“Charles E. Houseman”

I noticed this home as I was leaving the old textile mill and thought about turning around and shooting the home from the street. As I got back I decided it was worth pulling in to see if anyone was home. As you can see the owner had apparently been collecting figurines for quite some time. They were all over the yard and the front porch, I knocked on the front porch and out came Charles. I asked if I could photograph his home, he said yes, I asked him if he would stand on the steps for a portrait, he also said yes. He was very proud of his collection. After I shot his photo I began to do some HDRs of his house, as I finished he came out to ask when they would be in the paper and I told him I worked for my own personal work. I told him I would mail him some prints and got his address. His prints will be in the mail Monday.

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“Textile Remains”

“Textile Remains” was captured near Athens in Watkinsville, GA. while just cruising around looking for any photo opportunity. I actually saw a water tower in the distance and drove that way until I found it and under it was the mill. I was able to park in the old parking lot and just walk right in. That is usually the way it happens, but don’t hold me to that.

The image is a 7 shot HDR bracketed by one stop, processed in Photomatix and then tweaked in Lightroom and then tweaked for detail in Topaz Adjust.

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“Textile Light”

This image was captured in an old abandoned textile mill in Watkinsville, GA near Athens. I was just driving around looking for photo opportunities and happened upon this place. This was the second building I entered and by far the darkest. I had to just hope for the framing as I had forgotten my flashlight. The ISO had to be set at 1600 and then my long exposure was still 1 minute. The image turned out wonderful, the light coming through the holes in the ceiling was amazing. The image got my standard workflow with just a little Topaz Adjust 5 added mainly for detail.

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