There was an era in photography that we used to take a color slide film, then process it in negative film chemicals...
There was an era in photography that we used to take a color slide film, then process it in negative film chemicals and call it Cross Process. I come from that era as a photographer.
The results were highly contrasty negatives.
Fuji Velvia created bizarre blueish contrasty shots. Agfa slides were warmer tones yet still contrasty shots.
I digged into my old negatives this morning. Year was 2001. October. In studio with an old friend of mine. I body painted her skin. And shot with Agfa slide and cros processed it.
Voila scanned 16 years later. Then turned into a toned B&W shot.
As one who has done that, and a lot, I know what of you speak. :-) I used to cross-process when I needed "extreme" ISO (1600+) and when the color balance was bazar, as well. Want high contrast? Bingo! Oh yeah... When an experiment, meant many many hours and Mucho $$$ to see if you had anything, at all...
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Ah, what a time to be alive! You had to be an artist and a rocket scientist both! (And hope you did not poison yourself, as well.)
Oshi Shikigami At first I was developing the rolls myself. Then I found a lab who did it for me.
ReplyDeleteI processed 99+% of my film, over the more than half century of film photographing. Actually, most labs I knew would not allow cross processing, for various reasons. So that was always my own. Besides, I had ways of modifying processes, to produce better results, that the labs would any way.
ReplyDeleteBut it was costly, took time, and did put all the responsibility on me, for getting what the customer wanted. I managed nearly all the time. LOL
Oshi Shikigami the lab back then charged much more to do my cross process. I used Agfa. And yes it was a bit of experimental results.
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