Since I haven’t been out taking photographs recently, have been digging through my photo archives instead. I have learned different techniques since 2005, when this photo of the Chicago skyline from 55th Street was taken.
This washed out photo was cross-processed in Photoshop (notice the sort of odd colors, especially in the cloud area), a technique that occasionally yields interesting results.
Originally a film technique:
Cross processing (sometimes abbreviated to Xpro) is the procedure of deliberately processing photographic film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film. The effect was discovered independently by many different photographers often by mistake in the days of C-22 and E-4. The process is seen most often in fashion advertising and band photography, and in more recent years has become associated with the Lo-fi photography movement.
Cross processing usually involves one of the two following methods: Processing positive color reversal film in C-41 chemicals, resulting in a negative image on a colorless base Processing negative color print film in E-6 chemicals, resulting in a positive image but with the orange base of a normally processed color negative
(click here to continue reading Cross processing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Oh, the title based, loosely, upon the fact that Frank L. Baum’s Emerald City of Oz was inspired by Chicago’s skyline.