Sunday, December 21, 2008

. . . from the archives #31: Amargosa Hotel—Death Valley, 1995


Taken as I was just driving by. The hotel is actually a tourist destination, with its own web site.

The evident grain structure in the photo means, to me, that it’s probably made with a Tri-X negative. Good low-light sensitivity, but very high grain. It’s a nice look—nowadays you can get software programs to add "grain" to digital files which are of course grainless. (Digital files have "noise.")

The question remains: what was I doing with low-light sensitive film in Death Valley!?

Photo: Amargosa Hotel—Death Valley, 1995

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