Camera: Nikon N75
Place: 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, CA
Film & processing: Cross-processed Fujichrome Provia 400X (RXP III) 35mm color slide Film
Additional details: Negative/Positive composite.
Category: cross-processed
Jun
02
photo details / cross processing
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Apr
22
Yeah right!
Earth Day 2010
If you really want to do the right thing why not recycle old posts?
Earth Day 2008 (When I was in a positive state mind)
Other than doing the obvious things such as reducing unnecessary electricity usage, planting something, recycling failed photo papers, bicycling, walking or taking the bus to work, all of us photographers (and non-photographers of course) ought to just turn off our computers, grab our cameras and go out there (i.e. walk, bike, take the bus) to make pictures of our beautiful planet.
Ah? How about that?
Earth Day 2009 (When I was down-to-earth)
Happy Earth Day!
Don’t forget to leave all the lights on when you leave home, drive your over-sized SUV over your neighbor’s stupid organic garden, cut down a couple of trees and dispose of used cans and bottles in the trash can. OK?
Malibu panorama. Camera: Minolta SRT 101
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Jan
13
Something about cross processed film
A couple of months ago I wrote a post praising the charm of cross-processed slide film. One thing I would like to add is that different types of slide film will react differently when cross-processed; Often they appear green but sometimes they have a blue or even a brownish hue. Therefore it will be a good idea to try a few of them before settling on your favorite effect.
And this is what a cross-processed Fuji RDPIII looks like:
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Nov
14
Holga and cross processing
One of my favorite things to do when shooting film is to cross process a slide film.
And just in case you didn’t know cross processing simply means processing your film in the wrong chemicals. For example, if you shoot a slide film and instead of developing it in the standard E6 chemicals you process your film in C41 chemicals which are normally used for processing negative film.
The process of developing slide film in C41 chemicals produces interesting and unexpected colors, a higher level of contrast and lots more grain. (Developing a negative in E6 chemicals is somewhat more difficult but should be quite interesting to try one day)
I think for me, the most attractive feature about x-processing is that I can never imagine what the picture is going to look like.
But even better, combining cross-processing with a Holga always produces something totally weird and unexpected. Great!
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Aug
24
Negatively positive
Layering a negative of an image over its positive often produces some interesting colors and adds a new dimension to any photo.
Luckily (for you) this technique is quite easy to do:
1) You can scan a negative version of your image or even create the negative in your photo editor.
2) Place the negative in a new layer above the original image.
3) Now play around with the transparency settings until you like the appearance of the final image.
A black and white photo will generate a cast of silver-like tone. Color images will tend to produce bluish-greenish quality. And a cross-processed image (such as the one here) will tend to appear quite a lovely green.
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Apr
17
My first camera
Most photographers when they talk about their first camera they suddenly turn all nostalgic and without any previous warning they drown in magical distant childhood memories. But not me. When I’m asked about my first camera I have to admit my story is quite lame, it only goes a few years back and is not special or wondrous at all.
Its quite embarrassing to admit but I actually began taking pictures with a digital camera. It was around 1998 before digital cameras invaded life in America, and in fact every time I used this camera I had to explain everybody around what a digital camera is. Though I must say I doubt that anybody really understood what a digital camera is all about because they always asked “but where is the film?” or “ how do you get the pictures from the film to the computer?”.
This so-called camera was a point and shoot Ricoh which was capable of creating images at 1 Megapixel (640X480), not enough to print even a wallet size picture. But I don’t really consider this camera to be my first camera: to start with, it wasn’t really mine; it actually belonged to my friendly neighbor. But mainly I don’t have any strong sentiments to this camera due to the fact this camera produced awfully low quality images which resembled something that looked more like a line drawing than an actual photograph. However, to its defense, I have to say that this alleged camera somehow made me curious about photography and helped me realize photography can actually be an enjoyable and a wonderful craft (instead of serious and stiff).
Ok, so my real true beloved first camera entered my life about a year later, sometimes in 1999. It wasn’t mine either. As I got curious about photography I wanted to shoot a real 35mm SLR. I looked around in different camera stores (yes, these stores are not fictitious and they actually did exist once) but even if I just wanted to purchase the body only (though I’m not sure what I would have done with an SLR with no lens) it was just too expensive for my shamefully modest budget.
So I complained and whined about it all to a few of my online friends (as you can see I don’t actually have real life friends) and I guess I must have done quite a good job of whining, that finally one of my online friends, Udi, told me he has an SLR camera, a Minolta SRT 101, which he is not planning on using anytime soon and if I really want it he is ready to let me borrow it. Right away, before he might change his mind, I said I’ll take it.
I still have this camera to this day. Its true Udi said I can borrow it for a while, but I think after he had seen how much I like this camera, not to mention the wonderful pictures I sent him, he just didn’t have the heart to take it away from me.
So every once in a while I go back to this camera and shoot a few rolls.
I think this camera will always have a special place in my heart.
Surfer, Santa Monica.
camera: Minolta SRT 101 Film: Kodachrome 64 (cross-processed)
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Nov
13
Coffee stains
When People see this picture they often ask me to describe how I photoshoped it.
They think I used some layer texture process or something.
But actually this picture was not processed in Photoshop or any other photo editor.
It is originally a picture taken in Ashbury-Haight (San Francisco) with a cross-processed Fujichrome Provia-F 100 (RHP-III) Color Slide Film.
It was then professionally printed (by dotphoto.com) on a matte finish paper. It is necessary to have the photo professionally printed as the following steps would not work with an inkjet print.
The print was then directly (lightly)sanded and finally coffee stained.
Quite simple.
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Oct
14
Around town with a toy camera #11
3rd street promenade, Santa Monica / Holga / Kodak EPD Ektachrome 200 x-processed / 2007
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Sep
28
Around town with a toy camera #7
Melrose, Los Angeles / Diana / Kodak EPD (x-processed) / 2006
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Oct
11
street photos
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Frankly, I didn’t think I will find any street photos outside of Washington DC but as it turned out Virginia in fact offered plenty of opportunities for street photography.
Most of them were found in Richmond but also in small charming towns like Alexandria and Petersburg.
By the way, in order to create an x-processed effect in this image (which was taken at Main Street in Richmond), I added more contrast and then accentuated the green highlights.
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