The Seymour Hotel wasn't the best place in town, even though it was probably the only place in town.

But a wonderful prairie sunset made it look wonderful.

An old picture taken with a Canon EOS 600, probably on Fujichrome.

A bit of manipulation has been done since it was scanned but the colours are pretty much as shot.

I cloned out a couple of modern cars and added the classic Caddy, and the light in the one bedroom.

Posted by Lloydy on Mon, 04/13/09 19:08
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Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Mon, 04/13/09 19:34 A view that makes me think of riding through the little towns of the west in a Greyhound bus and the bus stopping here for a 10 minute coffee break and a smoke. I wish the bottom edge of the image had been a little lighter to allow the Caddy to stand out... a grey background page color helps a little. Comments by Jim E on Mon, 04/13/09 21:39 This is great! The sunset gives the grittiness some colour. This is in the tradition of that photographer who recorded everyday America in the 70's (and whose name will come to me as soon as I hit "submit"), particularly petrol outlets. Comments by Trevor Lloyd on Tue, 04/14/09 07:48 Conveys the mood very nicely. Very creepy. Owned by the Bates family perhaps? Comments by Rick Longworth on Tue, 04/14/09 07:59 looks a bit grainy. Comments by Jim E on Tue, 04/14/09 08:59 Yeah, I forgot to mention that you have artifacts on the upper corners. Comments by Amy Parker on Tue, 04/14/09 10:58 Nicely done. Comments by Lloydy on Tue, 04/14/09 12:04 The grain is from the original quick scan I did a few years ago, and the dark corners. I might have a polorizer still on the lens? But with a bit of work that's fixable. Here's the original scan. Comments by Lloydy on Tue, 04/14/09 14:13 I scanned it again at 1200 dpi, and it looks a lot better. I must have been in a hurry when I did the first one. I've altered it again in the spirit of the edit I did a few years ago, but I haven't put the Caddy in this time. I think it looks a lot better? Comments by Trevor Lloyd on Tue, 04/14/09 14:17 I thought the added light in the upstairs window was effective in the OP Comments by Lloydy on Tue, 04/14/09 14:29 Ignore that one! The 'copy & paste' went wrong and that's the original again. And there's no way to edit it from the thread. So..... here's the one I wanted to post. Sorry about the bandwith! Comments by Linda Frey on Tue, 04/14/09 16:23 It looks like a small-town hotel or two that I have in my files. The last version has much fewer artifacts than the OP. There is still some, in smaller blocks in the sky, but it's not too bad. Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Tue, 04/14/09 19:18 Much better in my view... all that is missing now is that Caddy by the back door of the Seymour Hotel you had in the original posting. Comments by dannyshyan on Wed, 04/15/09 00:44 it looks like the sort of place that one would walk into if they were looking for trouble. No doubt a local hangout for the bikers and other assorted hoodlums that hang around Hanna. Comments by Lloydy on Wed, 04/15/09 13:09 I've stopped in worse places than that! At least they didn't have "Rooms by the hour" signs on display. Scanning slides isn't the way to get anything of a decent size, the grain is slide sized and doesn't like to be digitally blown up. Which is why the picture is messy to the right of the tower "HOTEL" sign, there's a big mark on the slide that I cloned ( possibly before I resized ? )and it shows up. Dodging / burning the dark parts of the sky in the corners soon turns messy as well. I think I'm going to try photographing the slides instead, either by projecting onto a small screen, but that raises parallax problems as the camera can't be on the same plane or axis. Maybe it would work with the screen tilted midway between the camera and projector? The other alternatives are a transparent screen and shooting 'opposite', or fitting a low wattage bulb in the projector and aiming directly into the camera lens. I've seen some plans for this method on the internet, I can see a project looming. Comments by Jim E on Wed, 04/15/09 17:55 I like the final result anyway. And keep us up-to-date on your "project". We will learn something! Comments by Maria Salvador on Fri, 04/17/09 07:33 Yes, the last version looks nice. A nostalgic mood to it.