So freaking pissed right now

[Dan Henderson]

Well I texted the model and told her that I had an incident while developing. We both laughed and pitched some ideas to each other. We're going to spend all day next Saturday driving around doing different outdoor locations and come back here to shoot some studio stuff.

I already have 20 sheets of Provia on order as well as a 50 sheet box of 4x5 Arista that I plan on blowing though that day. And I won't make the same mistake twice.

I'm glad I didn't pull out 5x7 Speed and shoot my last 4 sheets of EPR like I wanted to. We all know that CANNOT be replaced.

So now you get to spend another day with a gorgeous model. Wish my bad luck was this good!

But seriously, E. Von Hough's advice is well heeded. Photography is part science and part art. The science part should never be attempted when there is anything that can divert your total attention and concentration to the work at hand.

[SergeiR]

So I just finished up a photo shoot with a gorgeous model, I shot my last 12 sheets of Provia with her. Along with a few rolls of Delta 400.

Anyway I get the film loaded in the racks and start developing only to notice 30 seconds in that I'm dipping it in the color developer first and not the 1st developer. WTF! I turn the lights on and say F-it, I'm going to bed. I've never done anything that stupid in the darkroom before. Now I need to buy another box and try to re shoot her.

I assume that the film was ruined even before I switched on the lights?

Nope, it wasnt ruined.. It just makes for really realy weird effect Its like almost negative (3 baths, rights?) but not quite..

[D-tach]

I already have 20 sheets of Provia on order as well as a 50 sheet box of 4x5 Arista that I plan on blowing though that day.

70 sheets on one day!? When I do portraits after +- 3 hours they loose their focus and concentration - then again, they're not professional models :-) I end up with like 6-8 sheets in that time

[Sevo]

Nope, it wasnt ruined.. It just makes for really realy weird effect Its like almost negative (3 baths, rights?) but not quite..

Not in this case. In full E6 versions (whether with extra reversal bath or exposure), starting with the colour developer would have resulted in a high contrast overexposed negative. Compact kits, like the one the OP seems to have used, mix the reversal bath fogging agent with the colour developer - missing the first developer there results in a all-black film (just as merely missing the first, and exposing or running the film through the reversal bath of a full E6 process would do).