The Kiss, Las Vegas - Fine Art Photography

The Kiss, Las Vegas . . . by Joseph Szymanski

The kiss, lovers on the strip. Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Keywords: 35mm, black and white, casino, couple, film, full frame, high contrast, horizontal, kiss, las vegas, lovers, low light, natural light, People, silver gelatin print

This photo was posted by Joseph Szymanski on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm and is filed under People

John on April 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am:
hmm love the contrast.. the dark darks and the blurred light ..

just wondering how you achieved it – film or digital? straight pic or post-processing?? and if you used anything.. what were they, how were you able to achieve this look?
Joseph Szymanski on April 29th, 2009 at 3:30 am:

Thanks for the comment John. To answer your question, the photograph was shot on film, Tri-X 400, push processed to iso 1000, hand held using available light. The image is actually a scan of the darkroom print. The only post processing done was some local bleaching of the print to bring up the highlights.
Reisen on October 5th, 2009 at 1:21 am:
Do I understand this right it was analog? Well nice work then! I thought it is from a digi cam and wanted to ask you if you used HDI for the details.
Joseph Szymanski on October 5th, 2009 at 11:57 am:

Reisen, you are correct, this was shot on film. No HDR here.. just a little creative darkroom printing. Thanks for the comment.
Auto Haftpflichtversicherung on October 13th, 2009 at 11:50 pm:
What film (grain) did you used? Shutter speed? Maybe you can post a little bit more information about this amazing Las Vegas photo?
Joseph Szymanski on October 14th, 2009 at 10:53 am:

The image was shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 film, pushed to iso 1000 using Acufine developer. I was using an old Leica screwmount rangefinder with a 35mm f/3.5 lens. I believe the exposure was f/3.5 @ 1/15 of a second if memory serves. Hope that helps…