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Originally Posted by Daktari
I'm not at home so can't answer fully. I can explain a lot more about urbexing later. Now you've looked up urbexing now try flanneur and psychogeography.
Sadly there's been a fashion for over-processing urbex shots with the HDR technique. As can be seen in some of the above pictures. I personally don't like it and think that it spoils the natural beauty of decay.
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I feel a strong affinity (regarding my work, and way of being in the world), with both the flanneur and psychogeographic aesthetic!
Thanks for bringing those words to mind.
As for the HDR technique—I Googled it: "High Dynamic Range" photography.
As for "spoiling the natural beauty of decay," I agree in the sense that the technique seems to romanticize decay, whereas if you didn't HDR the shots of abandoned places—in which the human-made decays, and the natural thrives—there would still be plenty of opportunity to capture intensity, longing, despair, joy, and other feelings they might evoke.
I'm not a photographer and I don't want to dis the HDR thing outright, just saying in some instances I think it's the easy way out.
But still beautiful.
And as for stuff that's romanticized, I like it romanticized to the point of being almost hallucinogenic.