A scene I just happened to capture.

This is from my experimental roll of Extrachrome 100VS which was

cross processed in c-41 chemistry. Oriognally I was just out to

shoot colors so I could see how the film responded.

Then these two guys came along.

Two questions -

1) Does the photo itself work?

2) Do the colors help any?

TIA

Interesting that you should post this now as I was just talking to the lab I use about cross processing E-6 and C-41 and was thinking of experimenting with a roll or 2.

It is an interesting shot, especially for an experiment. The colors are amazing and the super high contrast highlights them even more. The focus seems a little soft to me and the face in the car does blend in with the brick wall a but much. It could work, perhaps, as a color study.

Would you mind posting 1 or 2 more from this roll (or e-mail them to me) so I can take a look and get some ideas for when I try this?

Thanks -

I actually got this from "The Art of Wedding Photography" by Bambi Cantrell.

The basic idea is that you shoot the Ektachrome 100VS as rated. Do not push or pull it. Then have it developed in C-41 as if it was a 100 speed C-41 film.

The really cool thing is that you can CHOOSE to X-process or not.

The only thing I have heard that you need to do is have the lab "print from skin". I don't know if my lab did this. I don't think they did as these are machine prints. But I have seen pics where the adjust the print for skin tones and the effects are pretty nice.

I'm gonna attach a couple of pics for you to look at.

I'll add that these were done in open sunlight for the most part. It is VERY sunny here. And the area where I did this has a lot of bright colors. The blue of the wall in these pictures is a bright blue in real life. I find that this process seems to push colors one way or the other. They become darker or brighter. No room for subtlety.

Oh, and anything close to black like royal blue turns to a solid black, and anything close to white goes pure white. The truck in the picture is actually fairly dirty and scratched. But the white of the truck just gets blown out. Pretty cool.

And another one...

And yet another one....