#cross processing

[transhuman-priestess]

i'm still getting the hang of my new camera so i got overexcited and triple (quadruple???) exposed this frame but yknow what?

it looks bitchin

Hey if you're a fan of my work you should know i'm working on switching careers. I'm a little short on my bills this month and i'm trying to raise a bit of cash to pad me out.

You can send me money, even a few bucks, to my Cashapp, $kellanium

Thanks for reading <3

[dededos]

moon beach

[johbeil]

The road and the sky

Stunning sky seen while driving on a country road in Lazio, Italy, yesterday. Photo taken with a 2011 Sony Xperia and subjected to some digital cross processing.

[sablephotography]

Shot on Kodak Aerocolor pushed 2 stops and cross-processed in E6 chemistry with a Minolta Alpha 7 using a Maxxum AF Zoom 28-85mm f/3.5-4.5

[tansokuyoko]

satisfied

満足です。

[nariarts]

holga x-process

[liverpoollomo]

Holga Week. Street. Holga. Fuji Provia 400F.

One of the categories for Holga Week this year was "Street." I went out with no particular plan and shot randomly trying to emulate the photos I had taken in Cardigan and Aberystwyth a few months ago.

I chose Fuji Provia 400F as it was the only 400 iso film I had in my fridge (that is where I keep ALL of my films) and the day seemed a bit overcast.

I have to admit. I do like the light leaks.

[shutterfox5555]

Yashica Mat EM shot on expired Fujifilm Provia and cross-processed as E9 in Rodinal

[dmitrymax]

Fuji Sensia II 200 expired cross-process C-41

[faroukmarduk]

[thatrickmcginnis]

JAMES TENNEY, Toronto 1989 + 1991

I hadn't heard of James Tenney when I was assigned to photograph him for Musicworks, a local art music journal, by Nancy, my old editor from Nerve magazine. (It's still around today.) Tenney was born in New Mexico and studied music with Carl Ruggles, John Cage, Harry Partch and Edgard Varese, and was a peer of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, performing in their ensembles. His work would be grouped in with movements like minimalism, process music, electronic music and plunderphonics, but in the '80s he was teaching composition at York University here in Toronto, which is where I photographed him, during and after one of his classes. I knew as soon as I took out my camera that I had a lot to work with - Tenney had a striking, rugged look, and my eyes were immediately drawn to the blackboard with its musical staff and the metal chairs stamped with "Music Dept". Tenney must have liked the results, because I have a record of him buying two of my prints a couple of months later.

My first portrait shoot with composer James Tenney was made during an uncertain time in my career, when my apprenticeship had ended and I was trying to make a living and establish a photographic style. By the time I had my second shoot with Tenney, precisely two years later, I was more confident and technically capable, and booked the session at my Parkdale loft, where I hoped I could achieve something more ambitious than our first shoot. I already knew that Tenney had a great image - a kind of Marlboro Man look that I wanted to accentuate even more with harder lighting and starker compositions. Of course my earlier pictures were an inspiration, and side by side they give some sense of how much my work had moved forward in two years.

My client for my second shoot with composer James Tenney was EAR magazine, another journal devoted to left-field and avant-garde music that had been publishing since 1973. If you don't remember the late '80s it was an exciting time if you were into weird, difficult music; there was a whole new audience for this sort of thing, from jazz to noise to oddball classical and art music, and EAR had become a glossy monthly with offices in New York's West Village above the Ear Inn. When I got my assignment to photograph James Tenney it had a sponsorship deal with Absolut Vodka, which helped pay for a series of CDs that would come with the magazine. Since I knew I was shooting the cover - my first ever glossy magazine cover - I decided to go all out, shooting with cross-processed slide film: it produced a look that seems very "period" to me now - high contrast and bright primary and secondary colours, and I had put a great deal of effort into mastering it.

I was very proud of the results, and of that cover, but unfortunately the magazine was going through ultimately fatal financial problems that would see it go out of business by the end of the year. It was the end of what I remember as an exciting time, culturally, and if I'm honest I still miss the excitement I felt during that period, which provided inspiration when I needed it badly. James Tenney's work is still studied and performed, and as a teacher he was a mentor to a whole generation of younger composers. He died of lung cancer in California in 2006.

[johbeil]

Against a few photography rules

Roma Mostacciano, 2018 Olympus Trip 35 on cross-processed Lomo slide film

[sablephotography]

Gooseberry Shot on Kodak Aerocolor pushed 2 stops and cross-processed in E6 chemistry with a Minolta Alpha 7 using, presumably, a lens of some sort. Fuck if I remember dude.

[mannen]

[nariarts]

holga x-process

[liverpoollomo]

Holga Week. Nature. Holga. Fuji Provia 400F.

Of all the categories, Nature was the one that demanded the most thought. I could have easily gone to the countryside and taken a photo of a random tree or some plants. That would not have stood out and I am sure many other entrants would have done the same.

After a few days of racking my brain I remembered the old Methodist Chapel in Haydock near work. Part of the frontage has been reclaimed by ivy and the rest is quite overgrown.

Whilst taking these pics a local approached me and we had a conversation. He was under the impression that the building was listed due to a rather large organ which occupied the back wall.