Abandoned Housing Estate

[iangreenhalgh1]

I used the 6.9mm f2.65 lens from a Mitsubishi projector on my Olympus OM-D E-M5.


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[visualopsins]

I like the variety of angles producing many views! (what building material is used, please?)

[iangreenhalgh1]

Those are 1940s (immediate postwar) pre-fabricated houses, so they are made from slabs of concrete. They have been modernised and covered in wet-dash rendering in the 90s.

Roughcast stucco
Roughcast (also called 'wet-dash' in Cumbria and 'harling' in Scotland) is a render with a coarse finishing coat containing gravel thrown in a premixed state onto a wall. It is distinct from pebble dash (or 'dry dash') in which the aggregate is applied separately onto wet plaster.

The colour is a beige off-white, although some were painted by the owners.



The estate has been partly abandoned for 3 years now, some of the houses have already been demolished, some are still occupied, some are standing derelict.

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/18123517.outdated-millom-housing-estate-demolished-rebuilt-66-new-homes/

It looked like this before they started on the redevelopment project.

[skida]

Great set of results, even with the imperfections. It's all fascinating

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers. Glad you find them interesting. There are a lot of imperfections, the technical aspect of this shoot is a long way from perfect, there are all sorts of stitching and perspective problems, I had to ditch quite a few shots due to that, there are loads of other small issues of all kinds, blurry spots caused by the wind and the imperfections of the HDR software's ghost removal, the list goes on.

But overall, I was quite happy with the outcome because I learned quite a bit that will hopefully serve me in good stead for the next attempt at something similar and as abandoned and derelict things are one of my favourite subjects, it's good that I practice.

[RokkorDoctor]