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Kid Stuffed: 10 More Eerie Abandoned Orphanages

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

Little orphans any? Not so much these days thanks to fostering and improved economies, the result being many former orphanages have been left eerily abandoned.

While many orphanages were built from scratch back in the day, others (mainly in the UK) occupied vacant country homes sold by latter-day aristocrats laid low by falling incomes and rising tax rates. Such was the case of the now-abandoned Bramham Children’s Home in West Yorkshire, England.

Dating from 1806, the building was owned by the Ramsden family until 1947 when they sold the rambling pile to the West Riding County Council Children’s Department for the princely sum of £8,000 (roughly $ 10,000 at the time)… about £350,000 ($ 435,000) in today’s money. In its new incarnation as the Bramham Children’s Home, the orphanage only housed 35 children in 1970 cared for by about 16 staff. Not too shabby! By the early 1980s the orphanage had closed yet the building still stands, as photo-documented by Imgur user LeeRielly in August of 2016.

Freinetschool Kasteel De Wip

The Freinetschool Kasteel De Wip, located in Wezemaal, Belgium operated for well over a century: from 1880 through 2008 to be exact. At the time of its closing due to dangerous structural decay, the building housed 54 live-in students divided into 3 preschool classes and 6 primary school classes.

For the past 8-odd years, this exquisite little “castle” has continued to deteriorate with camera-toting explorers such as urbex.nl having to deal with rotten floors, the state of which worsened between visits in 2011 and 2014.

Silverlands

Silverlands, located in Chertsey, Surry, UK can trace its roots back to 1814 when a local brewer invested his prodigious profits in a grand country home. In 1938, The Actor’s Orphanage backed by none other than Noël Coward took over the home but by 1958 the cost of urgent structural repairs had made the orphanage economically non-viable.

In the late 1990s, local governmental authorities floated a proposal to re-establish Silverlands as a live-in clinic for pedophiles. Local residents opposed to the plan mounted a candlelight vigil (presumably they were fresh out of torches and pitchforks) and got the council to change their minds. Photographers Stacey Louise and Tim Barber visited the still-magnificent remains of Silverlands in early 2015, returning with a visual record of its former opulence.

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November 28, 2016
Five reasons to buy the Sony RX100 V (and four reasons to reconsider)

Introduction

The Sony RX100 V is the world’s most advanced pocketable camera with a 1″-type sensor, and it’s also the most expensive. With a spec sheet that is unmatched in its segment (and in some cases, in the entire market), the RX100 V is going to be looked at by a great many folks, and is indeed going to be a great camera for a wide variety of photographers. But there are also photographers for whom the RX100 V is probably not your best choice – so we’ve put together some reasons you might want to pick one up, and also reasons you might want to save those pennies for something else. Let’s dive in.

Reason to buy: You need to capture very fast things

The 24 fps burst rate lets you capture just the right moment. Photo by Rishi Sanyal

You might be interested in an RX100 V if you photograph or record very fast-moving things, primarily because of the camera’s ridiculous 24 fps burst speed for stills and 960 fps mode for slow-motion video. But because of the zoom range, you’ll have to be fairly close to the action – our own Barney Britton has been saying the V is the world’s best crash cam. Or maybe you’re a watermelon-exploding enthusiast. Okay, or maybe you want to catch just the right moment of your kid’s break dancing class. Whatever it is, kick the AF into continuous and ‘Wide’ area, the burst rate into 24 fps, and motor away.

Reason to reconsider: Postage-stamp-sized batteries

CIPA-rated to 220 shots, the battery life is, generally speaking, a weak point on the RX100 V.

The Sony RX100 V soldiers on with the same NP-BX1 battery pack that the very first RX100 used, and with the massive increases in processing power and capability that Sony has shoehorned into the body, the claimed battery life is a third less than the original model. What’s more, the RX100 V continues Sony’s tradition of slow battery discharge if the battery is left in the camera, so if you’re only looking to use the camera occasionally, you may find you’re all ready to capture the moment, but the camera isn’t ready for anything but a charge.

And if the RX100 V is already proving difficult to fit into your pocket (I can’t be the only guy wearing skinnier-than-normal jeans these days), you might be loathe to carry another battery or two as well.

Reason to buy: You need a B video cam that can run and gun or be built up as needed

You could conceivably use the HDMI out on the RX100 V to build a rig up, or just use it as a run-and-gun pocket video cam.

The RX100 V is probably not the best choice out there for a primary video cam for most people (though this is not always going to be true), but with 4K video, focus peaking, zebra, log gamma and oversampled 4K, the only thing you’ll be missing is better audio – and there’s always an external solution for that.

Don’t discount that you can also do clean HDMI out, and then combined with said external audio solution, have a pretty powerful package, even if it takes some work to get there.

Reason to reconsider: You have big hands

If Sasquatch was after a camera, it wouldn’t likely be the RX100-series (a big, double-grip DSLR might be a better bet). The RX100 V comes, out of the box, with no grip, a slippery casing, and buttons smaller than the sensors of point and shoots of yester-decade. Although a touchscreen isn’t always the answer, we feel that being able to utilize such a big block of space on the rear of the camera as a control point is something Sony will have to do sooner or later to improve usability as the features keep coming.

Reason to buy: You want the best point-and-shoot there is

The RX100 V’s 315 on-sensor phase-detect AF points cover 65% of the frame.

With AF-C in wide mode and rapid continuous shooting in Raw + JPEG, the only thing between you and something you want to photograph is the RX100 V’s startup time, which isn’t too bad (unless you’ve just changed the battery).

Sony’s told us that plenty of folks buying their RX100 cameras are actually mid-to-high end DSLR owners. And while there’s an argument that that demographic may want maximum control all the time, there’s also something to be said for leaving the big camera at home and just focusing on a moment in front of you as it unfolds instead of prepping settings and always watching, and always re-prepping, and repeat.

Reason to reconsider: You just don’t need it

Stock up on storage if you plan on using those 24 fps bursts.

I will confess – the allure of 24 fps burst shooting while at the Sony launch event for the RX100 V was somewhat tempered by the 128GB memory card I used, as well as the total picture count at the end of the night – near 3,000. That ended up being more than I would shoot with any other camera, simply because I could. One thing’s for sure – there’s no arguing that 24 fps will help you catch just the right moment in the middle of whatever is happening in front of you. But there’s also no arguing that it will just be overkill for many people, and many people’s hard drives. Even dropping the burst rate to 10 fps ended up being enough for me.

Reason to buy: You want the best image quality in the smallest pocketable package

You already have a cell phone with you all the time anyway, and it probably takes decent pictures. Well, the RX100 V will at least fit into a coat pocket (or cargo pants…those are still around, right?) and take photos that will blow any smartphone out of the water.

True, ‘digital bokeh’ simulations are catching on, and will actually offer more blur artificially than the RX100 V can manage optically. But they still can’t match the dynamic range, sharpness and sophisticated JPEG performance in low light that the RX100 V offers. Digital bokeh or not, physics is still physics, and the 1″-type sensor will collect way more total light than any current cell phone.

(There’s also one smaller 1″-type sensor camera on the market, the Canon G9 X, which is capable of good stills quality – but with a necessarily slower lens and less processing power to keep the whole package more compact.)

Reason to reconsider: You just need more zoom

The 24-70mm equivalent zoom lens on the RX100 V may be quite bright, but it may be too short for many people. If you’re hoping to shoot your kids’ soccer matches from the sidelines, there are way better options out there (the Panasonic ZS/TZ100 comes to mind).

Sure, the 24-70mm focal length is an absolute staple for professional wedding and press photographers, but you also often see those very same photographers carrying another huge camera with a 70-200mm equivalent zoom, just to cover absolutely everything. You can get by for a great many things with the RX100 V, but if you’re planning on getting one single camera to do it all, from travel photography to portraits to landscapes, there is probably a better option out there for you.

Reason to buy: You absolutely must have a viewfinder

All RX100 models since the Mark III have had a built-in, pop-up electronic viewfinder.

The RX100 V (and Mark III/IV) are the only truly pocketable 1″-type sensor compact cameras with a decent built-in viewfinder. Panasonic’s ZS100/TZ100 is also a fairly compact camera, but its field-sequential EVF is pretty lackluster. If you do lots of shooting in bright light outdoors, or just find that framing your masterpiece with fingerprint smudges and facial oils overlaying it is unacceptable, the RX100 V’s pop-up viewfinder is worth a peek.

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November 27, 2016
Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

Ground Operation is a conceptually simple earthwork: an incision made in a grassy landscape is pealed back then stitched back together, much like an open wound after an injury or surgery.

French artist Estelle Chrétien sliced open the ground then wrapped electrical cables through it like shoelaces, either in the process of being tied or becoming undone (a mystery left for the observer to unravel, as it were). Her use of cabling is also very intentional, meant to raise questions about what we put into the Earth and how we use it — a surfacing of the secret infrastructure that lurks below.

Similar techniques, themes and materials can be found in other works by the same artist, who has wrapped hay bales in crocheted covers and put boots on trees.

“While in Portugal, I learned how to crochet, and I had this piece of blue agricultural baler twine in a box and the idea of [making a hay bale wrap] came to me,” she says. “When I went back to France, I made it and put it in a field just before farmers stored their bales. I liked working in the middle of a barley field, but most of the work was made at home, so I decided to work outside with my hands more often after that.”

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November 27, 2016

The good, the bad and the ugly of aerial photography – part 3: equipment

In previous articles I’ve discussed the advantages of aerial photography and shooting from a helicopter as opposed to shooting from a light plane. But are there any special considerations with regard to equipment when shooting from the air?

Since we’ve already established that it’s the superior choice (at least in my opinion), let’s concentrate on the helicopter first. An open door gives the photographer a vast range of angle options, and selecting the equipment can be difficult at first. You can find many good compositions with ultra-wide angles all the way to telephoto lenses.

From my personal experience, the majority of my shots were taken with the wider end of a 24-70mm lens, i.e. If you only take one camera body (and don’t plan to switch lenses on the helicopter), take either a 24-70 or an ultra-wide such as a 16-35. Remember that an ultra-wide might come in handy at times, but when a need for longer focal length comes, it might lack the reach.

Naturally, lens selection also depends on the subject: if you know you’ll be shooting grand landscapes, use a wider focal length. If you’re interested in capturing detail or if you’re limited in your ability to get close to the subject, use a longer lens.

From high up, you don’t always need an ultra-wide lens to capture grand landscapes. This image was shot at 46mm.

Sussusvlei, Namibia

I highly recommend taking 2 camera bodies to an aerial shoot. If you do that, you can use another lens without switching it in midair, which can be complicated, not to mention extremely dangerous in case it goes flying out of the open door or window. The extra lens can be an ultra-wide but I personally prefer a telephoto. With a longer lens you can really delve into the fine detail of your subject, which might be hidden when shooting from the ground, and capture unique perspectives and interesting compositions.

My favorite telephoto lens is the Canon 70-300mm F4-5.6L IS, and I found myself shooting on the long end of the zoom quite a bit. The main advantage for me is that even though you’re flying hundreds of meters above the landscape, you can really get close and intimate with it when using a long lens.

When shooting from a plane, my recommendation is a 24-70 and a telephoto. Anything wider will capture parts of the plane, such as a wing or an engine, most of the time, which renders it almost useless.

At 176mm focal length, the Telephoto lens gave me a chance to capture the details on the erupting lava. Flying any closer was impossible since the air above the lava flow was so warm it made the helicopter tremble.

Holuhraun, Iceland

Once on the helicopter, you will most likely fasten the camera straps to a dedicated part in the seat belt. While this keeps the equipment from falling from the heli, you might finds straps getting tangled after going back and forth between camera bodies, which could in turn cause you to miss good shots. Try to be aware of this, and always make sure the straps are disentangled when time comes to shoot. The entanglement problem is also the reason that while it is possible to take 3 bodies, it’s not recommended.

Space in a light plane can be tight, so often you’ll only use one body. I would use a 24-70mm in that case.

Greenland

Forget about using square filters, or anything else that can fly off and hit one of the rotors. It might feel calm inside, but try to take your hand out of the cabin and you’ll feel the enormous wind strength out there. There’s no reason to risk your life, and with today’s high-DR cameras you can compensate for global contrast when post processing the image. A polarizer is also a bad idea, as it can substantially darken the image and require a slower shutter speed or higher ISO.

Even high global contrast can be balanced with today’s high-DR sensors.
The Lofoten Islands,

Arctic Norway

One last thing to mention regarding gear is clothing. It can get cold up there, and while I was able to wear a t-shirt when shooting aerials in Namibia, in the Arctic I needed full thermal gear – the most important items were the hat and gloves. There were times my hands were totally devoid of all sensation and I had to stop shooting due to the cold. Be ready for this and try to use gloves that protect your hands from cold winds while allowing you to operate the camera.

In the next article in this series, I’ll talk about technique and parameters for aerial photography.

Erez Marom is a professional nature photographer, photography guide and traveler based in Israel. You can follow Erez’s work on Instagram, Facebook and 500px, and subscribe to his mailing list for updates.

If you’d like to experience and shoot some of the most fascinating landscapes on earth with Erez as your guide, you’re welcome to take a look at his unique photography workshops around the world:

Land of Ice – Southern Iceland
Winter Paradise – Northern Iceland
Northern Spirits – The Lofoten Islands
Giants of the Andes and Fitz Roy Hiking Annex – Patagonia
Tales of Arctic Nights – Greenland
Saga of the Seas and The Far Reaches Annex – The Faroe Islands
Desert Storm – Namibia

Selected Articles by Erez Marom:

Parallelism in Landscape Photography
Behind the Shot: Dark Matter
Mountain Magic: Shooting in the Lofoten Islands
Behind the Shot: Nautilus
Behind the Shot: Lost in Space
Behind the Shot: Spot the Shark
Quick Look: The Art of the Unforeground
Whatever it Doesn’t Take
Winds of Change: Shooting changing landscapes
On the Importance of Naming Images

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November 26, 2016

The Red Line: Moody Neon Light Installations in Remote Places

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Installation & Sound. ]

Red neon lights arranged in geometric shapes or casting eerie illumination onto darkened trees almost seem like a natural phenomenon in the vein of the aurora borealis, captured by photographers who manage to be in the right place at the right time. A glow coming from a slit in a snowy landscape or just under the surface of the sea hints at the presence of life forms just out of sight.

‘La Linea Roja’ by photographer Nicolas RIVALS carries on a longstanding tradition of introducing artificial lights to natural spaces for high-impact temporary art installations, but adds a little something extra in the form of a strikingly limited color palette, moody skies, black lines of tree silhouettes and surprisingly natural-looking compositions.

The Paris-based photographer installed the lights in various landscapes while on a trip through Spain, capturing the effect using long-exposure photographs.

Here’s what RIVALS has to say about the series:

“A red line woven over a journey through Spain, to connect Man with nature. A red line to fix a moment of poetry. Unreal scenes which existed for a night to disappear in the morning. An installation left as a proposition to the natural world. A luminous harmony between will and chance. Between tribute and sacrilege. Between the beautiful and the range. An aesthetic research on shapes engaging in dialogue with an asymmetrical nature.”

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November 26, 2016
Chronos high-speed camera hits crowdfunding goal in record time

The Chronos 1.4 affordable high-speed camera that created some buzz on the internet about a month ago has now made it onto Kickstarter and reached its funding goal of approximately $ 48,000 in only 5 hours. The Chronos 1.4 can shoot high-speed video with 1,957 fps at its full resolution of 1280 × 1024 pixels, and up to 21,600 fps at lower resolutions.

The Chronos captures its footage on a 8.45 x 6.76mm sensor with a 6.6um pixel pitch. A global shutter means that leaning verticals won’t be an issue and the electronic shutter achieves a fastest speed of 1/500,000 sec. The sensitivity can be adjusted between ISO 320-5120 when shooting in color and 740-11840 in monochrome mode. The camera takes C and CS-mount video lenses and comes with a 5″ 800×480 touchscreen, an SD-card slot, audio IO connector, built-in microphone and HDMI out. Power is supplied by a standard Nikon camera battery.

If you want to support the project and reserve a Chronos 1.4, you can do so by pledging approximately $ 3,000, a fraction of the cost of other pro-level high-speed cameras, on the Chronos Kickstarter page. Shipping of the first units is planned for March 2017. You can find more information on the Chronos website, some sample footage can be seen in the video below.

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November 26, 2016
Sony Xperia XZ camera review
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The Xperia XZ is the top-of-the-line model in Sony’s Xperia X series and comes with some of the latest technologies implemented in its camera module. A Sony IMX300 1/2.3” 23MP image sensor with on-sensor phase detection is accompanied by a laser that measures distance to its subject to improve AF speed and accuracy in low light. Also on board is an RGBC-IR sensor that measures the color values of a scene in order to fine-tune the white balance system. The hybrid AF-system is also predictive and can track subjects in motion.

The Sony G lens comes with a 24mm equivalent focal length and an F2.0 aperture. In video mode, the camera can record footage in 4K resolution and the Xperia XZ is also the first device on which Sony has implemented 5-axis electronic video stabilization. At the front there is a 13MP 1/3″ sensor with F2.0 aperture and 1080p video – specifications that would have been worthy of a main camera not too long ago.

Processor and other components match the high-end characteristics of the camera and all the technology is wrapped up in an 8.1mm thin metal body that is water and dust tight (IP65/68). The Sony is also one of only a few smartphones to come with a dedicated camera button, making it an interesting option for any photography-oriented user.

Key Photographic / Video Specifications
- Sony IMX300 1/2.3” 23MP BSI CMOS sensor
- 24mm equivalent focal length
- F2.0 aperture
- AF with on-sensor phase detection and laser-assistance
- Subject tracking
- RGBC-IR sensor
- Manual control over shooting parameters
- 4K video at 30 fps
- 5-axis electronic video stabilization
- 13MP front camera, F2.0, 22mm equivalent focal length
Other Specifications
- 5.2-inch 1080p IPS screen
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset
- 3GB RAM
- 32/64GB storage
- MicroSD support
- 2,900mAh battery
- Environmental protection (IP65/68)
- Fingerprint reader
DPReview smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance, and image quality.

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November 25, 2016
Throwback Thursday: Casio QV-4000
Long before there was an app for that, your camera had a scene mode for that.

Cameras and smartphones have gotten pretty good at detecting what kind of scene you’re trying to photograph and optimizing your settings for the best shot, and they’re only getting smarter. But fifteen years ago when we reviewed the Casio QV-4000 such technologies didn’t exist.

Instead, you got ‘Best Shot Modes,’ a collection of exposure modes designed to help you match the right camera settings to the scene you were shooting. There were 5 pre-installed on the QV-4000, but you could install a hundred more by simply loading them from the CD-ROM that came with the camera onto your Compact Flash card.

So with more than a hundred modes to choose from, you can imagine how specific they get. In no particular order, here are some of my favorites:
- Photo of a toadstool
- Portrait in a field of flowers
- Photo at a hotel
- Photo of a mossy wood
You can see them all here. And even though they seem a little funny now, Casio was only trying to answer a question we still haven’t quite cracked: how do you help the average consumer take better photos? Automatic scene detection and technology like Google’s HDR+ solve some problems, but I know I still see plenty of backlit portraits and blurry ‘night at the bar’ photos in my Facebook feed.

The answer is starting to look different than a hundred different user-selectable scene modes, but the problem is sure the same.

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November 25, 2016
Origami Spoon: Flat-Folding Kitchen Tool Adjusts to Measure Multiple Sizes

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A clever domestic design to eliminate ungainly collections of measuring spoons and cups, Polygons is an ingenious cooking multi-tool that measures different amounts on demand and packs flat when not in use.

The key to the device is its flexibility, and not just in terms of measuring. Its creators claim it can flex up to 100,000 times without breaking thanks to TPR-based hinges.

Each tool (a teaspoon and tablespoon variant) has four different measuring configurations and can also be used to spread things in its flat formation.

The creators claim it works equally well with runny and viscous liquids as well as powders, then wash easily to avoid stains and smells.

If the material science side of the project holds it could have a lot more applications as well for everyday-use objects that need to bend without extraneous hinging mechanisms (which add bulk to a product as well as a point of failure and cracks for dirt and debris).

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November 25, 2016
Photo gifts for every budget: 2016 Holiday Gift Guides

It’s not easy shopping for a photographer. We’re notoriously picky, our gear is confusingly named and the difference between something we like and something we don’t can come down to what seem like trivial details. Trust us, if picking camera equipment was easy, we’d be out of work.

But before you give up and just get a gift card, take a look through our carefully selected holiday gift suggestions, grouped by price range, for the photographer in your life. Don’t worry – we won’t tell anyone if that photographer is actually you.

See our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: $ 100 and under

See our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: $ 100-500

See our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: $ 500 and up

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November 24, 2016