Astoria Bridge, Cross Processed

Wonderful picture!

Lately I've started experimenting with cross-processing and have had

best results using out of date slide film processed as c41. Comments,

ratings appreciated on this image. Color shift here is not

dramatic,but I felt it was interesting, especially the sky. Thanks.

I'm not normally a fan of color shifts, but this one works for me. I like the composition here as well. I can't describe why, but this photo holds my interest. Maybe it's just that I love bridges, but I don't think that's all. Very nice.

The composition and colors are very good.i like it.

i only wonder about cross-processing. you can get the same effects of cross-processing by software, with the advantage of having full control over the result.

best robertO

Wow! Great shot.

I think the chocolate colors of the river and bridge really make this image inviting, plus a nice framing of all the posts. Cool.

You get high marks for creativity.

Did you try it with only sepia color

The cross-processing technique seems well suited for this kind of industrial landscape.

Thanks for all of the nice comments. In response to Robert, above, you probably can get the same effects in Photoshop with much better control. However, I'm really not headed in that direction. I'm getting wetter and wetter (soon will start processing my color films at home), while most of the world goes digital. I like to play with the chemicals and see what happens.

This image looked great in the thumbnail, but in the biggger view I find some obvious problems in the sky, that make me strange that nobody else pointed out before:

1.- The pixelation, specially noticeable in the sky. Maybe the result of a bad scanning...? The original one can be a good version though.

2.- The color shift on the left, down the bridge. Why is it cyan/green, while the rest of the sky is more blue? The cross processing could be an explanation for color shifting all arround, but not as spots like here...?

Aside of that, the image attracted me for beeing well composed, I think that the sticks on the foreground are a nice detail.

One suggestion: if you have the chance to reshoot, you could try to do it with a longer exposure, to make the water look more flattened (I'm thinking on one of the lasts PoW: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1281492

I think you cleverly used the lines to strngthen the photo. The perspective grabs your eye and pulls it inside.
I especially like the contrast between the sharp bridge and watercolor-like sky.
Bravo!

Excellent

Beautiful

Very nice result! It has beautiful composition, and really like the dramatic colors.

 

Coincidently, I've also been testing cross processing E6 to C41.

 

Cheers

Stik

Otherworldly and strange. What might just look like a muddy river is saved by the brown tone of the bridge and the steel-colored sky, not to mention the spikes in the foreground. Very interesting shot.

Excellent colors... and I can't beleive you shot this with that appauling Canon 22-55mm lens to boot! I ditched mine after the first roll of film. Did you use a polarzing filter by chance?

Todd, yes I did use a polarizer and yes the Canon 22-55 is an appalling lens. Fortunately, with cross-processing, quality of lens is not a huge issue. For 35mm, I pretty much shoot with my Leica and Voigtlander--for which I have three good lenses (Voigtlander 15mm and 25mm, Leica 40mm). I have been meaning to buy a Canon 24mm and ditch the zoom, but . . . Thanks for your comment.

little bit to little contrast and saturation in my opinion, but good

The process that you used seems to produce the same effect as the "solarization" phenomenon in daguerreotype images. I like it! You should check out the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new daguerreotype exhibit.

Not sure about the colors. B/w works better imo.