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Atlanta based editorial music photographer, Zack Arias. |
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Wed , March 18th, 2009
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Was led to an old prison by J. at Aaron’s record label. We are spending the day working on his new CD artwork and promo material. This shot was from this morning. We are going back this week to explore this place some more. Dave Jackson would feel at home here. I have been shooting every day this week but another critique episode is in the works and will be online in a few days! Cheers, 51 Responses to “Old Prison :: Aaron Shust”Leave a Reply |
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cool shot. I like the way the tiles are all messed up around the chair.
ive really wanted to shoot here, but felt sketchy about leaving my car on the side of the road and my acura integra isnt made for offroading for sure! shot looks rad. maybe one day ill get some gonads and shoot there….holler if you want some company next time!!!
wow
this location couldn’t be more wonderful or poetic for aaron shust’s genre…
I am jealous of you. In my neck of the woods very little stays abandoned long and when it does they usually protect it so much you can’t get there. I love urban decay backgrounds.
Love this shot! What a great environment. I love Aaron’s music too.
Man this is a sick shot. Awesome work as always, Zack.
great shot. great lighting. great composition.
Careful…. I can’t tell from the photo if those are asbestos tiles or not. Asbestos is fine if it’s still intact but becomes a very real health hazard when broken up like those are.
But the shot itself is cool…… Didn’t want to leave that out.
@matt – you wanna go on Friday or Saturday?
This place is located where? Come on, you know you wanna give it up.
I havent shot there yet for the same reason Matt stated… seen a lot of good urban decay shots from there but this tops them all!
Looks like a great location, I’m very interested in these type of places.
I live in Atlanta and would really like to go one of these days. Would it be at all possible that you let me know where this is? even if a link to the general area on google maps or something, if so send me an email.
Thanks! and great site, I’m addicted to the critique posts already.
What an awesome image! Talk about TENSION! Sure makes a kickass bw, but I’m sure you know that
I was the dimwit who said she’d never heard of you at the BPP meeting. Would give my left tata to shoot in a place like this. Will schlep gear to make amends.
WOW! This is GA? ATL? Interesting to say the least. We don’t have stuff like that out here in the sticks. It just gets abandoned and left to rot. It never gets the cool graffiti treatment.
BTW – Was the barber’s chair in there already? Weird.
Great shot.
There’s some amazing stuff like that in Gary, IN that I shoot a lot.
I really admire your stuff. It’s way rockin’ awesome! And… Aaron is a great artist. Waaayee cool that you get to work with him.
Looks like Chernobyl
Love it! what a great show and amazing environment!
@Steven – The chair was just sitting there waiting for us!
This place is off Moreland by the old drive in. To not draw attention to yourself it is best to park about half a mile away and walk to it. I can’t remember the name of the street but I’m going back this week and will take note of it.
It is weird in that you would never know it’s there. You can’t see it from the road. You have to know it’s there to find it. I would have never found it unless I was led to it.
Take me there and feed me New Castle. Please.
Do you know of any places like this in DC or VA. Its one amazing local my man!
sweet shot.
i wonder if there’s anything like that here in Charlotte….
I always wondered about shooting in stuff like that, but always afraid of getting in trouble, or a bunch of crackheads/homeless people would be there.
Ah, sick, I just posted a Cyanotype I did from that very location. I snagged some photos from that location a couple times last fall. It’s big with a lot of good spots.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianhallphotography/3366463907/
would love to see what kind of onelight shots you got in here…maybe you didn’t have to though….I’m loving the critques. keep it up man.
Very cool Zack!
I know this is not a critique, and I am not about to try and critique your work…still hoping to have you do that for me. I’m just wondering if you considered doing any without the mattresses and bed frames. And what your thought process is around that when you arrive at a job site like that. Aside from the obvious, which is maybe not a good idea to touch those things without gloves.
@zack…crap! im gonna be in nyc this weekend. raincheck?
Zack I found your blog shortly after someone posted your movie Transform on digital photography school and have enjoyed your blog greatly.
Love the shot, the location and especially the look away from the center of the frame.
The texture and feel is fantastic.
Zack,
This might be a stupid question, But I new at this. Did you light this or is it just available light from windows or something…
Cheers
Gary
Zack,
This location would be great picture of you sitting in the chair with a bunch of images of your past work scatter all over the floor around the chair and maybe some smashed up camera equipment. Call it the winter funk!!!!
@Gary – This was just window light. Had I not had my D3 with it’s clean high ISO capabilities I would have needed to light it. I like your portait idea!
Cheers,
Zack
@BrianHall – that cyanotype is dope!
I love Aaron Shust! And I love this image. The lighting is beautiful, but I also love how the “stuff” in the background is leading to him, like directing your eye right to him. Very awesome! Was he a pretty cool guy in person? So fun to see some recent work of yours!
Hey Zack,
I thought you were the RAW shooting type. How do you deal with keeping Nikon’s NR when you bring a RAW file over into Lightroom?
I’ve found I have to shoot big TIFFs if I want to shoot high ISO stuff.
But, I’m on LR 1.x so that could be my issue.
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Zack – love this shot! I wish there were locations like this down in South Florida. BTW – when ARE you coming to SF to do a workshop??
He’s one of my favorite Christian artists! Can’t wait to see the shots you did for him!
try shooting in Buffalo sometime, everything is abandoned here.
@Trey – I’ve never noticed NR problems in my Nikon files when working with NEF’s in LR 1.x. I’ll have to do a test.
Cheers,
Zack
Zack what lens did you shoot this with and at what ISO
An where you standing on something
the NR isn’t a problem, necessarily. it’s that when you view the JPG preview on the back of the camera, the image looks astounding. whatever Nikon is doing to process the image & apply NR just isn’t replicatable in lightroom – at least, that’s been my experience.
if you do a NEF+JPG exposure at a high ISO, you’ll see what I’m talking about.
in fact, I may do the test & put it up on my blog so you can see what I’m talking about.
Nice! I’m a big fan of Aaron Shust. You’re one lucky guy!
To quote Filter, “That’s why I say hey man nice shot….what a good shot man!”
Now I KNOW I have to get into Waverly Hills Sanitarium in daylight.
Love Aaron’s music LOVE your photography. Perfection. Any chance we can see more of the shoot?
is that the old prison work farm? neat place
I love the messed up tiles and his James-Dean_Look alike style position in retro chic surrounding
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