reminds me so much of my friends music room, the spraypaint on the walls and everything. i love the tones you've got it in, and the certain balance it seems to have. way to go hon.

You've hit the mood and the lighting right on the spot, and kept the 'factual' feel. Nice work!

it gives me the feel of "this room had seen many terrible days " .
i really liked the mood of emptiness but once a used place.
also nice tones!

Great. I like so muck the light.

where do you read it dies???
is it " ¡ muere rafael ! " ?

i like the colours of the photo and the rool... still i cant read the message on the foto..

still its a great photo..
i like it a lot.. expecialy the dark colours...

It's not the letter "i"; it's an upside-down exclamation mark... there's an exclamation mark at the other end, too. According to Babblefish "muere" translates from Spanish to English "It dies." I assumed Rafael was the person who tagged the wall. Since I don't speak Spanish, I could have the wrong interpretation of the graffiti, but it seems to make sense in context.

(Spanish speaker raising his hand)
Marcia, actually, "Muere Rafael!" means "Die, Rafael!" (whoever Rafael is)　You are right about the first exclamation mark, that`s how we begin a written exclamation (I can`t do it with this keyboard though)
For some reason the guy does not look like Hitler to me...
Where did you take this picture? I mean, what country and region?

I really like the lighting in this piece, and the overall mood.

Exceptional contrast. The light pouring in from the windows dispells a little of the gloom, adding to a powerful ambience and in some way lending a positive outlook to the photograph. Perhaps experimenting with alternative angles would have created different moods.

hmmm, in the last one the composition worked out better.to me it did transport the intended meaning, though i am still not sure about hitler, hehe...
under the stronger contrast the attention is much more drawn to the right wall as, for the same reason, in the first one. still a very good picture...

Great interior shot, wonderful light. Reminds me of squats around sydney a few years back. Wondering where {location} it was shot?

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate your comments.

Augustopatino: Thanks for the translation. Hmm. Wonder who Rafael is? Maybe I should just erase his name.

Minisplat: This was the strongest composition considering I had to work around a bunch of support posts that blocked views from many places, and I only had a 28mm lens.

Lox2Eagle: This is the exact same composition as the last one; I simply changed it to a duotone, changed curves to add contrast, burned in the grille on the window and dodged some of the details that got lost when I made the image darker. But it's the same photo.

It's definitely Hitler. Up close you can see the trademark moustache. Besides, Hitler was the only European leader (in recent times) who generated this much anger in America. If there are pictures of Musollini or Stalin anywhere, I'm not aware of them. WWII was an important era in American history.

Velvet: This was shot in Ohio, USA. This is an abandoned military fort that was built in the 1800s, prior to our Civil War, and closed in 1972. I used to have free access to about half the buildings, but they've tightened security (partly because homeless people camp there during the winter) and I haven't been able to get in since late summer.

sure it is the same photo, but changing contrasts changed the compo in this case. i do not exactly remember the last version, so i stop babbling, hehe

I like it You have some great photos. +3

Muere Rafael... You're from latinoamerica?
I really like the scene, the angle, and the illumination, the details in the walls are great.

hey!

Thanks for the comment. You were the first person who was actually nice enough to say anything on my photography section. The first person who talked like the rest and actually explain why they would say such a thing and I thank you for that. my picture "under" wasn't exactly just a random photo, it's just that I'm still an amature. I thought that picture under portrayed his best side and so that was why I posted that one up. As for "sand"... im going to delete that. But when I got all those harsh comments on "under", it felt like a thousand forks striked me from behind on what I thought I did a good job on, and so you could tell how awful I had felt. But I guess my pictures aren't artistic universally, but maybe later.. Thank you for your comment and actually telling me that since no one was nice enough to put it in a nicer way. (I don't know if u could call that nice, but it was a lot more understanding)

oh and btw. I love your photography work. Especially your more recent one that I'm commenting on. It reminds me of a temple I went to go visit when I was little in an old beaten down neighborhood... Very beautiful.

Once again,
thank you

Wonderful moody lighting and crisply captured textures. I wouldn't have known that was Hitler unless I read your description; that certainly adds layers to this. I just saw a face with scratched-out eyes, which is already pretty evocative. Regardless of the meaning of the graffiti, I like it—I think graffiti gives buildings character—and it provides the photo with a great focal point.