There is something about this photo - and other photos I have that are similar - that I really love. Part of it is the texture of it. Blogger is going to compress this a bit, but open up the full size version (and make it big if your browser resizes automatically) and you will see that lovely grain, the heavy vignetting and the almost worn-out quality that makes it look like this photo is a lot older than it is. The truth is I probably took it sometime in 1997. The film I used when I shot black and white was always Kodak Tri-X, and it was capable of tighter grain than this. But I shot this with my Pentax K-1000 with a 400mm Tokina lens that always did this to all of my photos - it was a terrible lens, but it gave me this almost newspaper-like look that I loved. It fit the look of New York so well, and it made it seem even more industrial of a city than it is.
I no longer have that camera or lens and it's difficult to duplicate this look digitally. It can be done, but it takes a long time to really make it convincing.
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