Brothel

This is a shot from last fall, taken on one of several tours I took at the Nordegg Historic site.  This building is rumoured to have once been a brothel.  It is at the edge of the mine site, and near a few residences.  The fact that the building had multiple bedroom like rooms is what initiated this rumour.

I took this photograph on a sheet of Kodak T-Max 100 film, rated at 80 iso and developed in 510 Pyro.  I shot this on September 30th of 2024, at about 2:45 in the afternoon.

I used my Ebony view camera and an extreme wide angle 47mm lens.  This focal length on a 4" x 5" view camera is roughly equivalent to a 15mm lens on a full frame digital camera, or 35mm film.  This lens sometimes requires a center filter, to compensate for light fall off at the edges, and I used one here.  I cropped this to panoramic proportions as I did not adequately raise the standards of the camera, and the bed of the view camera was visible in the foreground.  But it works this way.

The exposure was for 30 seconds at F16.