Jacko's Neverland - Photos from his abandoned home

[skyscraper101]

Not quite on a par with Paolo999's amazing adventures but still fairly interesting for all those interested in photos of deserted landmarks and suchlike...

This guy uploaded loads of pics from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch which is currently sitting empty while he lives abroad.

http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/inside-neverland-ranch

More here too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/sets/72157603558879859/

 

[zenie]

So did he have permission or not?

 

[skyscraper101]

I gather that as it was mostly done in the middle of the night and Jackson's not even selling it off now - he didn't.

Apparently there's a strict no photography rule there too judging by one of the fans who's been there.

 

[dlx1]

was on telly other day Richard & July

two English block trying to buy today and build at hotel & theam park there.

 

[lighterthief]

How the heck do you get such beautifully exposed colours in the middle of the night at long exposures? My night time pics with the Nikon D50 are riddled with noise.

 

[T/C]

Fantastic photographs, some of the people posting on that site are a bit spooky though!

March 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Michael Jackson is a blessing to the world in so many ways… and Neverland has been such an inspiration to us-his fans who wish and work to make this world a better place…I have tears in my eyes to see this beautiful, lovely, loving place be subjected to such desecration, but my heart says that Neverland will be saved and Michael will return to live here in love, joy, bliss, pride and sweetness and our sweet Neverland will be filled with the laughter and joys of children once again!!! God bless you Michael and God bless sweet Neverland forever!!!

 

[selamlar]

How the heck do you get such beautifully exposed colours in the middle of the night at long exposures? My night time pics with the Nikon D50 are riddled with noise.

Blowing my own trumpet slightly,

Long exposures, tripod etc.

 

[dlx1]

can see trypod shadow

edit
I'm just jealous I don't have a Camera exposure more then 2sec

 

[selamlar]

Yup. Not claiming its a brilliant shot, but am chuffed with the exposures etc, considering it was about 10 at night.

 

[lighterthief]

Yep, only my long exposures on a tripod end up containing a lot of noise. Oh well.

 

[stdPikachu]

My night time pics with the Nikon D50 are riddled with noise.

CCD's in digital cameras are much more prone to noise than chemical film, which was used to take these pics (it's T-Max 100 in a large format view camera). If you want properly exposed night pics with most digital cameras, you typically take several short exposures and combine them in an edit suite to form one long exposure.

You can get specially cooled CCD's for night work, but don't think they come for anything but telescopes

 

[zenie]

Blowing my own trumpet slightly,

Long exposures, tripod etc.

Didn't you do that on a medium format though, or am I thinking of something else?

 

[selamlar]

How long exposure are you using? IIRS I was using 10 mins at f8 on 100 film.

 

[selamlar]

Didn't you do that on a medium format though, or am I thinking of something else?

I was going to wonder whether it would make any real difference, until I saw this:

CCD's in digital cameras are much more prone to noise than chemical film, which was used to take these pics (it's T-Max 100 in a large format view camera). If you want properly exposed night pics with most digital cameras, you typically take several short exposures and combine them in an edit suite to form one long exposure.

You can get specially cooled CCD's for night work, but don't think they come for anything but telescopes

So all that remains to be said is 'Film good, medium format film great, digital bad).




Under certain conditions, obv.

 

[zenie]

How the heck do you get such beautifully exposed colours in the middle of the night at long exposures? My night time pics with the Nikon D50 are riddled with noise.

What ISO are you using?

 

[lighterthief]

As low as possible, assuming I'm using a tripod - 200 on the D50.

 

[boskysquelch]

you know he's moving to Devon?...Barnstaple in fact.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

According to the information on the flikr site under more properties the pictures in the OP were taken at 30 seconds with an ISO of 400. That explains the star trails. The illumination in the foreground is done with what looks like off camera flash off to the right of the camera in some pictures. There is also mention in the text in another place of two other people helping with the lighting.

The information from the exif says that the pictures were taken in 1980 although they were posted on Flikr in 2007. Methinks the camera date setting was bit a bit out there! I don't think the Canon Digital Rebel had been invented back then.

Only the black and white picture of the train station on the Bearings site was taken on film with a large format camera. The colour ones were all on a Canon Digital Rebel. You need to check both links on the OP.

 

[stdPikachu]

The D50 only goes down to 200?! Heck, I'm used to using 50 or 100 tops for night shots.

 

[lighterthief]

According to exif some of those Neverland shots were taken at ISO 200, so not sure this is the only, or indeed main, factor.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

According to exif some of those Neverland shots were taken at ISO 200, so not sure this is the only, or indeed main, factor.

No it is not the only factor. Noise varies between different digital sensors and also may depend on the built in noise reduction system in the camera firmware. (Read a few reviews of cameras in dpreview.com). Many digital cameras will give a bit of noise at 200 ISO. However even if you set your camera to its lowest ISO to avoid noise and make up the exposure by doing a time exposure that lasts more than a second or so, you will still get noise if there really is not enough light in the subject.

Digital noise is worse than film graininess because the digital image produces visible pixels of red green and blue. Film has a range of different sizes of crystals converted to dyes after processing and is easier on the eye even when a bit grainy.

 

[pk]

Fuck that.

 

[LadyLDN]

Thanks for posting that link - pretty interesting. Feel quite vouyeristic looking at those. Some of those captures are pretty haunting.

 

[1927]

Was reading an article in the New York Post on sunday about how Jacko basically set out to ruin the rest of the family. He signed all his brothers to his own record label and then refused to release any of their music or let them perform. His brothers persuaded their friends to remortgage properties to pay for MJ legal bills and then he knocked them all. The rest of the family, the sisters apart are all broke and massively in debt.