Abandoned room with over grown plantlife

Here are a few perparatory studies of a the possible look for the abandoned room.

 The cracked windows are a way in for the plantlife.

 The light beams are highly resticted from entering the room, giving this hazy effect.

 I've added some weeds just infront of the camera to achieve a sense of being in this room.

Here I've played around with the lighting to get different time periods of the day.

My opinion on the extreme plantlife is maybe I should cut it back a bit. What I want from the plants is a sense of timescale of how long the room has been in this state, but they also imply theres a lot of plantlife already in the area. If the area was Hashima Island for example where there isnt much visable plantlife, how do I achieve the vast timescale. This I will look into. I do like the plants blocking the lit and giving a haze but this much seems to be more jungle than an uninhabbitated city.

Thumbnails - Using photographic perspective lines and trying to improve photoshop skills

My plan here was to get a few thumbnails created of a different area than the last thumbnails, as well as practicing more with photoshop. The reason being is my skill with the software are nowhere need good enough to create a realistic matte painting for my final image; practice will always make perfect. I used the photographs also as colour palettes, as more of these thumbnails are created I will not use photographs, and use more of my imagination and education of the images. 

 In these images I finally got to play around with the light, the beams of light are strong but also have that hazy look that you often get when in a church.

Research - Decaying Kent House

The following images were found at http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=56527. By the description on this website this house is located by the M20. This house instantly struck me because of the amount of plantlife surrounding the building. What was different about this place is that the planlife itself is half dead, as if the house and nature are battling for a place for the land. In this post there are some amazing pictures from inside the house, my favourite images are the two with the windows; its noticable to see the limited light coming through them restricted by the dirt on the window.



Abandoned and nature reclaims Research 2 - Rougham Hall Suffork

The Following stunning images were taken from this website http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=56476. The crumbling decay of this building has given it a somewhat scary atmosphere. Once again the over growth of plantlife show clearly that nature is taking back what humans have left behind. Some of these images of the outside building are taken from behind some trees, I really like this positioning because its gives a sense of the plant life is now attacking the audience. I thought this could be an awesome idea to keep in mine when I create the place I want to do; wherever that place may be. If for example its in one of the crumbling rooms, maybe theres plenty of dust over the sceen to enhance the environment that the viewer is know in.

 The insides of this building truely is a deathtrap, the strong beams that are slowing deteriorating, are the only foundation left holding up the ceiling. The floor has also caved in showing downstairs ceiling beam aswel. I like how this image can take me from one room to the outside via the windows and broken ceiling and also take me travelling in to the room underneath. It gives the eye plenty to look at.



New thumbnails.

Already I'm having more fun doing these thumbnails, than I was on the last lot. I've had a main focus on the room in one of the images I posted earlier, I still like the sense of being the only one around and thats my room. I also liked the perspective and the sections of the image that gives the foreground, middle ground and background. My mind is a lot clearer with this room and this area, I really like the battered building, but just because the camera in the room, doesn't mean these can't be used. I would have these buldings outside of the window, quite close up to give sense of crowded space and also keep that destroyed look. I will be experimenting closely on the lighting, as of the moment I'm not sure weather night time or day would be best. I think night time will be too much, but theres always a chance to play around with moonlight; whereas the day time gives a sense of safety of light with an experimentation of colour contrasting with the tattered grey buildings.

The image below was my first one I did. To achieve more thumbnails in less time, I used original images and used the perspective lines of the buildings. I like the chance to play around with the lighting, to beam of light around the corner could be anything from a street light to a torch, but if this place is abandoned, whos holding the torch? eerie!

 Once again I used the perpective lines from the photographs,this image was taken in the day and I wanted to keep that look in the image. My favourite part of my image is the way the building looks like it's ganging up on the viewer. I've kept the right side of the building in shadow to show direction of light, but also having some reflections of light on the right side to emphases glass or plastic.

The main focus of the room would most definitly be the large window, it lets in a large amount of light to show up the interier of the room and also the landscape of outside. the size of the window gives me so much to play with in sense of interier, left over furniture, mold, nature, landscape, rust and anything else man or non-man made.

New Year, New Start

I admit I took a short break from work over the holidays, but when trying to get back into the project I was doing, I found it extremely hard and boring. I quickly realised this is not what I wanted to do. I know I don't have a lot of time left but in all fairness I wasnt doing a lot withmy time as it was. This time I'm going to change my idea, I realise I don't have much time, but over the last few days I have chose a new seen to do. I haven't been able to put stuff up because of the amount of powercuts my stupid house is having.

For christmas I was given a dvd collection of a documentary called 'Life After People', it's all about what happens to certain areas around the world when humans disappear from earth. The facts of the documentary had to come from places where humans have already disappeared from and left the areas abandoned. One of these places was a small idea of the coast of Nagaski, japan called Hashima, with the nickname of Battleship island (Gunkanjima), because of it's resemblance to a battleship.

What is amazing about this island, is the destruction of it is totally natural, the sea that surrounds the island has been battering it for centuries. the 5,259 inhabbitant had nothing to do with the condition the buildings are in now. Even with this destruction , I find it hard not to see the beauty of it, I like how nature has tried to reclaim back its land from the people. 

 There are some truely awesome images taken here, including the one above. What I like about this photo, is that you feel how it might have been to leave in a cramped room like thi, where up to 10 other people would also be living. The close up of the erosion is also beautiful to look at. The grass growing through the floor shows how long this room has been in an abandoned state.

 The tall but inclosed building give me the same feeling that was caused when Eleanor first saw 'Hill House'. Its as if they are looking over us, watching the ground for any sudden movement, movement that hasnt happened in centuries.

This was in my opinion the best image I found, I like the uncanny character it has. It's so simple yet im instantly asking myself, why did the people that lived here leave the tv, they wheren't rich so surely they would need all their belongings. Maybe they left in a hurry... Which makes me think, why did they leave so quickly?


In all these images, I can imagine standing where the photographer was, and listening to what was around. I can image hearing a slight russle every now and then as if there was something hiding in the shadows.