At the Royal Courts of Justice, London

These were taken using Velvia colour slide film that was cross-processed, but the lab did such a poor job of scanning them that they looked really fake and unrealistic, like something you'd get with an Instagram effect, so I completely desaturated them in Photoshop (i.e. made them greyscale) to at least bring back some of the detail. It was a local lab that I suspect has not done many x-pro scans before. If I ever get a scanner myself I may try to do a better job and republish them in colour the way they were intended to be.
The original lab-scan version is here: goo.gl/PnXWM

Photographer:
buckshot
Uploaded:
2012-08-03
Tags:
cab. car clouds court flag greyscale landmark poor-quality scan taxi tourism union jack vodafone x-pro
Camera:
Lomography Diana F+ (available in our shop)
Film:
Fujichrome Velvia RVP 100, 120 roll film
City:
London
Country/region:
United Kingdom
Year:
2012
Time:
noon
Albums:
London Calling (X-pro to Greyscale)

4 Comments

  1. vici
    vici ·

    I'm glad you found a way to salvage your shots. They're very nice.

  2. kneehigh85
    kneehigh85 ·

    If you want to send them to me, I dont mind having a go at re-scanning them. Warning - I am a bit of a scanning newbie and not that good at it.

  3. buckshot
    buckshot ·

    @kneehigh85: Thanks for your generous likes and kind offer! But I guess I'll just write this roll off as a lesson learned, i.e. never to cross-process Velvia again...!

  4. kneehigh85
    kneehigh85 ·

    Don't write it off! Cross processed Velvia does look amazing most of the time. Just give it another go!

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