Evan- Cross-Processed film image
Opening night
Les at work
Les at work
Evan- Cross-Processed film image
Evan- Tim Rudman in Lith Printing 2 workshop
Evan- Tim Rudman in the Lith Printing 2 Workshop
Evan- John Callow at his Cross-Processing workshop

Evan- Cross-Processed film image

Street scene, one block from the conference building.

*** NOTE *** This image has been updated from the one I posted earlier today. It is closer to what the neg should have produced onto print film. The previous iteration was too contrasty to be faithful to the information on the negative. Hope this doesn't cause any confusion!

Evan

Fujichrome Provia 100F film (120 roll) exposed and cross-processed at the conference in C-41 as a color print film.

ALL images were allowed for this gallery, including digital. I am including this one, which was done from the color neg I shot. My local lab print machine could not recognize the film for printing, so I had to scan the neg, reverse it to a positive, and bring it up in PhotoShop to get this image to the gallery site.

As you can see, it is a full-frame 6x6, including the film edge markings.
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frugal
Hey,

I was also in the cross-processing workshop. Curious about your scanning technique, I tried a similar technique but everything just came out really washed out (while the neg looked fine). I was scanning it using viewscan and had it just output the raw ccd data so I think that's what caused a problem since that tends to give a very dark image.
 
Hi Art,

This exposure was the normal exposure of several that I bracketed. It's quite contrasty, however, because I was playing with the image in PhotoShop and finalized it for the way I wanted it to look from my Epson printer. I forgot to change it back to a normal look for this APUG gallery posting! I think I will re-do it, and re-post it to look the way it would look as a straight print from the neg.

Evan
 
Okay, okay, I didn't really scan the image. Just put it that way for a quick description.
Here's the actual procedure I used:

The color neg (120 roll film) was put on a light box -the kind you use for sorting slides- and I photographed it with my digital camera in the macro setting. Transferred the image from the memory card to the computer, and brought it up in PhotoShop.

With the Invert command, the neg image was converted to a pos image, and the rest was the usual (or sometimes not usual) controls to adjust color, contrast, etc.

I did have a test print that my local photo lab owner was able to get to me by using completely manual controls on his very sophisticated printing machine, and that test print showed me somewhat similar colors to what I just posted here, but I think I can do a better print for this site, and will post it again.

Evan
 
jd callow
Scanners have a tough time penetrating the dense areas of a xprocessed neg. 1) Scan as pos. 2) Invert (without rebate -- image only) 3) adjust levels inward in each channel so that the histogram fits the entire width --or use auto levels 4) adjust density and colour by moving the center marker in levels or curves.

As mentioned in the workshop a good portion of xprocessing is the relationship between paper and film.

This look as if it wil be close to perfect. I suspect that it will benefit by some on camera colour compensation/correction.

Thanks for posting Evan

Art you should have taken my WS. I think you'd enjoy crossprocessed garage glam
 
frugal
Yes I remembered that from the workshop which is why I wanted to know how he got such good results from a "scan". Now that he's explained his technique it makes more sense.

I tried some scanning just to see for myself how bad it would be and because I knew of a couple ways I could get it to not do any (or only minimal) colour correction. Neither method I tried worked very well. But I suppose this also goes back to the workshop in your comments that it's better to try something for yourself and see the results than to just have someone tell you what they'll be.
 

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