Steve's Old School Shot Of The Moment - #1

Today I am starting a recurring post - Steve's Old School Shot Of The Moment. These posts will include some of my old photographs that aren't currently on the website. This will give me the chance to look through my archives, and to share some of my old favorites.

The first two come from my first roll of crossed-processed film. Cross-processing is when a film is processed in different chemicals than it normally calls for. Typically you process slide film (E-6) as negative film (C-41) or vice-versa. Slide to negative is easier and more consistent. That is what these pictures are. Most likely Fuji Sensia slide film processed as C-41. I overexpose the film 2 stops when doing this technique.

This first shot is of my beautiful wife Katie (a.k.a Kiki, Catherine, Mom, etc.). The shot was taken in Ohio at Clifton Gorge in 1998. At that time I was taking photo classes in Indianapolis with Steve Floro who also taught in Columbus. His classes met here for a field trip. Steve was the one who showed me photography could be art. Thank you Steve!

The cool thing about cross-processing is that the colors really pop! You also get a color shift and some funky happenings around shadow edges. This is one of the reasons I still love film so much!