Sunset in Downtown St. Paul

[earlj]

This is the B&W version of the shot I posted in the color section:
http://f295.f295.org/uploads/Blah.pl?b-CP/m-1180733723/s-new/
For this shot, I took the tripod out to a little concrete island between the right turn lane and the central traffic lane. It allowed me to frame the Travelers building alone, but I lost some of the downtown atmosphere.

4x5 120 mm f300
Tech Pan 2 minutes exposure
developed in Technidol 8 minutes Attached files

[idleone]

pardon my ignorance: what's a BandW?

[earlj]

Black and White.

As opposed to color.

[idleone]

oh yeah, the wierd way this forum interprets the 'and' symbol and prints it as the word instead of the symbol.

i forgot about that strange foible.

thanks for the image earl, i like shooting from roads too but it can be bloody scary at times when the best angle is out in the traffic

[Daryl]

Oh wow!
Look at the range in the darker tones!
That has got to be a spectacular print!

[Marv]

Daryl nailed it.....such rich tones and detail in the low values. The way the reflections of the buildings sprouts from the shadows is a bit of a wild effect also.

[Delio]

In addition, I think it conveys very well how massive the buildings, where we work and live, really are by not showing the cars on the highway as a reference. Thanks for showing it to us, Earl