7 | FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
Try cross-processing
Create interesting and unpredictable colour shifts for exciting results, with
Ben Hawkins
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If the idea of pushing (shooting at a faster ISO than the box speed) and pulling (shooting at a lower ISO) your film appeals to your inner anarchist, cross-processing may just send you into overdrive. This experimental technique involves processing your film in the ‘wrong’ chemicals and can result in some truly wild and wacky shifts in colour and contrast. It’s also unpredictable and no two rolls of cross-processed film will ever look exactly the same, even if they’re processed by the same lab.