tone-mapping in Lightroom 4.1 using 32-bit files? This is because of the minimal noise I get in my merged images. When processing grungy scenes like this, noise can add texture. Just make sure it’s the right noise your utilizing. I can’t recommend shooting at this ISOfor clean ... more »

2012-09-25 17:53:53 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Eternal Sleep" 
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This image I finished almost 2 months ago but never posted it! After going through my catalog just now, I realized it was just sitting there. Sleeping! Seeing this image reminded me again what a great shoot I had visiting this abandoned New Jersey State Hospital. Almost every shot I took that day is an image I would consider posting. Maybe it’s my developing eye that helped me to achieve this? I know for sure it’s one of the first times this has happened to me after a shoot! Do you struggle while on a shoot? Do you take too many images and realize later you wasted time taking those shots? I think this is something we all struggle with as photographers. Sometimes less is more!

#Tuesdecay  w/ +Ian Ference
#hdr   #urbex   #ue  

2012-09-24 21:51:18 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Real Estate" 
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www.scottfrederickphotoblog.com/2012/09/24/real-estate/

Wow, has it been almost a month since I posted on my blog? Crazy! Just to fill you in, I’ve been busy actually making money with my photography. This leaves me little to no time at the moment to work on personal images. I’ve been fortunate enough to be work with an amazing agent named Eric Axelson at Kurfiss Sotheby's International Realty. He saw my fine art work and thought it would be worth the investment to hire me for Architectural Real Estate Photography. This home is located at 538 Moreland Road Huntingdon Valley, PA.. My goal here was to render an HDR image as close to natural as possible and tone mapping in Lightroom 4.1 using the new Photomatix 32 bit Floating Point TIFF plugin helped me achieve this as a first step in the process.I’ve... more »

2012-09-24 15:20:49 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Real Estate" 
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www.scottfrederickphotoblog.com/2012/09/24/real-estate/

Wow, has it been almost a month since I posted on my blog? Crazy! Just to fill you in, I’ve been busy actually making money with my photography. This leaves me little to no time at the moment to work on personal images. I’ve been fortunate enough to be work with an amazing agent named Eric Axelson at Kurfiss Sotheby's International Realty. He saw my fine art work and thought it would be worth the investment to hire me for Architectural Real Estate Photography. This home is located at 538 Moreland Road Huntingdon Valley, PA.. My goal here was to render an HDR image as close to natural as possible and tone mapping in Lightroom 4.1 using the new Photomatix 32 bit Floating Point TIFF plugin helped me achieve this as a first step in the process.I’ve... more »

2012-08-29 14:19:59 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 54 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Abandoned Theater (Backstage)" 
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The backstage area of this abandoned theater was speaking to me. The way the sunlight was shining in created a no brainer kind of shot! Just point up and shoot! Minus the lens flare, which is something I try to avoid 99% of the time, I’m really happy with the way I captured the light rays! I really hope this location is restored and legally it has to, but that doesn’t mean the current owners won’t let it go to waste. They have no intentions on restoration. They are interested in selling it though, any takers? 

#hdr   #urbex   #ue   #urbanexploration  

2012-08-27 15:20:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 42 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Skylight" 
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The roof in this building on the property of an abandoned hospital in New Jersey in beyond disrepair. With all the rain I’m seeing outside today, I can only wonder what this place looks like after a monsoon! The day we visited, we had dry conditions and I really love the way the light was fusing in! I decided to frame this off center. I find too ofter when photographers shoot a hallway they always compose head on. Something I try to avoid if possible. As always, vanishing points are a great addition to any composition. The way the light and dark areas of this scene play off each other, really bring the whole image together for me! Even though I process a lot of my work as HDR, I don’t like a lot of details in all the areas. Shadows bring mystery to an image and if you take them away, your leftwith... more »

2012-08-23 14:32:48 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 30 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Without You I'm Dust" 
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Without someone to love and care for you, what does your future hold? What is your value, without someone to share yourself with? All things are dependable on resources. Without these vital resources we are all just dust blowing in the wind. The wind will carry you but not support you all the time. Sometimes you rise and sometimes you fall, sometimes you fly and sometimes you crawl. Without the wind your dust becomes motionless. Without motion, we decay and become part of the earth that consumes us! Selfishness will get you nowhere. You have to give in order to receive and the ones that have given yet been left to rot, are the true victims of the selfish act!

#hdr   #urbex   #ue   #urbanexploration
#decay   #abandoned  

2012-08-23 00:32:55 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Gathering" 
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Gathering your thoughts can be a tough obstacle to accomplish. This room reminds me of a place that people would use to do just that! Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. All for the better of course! ;) Things are coming to a crossroad for me mentally. It’s really time to buckle down and step up swinging with full force. I’m not being specific here for one main reason, which I’ve learned in my old age of 33! ;) I don’t really like to speak of things until they happen. This is a rule I live by in my personal life and now it’s becoming more apparent in my artistic endeavors as well. I’m looking forward to putting the finishing touches on my thoughts and applying them to actions!

As always I forget to post on #tuesdecay ! Actually this week I have an excuse, I was inNYC! ;) 
... more »

2012-08-22 13:36:46 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 46 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Gathering" 
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Gathering your thoughts can be a tough obstacle to accomplish. This room reminds me of a place that people would use to do just that! Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. All for the better of course! ;) Things are coming to a crossroad for me mentally. It’s really time to buckle down and step up swinging with full force. I’m not being specific here for one main reason, which I’ve learned in my old age of 33! ;) I don’t really like to speak of things until they happen. This is a rule I live by in my personal life and now it’s becoming more apparent in my artistic endeavors as well. I’m looking forward to putting the finishing touches on my thoughts and applying them to actions!

As always I forget to post on #tuesdecay ! Actually this week I have an excuse, I was inNYC! ;) 
... more »

2012-08-12 11:27:09 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Penthouse Sunset" 
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This week, I was hired to photography a $3.25 million dollar bi-level penthouse w/ private top floor lap pool in Philadelphia.  Sometime over the next week or so, I’ll unveil the interior as an album. Since I don’t always have the chance to shoot the city from this vantage point, I was excited to fire off some brackets during the last moments of sunset. Gotta love the blue hour! 

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

#HDR   #Philadelphia   #skyline   #Philly   #rooftop  

2012-08-10 17:45:10 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 37 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Penthouse Sunset" 
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This week, I was hired to photography a $3.25 million dollar bi-level penthouse w/ private top floor lap pool in Philadelphia.  Sometime over the next week or so, I’ll unveil the interior as an album. Since I don’t always have the chance to shoot the city from this vantage point, I was excited to fire off some brackets during the last moments of sunset. Gotta love the blue hour! 

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

#HDR   #Philadelphia   #skyline   #Philly   #rooftop  

2012-08-06 15:05:29 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 41 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Intersection 2" 
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What a difference 16 months can make. I originally posted this image back in April 2011, click here! http://bit.ly/dUsbwC 

Last night while cleaning up and organizing my library files, I stumbled back on these brackets. I decided to re-process it quickly to see how natural I could make it look. I utilized Lightroom 4.1 to tone-map the 32bit Floating Point Tiff file save from Photomatix Pro 4. Which I’ve been doing on most of my latest HDR’s.

Anyway I wanted to share a quick comparison as you can see how some of my older HDR’s look really bad! ;)

#hdr   #urbex   #ue   #urbanexploration   #philly  

2012-08-03 13:49:56 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Crusty Pipe" 
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Longport Point in New Jersey is a great location for landscape photography. Especially long exposure black and white images. The day I captured this shot, there was an amazing fog rolling over the area during the afternoon hours. This created a diffused horizon line, which I exaggerated here using a high key technique. I can’t stress the importance of patience when working on these types of images as the masking can be long and tedious. Not to mention a workout on your carpal tunnel!I worked with a zoom setting of 600% and a brush size of 3 pixels for most of the pipe masking. Once this was done, I was able to separate the pipeline from the rest of the image and work on those areas separately.

I missed yesterday's
#longexposurethursday   #LE   #bwfineartle   #BW  #Finea... more »

2012-08-02 01:04:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Chairs" 
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While exploring this room for the second time, I realized I had images from the first visit unprocessed on my hard drive back home. With that in mind, I decided to plop my tripod down and experiment with some additional frames. I was attracted to this yellow/green chair in the foreground but at the same time, the sunlight was shining directly into the window in the background. This was making it very difficult to capture an image without lens flare! I’m not sure how well this image will resonate with you. But there’s something about the chair in the foreground that I really like. With that said, I could of shot this with a wider aperture bringing more focus to the chair. I decided not to because the front of my lens was really close to the chair. Even at f/13, it still diffuses the background justenou... more »

2012-08-01 15:28:11 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 30 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Chairs" 
www.scottfrederickphotoblog.com/2012/08/01/chairs/

While exploring this room for the second time, I realized I had images from the first visit unprocessed on my hard drive back home. With that in mind, I decided to plop my tripod down and experiment with some additional frames. I was attracted to this yellow/green chair in the foreground but at the same time, the sunlight was shining directly into the window in the background. This was making it very difficult to capture an image without lens flare! I’m not sure how well this image will resonate with you. But there’s something about the chair in the foreground that I really like. With that said, I could of shot this with a wider aperture bringing more focus to the chair. I decided not to because the front of my lens was really close to the chair. Even at f/13, it still diffuses the background justenou... more »

2012-07-26 00:39:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

There's More Than One Way Off the Island -- Vallejo, CA

Join us LIVE tonight at 8PM PST for Photo Talk Plus!!!!!

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Tonight's +Photo Talk Plus is going to be AWESOME!!!! We have none other than the pioneer and godfather of abandoned night photography himself +Troy Paiva as our special guest.  

Troy has been making amazing light painted night photographs for over two decades.  Along the way he's published three books and published thousands of photgraphs online, including many at his website http://lostamerica.com  Troy's documented the out of the way, abandoned California desert in ways that few others will ever come close to.  He regularly holds workshops on his well regarded technique.

Troy has long been a big influence of mine and it's hisdistinc... more »

2012-07-25 19:02:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Tonight @ 11PM EST. via +Vidcast Network, I will be a guest panelist on the +Photo Talk Plus show episode 32 w/ +Thomas Hawk & +Lotus Carroll! Tonight's Special Guest is +Troy Paiva 

Panelists: +Keith Barrett, +Amy Heiden, +Ian Ference, +Sly Vegas, +Ricardo Lagos & +Scott Frederick 

http://vidcastnetwork.com/

2012-07-24 14:01:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Message and a bottle..."
http://bit.ly/PSi1Z3

A quick post today from a recent urbex shoot at an abandoned hospital. I will continue to share more images from this location as a series…. This is in preparation for an upcoming project I’m starting very soon, so stay tuned!

#Tuesdecay   #urbex   #hdr   #ue   #urbanexploration   #bw   #blackandwhite  

2012-07-24 01:03:54 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Captivity" 
http://bit.ly/OkGcOz

Today’s shot is from yesterday’s exploration, which was a success in every way. When shooting in these environments, it takes a solid plan and a solid group of explorers to achieve a peaceful mission! Some people visit these abandoned locations for the thrill of being there. Honestly, if it wasn’t for photography I don’t know how eager I’d be to enter… I’m very passionate about creating this body of work, not to mention I enjoy flipping the switch during post production. But, how could I do this differently? This image represents a new way to merge multiple brackets. The new Lightroom 4.1 handles 32-bit Float Point Tiff files saved from Photomatix Pro perfectly. Give it a try!

#hdr   #urbex   #decay   #abandoned   #hospital  Tomorrow's #Tuesdecay  :)

2012-07-23 14:48:08 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Captivity" 
http://bit.ly/OkGcOz

Today’s shot is from yesterday’s exploration, which was a success in every way. When shooting in these environments, it takes a solid plan and a solid group of explorers to achieve a peaceful mission! Some people visit these abandoned locations for the thrill of being there. Honestly, if it wasn’t for photography I don’t know how eager I’d be to enter… I’m very passionate about creating this body of work, not to mention I enjoy flipping the switch during post production. But, how could I do this differently? This image represents a new way to merge multiple brackets. The new Lightroom 4.1 handles 32-bit Float Point Tiff files saved from Photomatix Pro perfectly. Give it a try!

#hdr   #urbex   #decay   #abandoned   #hospital  Tomorrow's #Tuesdecay  :)

2012-07-18 14:35:16 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 51 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "Deeply Shallow" 
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#tuesdecay   #ue   #urbex   #hdr   #abandoned   #hospital   #urbanexploration  

2012-07-18 00:07:15 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

PhotoBlog Entry: "The Earth Awaits" 
www.scottfrederickphotoblog.com/2012/07/17/the-earth-awaits/

*Buy This Print* http://bit.ly/Mv4WcB

Every once in a while when I set out to capture long exposure images in black and white, I end up loving the color version more! This is an example of that kind of image. What attracts me are the rich tones reflecting such a warm light. The black and white conversion is quite nice as well. It will be an alternative option for any art buying clients that want to go monochrome! Speaking of buying art, most of my images can be purchased on my main website in various sizes and printing mediums. It would be an honor to have my work hanging in your space. In fact, I’m happy to of sold 2 metal prints today to a client of mine! Cheers!

#LongExposure   #LE   #Sunrise    #Landscape   #OCNJ