Today’s Bacon | Bethany McGarry
by Joe
This is the picture of a wall of polaroids inside an old abandoned house out in the middle of nowhere located in Southern California. It was started by a group of people that began throwing old polaroids inside the old house. Now the polaroids are slightly maintained and nailed onto walls by another member. There is a flickr group whose subject is the house.
This is an HDR of one of the walls. I loved the way the one photo was crooked, so I took a couple of shots (with my film camera), had them developed and put on CD, and used PhotomatixPro 6 to turn them into and HDR. A lot more work than a digital camera, but I still get the same effect. All my photos are taken with film so far. I love it, but I can’t wait to get my digital camera.
Awesome find Bethany! You can see more of Bethany’s work on her website and you can friend her on twitter too! By the way, she only shoots film.
Tags: Film, HDR, Nikon, Nikon N60, Photomatix Pro 6
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 am
Unfortunately I’ve been told a couple days ago that this place is now off limits per the owners… They demanded that they come and get their polaroids and leave the property for good. It’s a shame b/c this was a real treasure in the middle of the desert. Stupid owners.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
I think I found the culprit of this shutdown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luxtronik/3445584307/