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Qiaoyou Building Supplemental

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Recently I posted my full exploration of the Qiaoyou Building (喬友大廈), a towering ruin in the heart of Changhua City. It was a big building and I ended up capturing many more photographs than I ended up sharing there. Here, in this post, I’d like to share a few more photos I captured in black and white. I have also included a couple of images demonstrating how I digitally restore photographic negatives I find in the ruins.

To the very top
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 7.1
Shutter Speed
1/200 sec
Focal Length
23.0 mm
ISO
400
Exposure Value
13.3 EV
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1800 × 1200
The rickety ladder leading up to the very top of the Qiaoyou Building.
The entrance to the topmost KTV
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.5
Shutter Speed
1/10 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
3200
Exposure Value
6.9 EV
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1800 × 1200
The entrance to the KTV on the very top floor of the Qiaoyou Building.
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.5
Shutter Speed
1/40 sec
Focal Length
19.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
8.9 EV
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1800 × 1200
Torn carpets and rusted valves.
Old teal telephone
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 5.3
Shutter Speed
1/30 sec
Focal Length
48.0 mm
ISO
1250
Exposure Value
9.7 EV
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1800 × 1200
A game of broken telephone.
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 6.3
Shutter Speed
1/160 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
12.6 EV
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1200 × 1800
A ghost in the mirror.
Qiaoyou negatives
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 9
Shutter Speed
1/320 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
14.7 EV
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1800 × 1200
Found negatives in the Qiaoyou Building.
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1800 × 1200
Digitally exposing some of the found negatives.
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Broken windows on film. Very meta.
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.5
Shutter Speed
1/50 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
9.3 EV
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1800 × 1200
Checkered walls on the upper levels of the Qiaoyou Building.
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 5.6
Shutter Speed
1/125 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
11.9 EV
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1800 × 1200
The mezzanine.
A tangle of cables down on the mezzanine
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 5.6
Shutter Speed
1/125 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
11.9 EV
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1800 × 1200
A tangle of cables down in the mezzanine level.
Dust machine
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 5.6
Shutter Speed
1/125 sec
Focal Length
28.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
11.9 EV
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1800 × 1800
A decade of dust.
Tiny bones
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.8
Shutter Speed
1/30 sec
Focal Length
23.0 mm
ISO
2200
Exposure Value
8.8 EV
Download
1800 × 1800
Tiny bones in the stairwell.
The south side of the Qiaoyou Building from the tenth floor
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 11
Shutter Speed
1/400 sec
Focal Length
18.0 mm
ISO
800
Exposure Value
15.6 EV
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1800 × 1200
On the south side.
KTV tapes in the abandoned strip club
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.8
Shutter Speed
1/13 sec
Focal Length
24.0 mm
ISO
3200
Exposure Value
7.6 EV
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1800 × 1200
KTV tapes on the third floor.
Secret video cassettes
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.8
Shutter Speed
1/20 sec
Focal Length
24.0 mm
ISO
3200
Exposure Value
8.2 EV
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1800 × 1200
Abandoned video cassettes.
Date Captured
Camera
NIKON D3100
Lens
AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
Aperture
ƒ / 3.8
Shutter Speed
1/15 sec
Focal Length
24.0 mm
ISO
3200
Exposure Value
7.8 EV
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1800 × 1200
KTV machine.

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Alexander Synaptic
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.

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