Night Photography

This was a very risky bit of “Urbex(About)” at an undisclosed location in Hampshire, UK. It took us about 2 minutes to work out how to get in to this place. And it is suposed to be protected under the official secrets act! This was a very quick explore as we would of probably been arrested and chucked in a cell if we were rumbled.

Anyway, on with the pictures!

Looks pretty secure doesn’t it? Funnily enough, this was taken from the inside!

Where we were.

Note the bullet holes in the sign

Lets hope this post doesn’t get me arrested or deported. You can find the full set here.

This tunnel is a bit of a goldmine for night photography. This may only be a tunnel but there is so much to look at and take pictures of. It changes every time I go there. It appears to be a hangout for the local yobs.

This is yet another quick update so I will crack on with showing you the images:

My favorite of this set

There were plenty of these around there.

Really bad light writing

And some more!

The rest can be seen here.

I don’t usually take pictures of poeple or things that move at night. Mainly because it isn’t easy to do. This shoot was organised by someone on the Portsmouth At Night flickr group. Paul. He kindly supplied us all with the lighting required to take some pictures! It was brilliant, the only real set back was my lens. Since buying the lens and only really taking night photos I have given away and sold off all my other lenses. This means sometimes the distortion is too much and can ruin an image. So I think a new lens is on the cars very soon.

Here are some of my favorites of the night:

Best of the night

An example of the distortion problem

Nice shadows

There are plenty more that can be found here. More updates on the way.

My initial idea with this blog was to document every single photography “outing” but of course that got neglected. So, time for a catch up!

Fireworks at King George V Playing Fields - November 2007

I didn’t take a great deal of photos here and I’m not particularly happy with them! So, instead of posting pictures I will post a link.

The Spud Farm

This was an unexpected find really, we went there to take picture of the exterior but we found an easy entrance to the farm building its self which appeared to be some sort of vehicle maintenance building.

Inside were some really nice old buses. Click here to see full set.

Studio Shoot At SCC

This was a photo shoot that me and a friend went to which was hosted by the Solent Camera Club. The full set can be found here.

There are more updates coming that will have their own posts. Keep on the lookout and subscribe to my RSS Feed while you are here!

This post is REALLY late, but I am trying to catch up now. So, back in November 2007(Yes that really is last year) me and the usual night photographers headed down to the Tipner area of Portsmouth. This is where the Pounds scrap yard is located. Inside the scrap yard in clear view from the M275 is where the two tanks that reside there. They appear to be WWII tank amphibious type craft, although I don’t know the history or uses of them.

After about 20 minutes of scoping out the area and looking for good access points, we headed back and grabbed the cameras from the car which was parked in a nearby car park (more on this later). We did the usual climbing over the fence thing where clothes get ripped and equipment gets damaged. Naturally we made a b-line for the tanks as that is what we went there for! Here are some of the pictures I took:

The cockpit

And again..

See the full set in a slideshow

After and hour or so of shooting, we decided it was a good idea to head off (it was about 2AM at this point) so we spent a good 15 minutes trying to get out, after one of us getting covered in slimy mud everything went OK. After more walking we got back to the car, packed all the equipment away. Everything seemed OK, but then we tried to drive out of the car park, only to find the gate had been well and truly locked. “F**K!!”

Next we all got out the car and started evaluating our options. We could of stayed in the car park until morning, break down the gate or remove fences. We really did not want to do any of this. So we sat there for a while twiddling our thumbs. Many swear words later, we started having a good look around. After heading into some overgrown land which was adjacent to the car park with no barriers inbetween (Apart from some big ass thorn/bramble bushes!) we noticed at the end there was a gate, it was slightly open!

20 minutes go by, and the whole area that was covered in bramble bushes was now almost flat! some serious force on the gate between three of us opened it (just) and we proceeded out of the area. I would love to see the person’s face who saw the car in there and locked it when they returned the next day. They were probably expecting to see us sat in the car. OWNED.

I can’t remember much more than that, I think I took more pictures after that. When I find them, I will post them to flickr, which is causing me problems at the moment. They don’t seem to want my money for a pro account. So a good 2000 images are hidden from public view. I will post about this soon.