I took these photos over the past several years, some of them very recently. The subject of most of these photos is urban exploration (“urbex”). I find it awe-inspiring, sad and beautiful to explore the insides of buildings that are being transformed, sometimes week to week, by water and gravity.
Note: You can view thumbnails of many of my exhibited photos at the bottom of this page.
The colors of these distressed structures are sometimes stunning, though not in all lighting situations—I’ve visited several of these structures multiple times in different weather conditions to rework images.
These has been an immense amount of trial and error to compose the images in a way that satisfied me. I spent many additional hours post-processing these images using Photomatix (see below) and Lightroom in order to create these effects. These are High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs printed on metal.
Each of these photographs began with a series of 3 or 5 bracketed photos of the same scene using my Canon 7D Mark II, a tripod and a remote shutter release. These images were synthesized using Photomatix software, which combines the images using numerous parameters that I choose. The resulting large (18mb-25mb) images are then printed directly onto ready-to-hang metal sheets using a relatively new expensive high tech process. I choose to print my metal images here in St. Louis at Diversified Labs, which does an outstanding job of making these images pop.
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To Purchase my photo art or to hire me for a photo shoot, contact me:
Erich Vieth
erichvieth@gmail.com
314-604-3454
www.erichvieth.com
