rx_photoaday ([info]rx_photoaday) wrote,
@ 2008-02-09 16:50:00
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Entry tags:asylum, coffins

The basement

Unused patient coffins sit piled inside the pitch black  basement of an asylum in the Northeast United States...
the photo is a long exposure painted with a flashlight




Tullo's photos of this location: http://www.designedbreakdown.com/photo/hospital_m/galleries/2007-04-22/index.html
Mott's photos of this location: http://www.opacity.us/site39_northwood_asylum.htm
Nicksan's photos of this location: http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/nicksan/Northwood/

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[info]goldenmoonmodel
2008-02-09 10:40 pm UTC (link)
these coffins creeps me out every time i see them. imagine what it would have been if i saw them for real...

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[info]sadandangry
2008-02-09 11:11 pm UTC (link)
Excellent job, i love all the pictures, and yeah, the coffins scare me.

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[info]zind4gi
2008-02-09 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Oh, please tell me you got inside it? :) You know for my morbid curiosity.

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[info]rx_photoaday
2008-02-09 11:52 pm UTC (link)
i didnt get inside any of them because they were wet and moldy and full of sawdust stuffing... i have laid in a number of morgue trays in a few different state tho haha

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[info]worn_words
2008-02-10 03:30 am UTC (link)
how exactly do you paint with a flashlight?
do you just wave it around while the camera is snapping?

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[info]rx_photoaday
2008-02-11 01:14 am UTC (link)
yep thats pretty much all there is to it.... i tend to swipe the light over everything in a few passes then bounce it off the ceiling or a wall for the rest of the exposure time... it takes a few tries to get a shot perfect but its much easier then trying to bring portable lights/reflectors into these places

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[info]worn_words
2008-02-11 03:59 am UTC (link)
that's really cool! I'll have to keep it in mind when I do some building exploration in the spring.

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[info]spookynitemare
2008-02-13 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh Lord...Is that a body in the coffin?

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[info]rx_photoaday
2008-02-14 02:22 am UTC (link)
no no they are stuffed with hay and some of the stuffy is unsettled and leaking.. these were never used coffins sitting in crates

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