11-17-10 – Artistic Bent

I’m not sure what you mean by cross-scanning. Setting the scanner for positive film, scanning negatives, or vice-versa, then inverting in post? I’d lean towards allowing that, but haven’t had any artistic success the few times I’ve tried it. I’ll let the modmins rule on that. I have scanned c-41 process BW as color to pick up a nice sepia tone on some of my sprocketography, to no complaints.

Yep. Shooting a roll of, say, slide film, then scanning in the negatives as black and white negatives, or shooting B&W film and scanning it in as colour film. It gets similar results to cross-processing.
To be honest, I have only done it once by accident, and I am not sure I would use the results. I just want to know if the possibility is there.

For some odd reason, my scanner actually does a better job with black and white film if I tell it it’s b/w slide film, then invert it afterward in GIMP. Not sure why, but I don’t see that or similar scanning processes as a problem in terms of rules.

Or just a note “all normal farktography rules apply”.

Pardon me for saying so, but why not simplify? Entries that are previous non-top 10ers most likely wouldn’t fair any better here than in any original contest (else they’d have struck a chord in the original). The odds that something new on the order of top 10 wouldn’t be entered are slim to none.

I think there’s absolutely no evidence to support that statement, to be honest. We’ve had a number of contests that allowed previously used entries (including and especially our anniversary themes, but there have been others, too), and some recycled entries did quite a bit better than their original contest, some did worse, and some did somewhere close to the same. Fark voters are notoriously fickle, and an image that might not have fared well in one thread (because it was up against a certain set of photos where it didn’t stand out as well, or because the moon was full, or because most of the voters that week had a chip on their shoulders about monochrome/color or the aspect ratio of the photo) may absolutely yield different results some other time (because it was up against a different set of photos where it stood out better or worse, or because the moon was crescent, or because most of the voters that week had a chip on their shoulders about flower/nature photos). You just never know what the voters are going to do.