The New Yorker Hotel

Super, Vic. The grittiness suits the scene perfectly. Another one in your nice New York collection.

All the best,
Daniel

Thanks for the comments. Yes, this needs some work. It's a tough one to print..crazy light. The hotel is being illuminated from the front by reflections from 1 Penn Plaza and The Empire State building and from the rear by the sunset. That being said, I never did a test strip. I knew I could squeeze one more print from my lith developer and just went with the exposure from the previous, completely different neg. Good darkroom technique, no?
I thought that the lith treatment would work well with the building's clean 1930's streamline design and together give it a "Gotham City" - like, film noir grittiness that I always envision when seeing it.

By the way, the great Croatian inventor Nikola Tesla lived and passed away in the Hotel New Yorker.

This print makes a powerful statement! Love the grittiness!
Excellent & Well Done!
Regards.
Alan.

Wow, very nice! I like it the way it is and I see some potential crops, too. Either way would work. Always enjoy viewing your works!

I think the framing looks quite good; the slight off-centering of the main subject building keeps it from being too predicatble and static, yet it still dominates the frame. But with the wealth of geometric detail, you could probably find dozens of nice compositions within it...

I always think of holga images as being soft. Interesting to see that "grittiness" instead. A fine image!

Wow and double-wow!!!! I wouldn't touch the framing. This so much reminds me of work done in the 30's and 40's. 'Love it!!!

wow,
what a great image.
don't change a thing!

john

Wow and double wow! I wouldn't touch the framing. Reminds me of 30's and 40's images that I love so much! (Strange - I posted a comment here 30 minutes ago and it never appeared?).

Cheers,

Gene

Berenice Abbot would be proud.

Hi Vic, love this, no one shoots NYC like you... strong composition and tonal presentation... keep the adjustments to a tweak 'cause this is quite nice as is...


good seeing from you again...

Miles