One of my favorite things to do when shooting film is to cross process a slide film.
And just in case you didn’t know cross processing simply means processing your film in the wrong chemicals. For example, if you shoot a slide film and instead of developing it in the standard E6 chemicals you process your film in C41 chemicals which are normally used for processing negative film.
The process of developing slide film in C41 chemicals produces interesting and unexpected colors, a higher level of contrast and lots more grain. (Developing a negative in E6 chemicals is somewhat more difficult but should be quite interesting to try one day)
I think for me, the most attractive feature about x-processing is that I can never imagine what the picture is going to look like.
But even better, combining cross-processing with a Holga always produces something totally weird and unexpected. Great!
17/11/2009 at 5:31 am Permalink
Cool pics! I love this technique. I like experimenting with different films but i find Kodak works best. I tried color neg film in E6 the other day – it looks like transparency film with crazy colors =D
13/12/2009 at 1:58 pm Permalink
I tell everyone this: best E-6 film for cross processing is slide duplicating film. it is tungsten based and i guess the whole negative thing affects the color balance because you get very clean contrasty colors in daylight. I assume any tungsten slide film would do the same