Again, you may have to adjust the “temperature” to clean up the rest of the colors. Depending on the film and the specific color shift, you may also need to adjust the “temperature” toward yellow or blue to take care of secondary color shifts left behind.įor photos with a strong red shift, move your “tint” into the green region (away from the magenta). I usually like to leave a bit of color shift in my photos (and sometimes all of it) - if you go too far with the white balance adjustments, you’ll start to see weird colors showing up in those neutral gray or white areas.įor photos with a strong green color shift, increase your “tint” into the magenta region (or away from green).
This will adjust the white balance for you, then you can fine-tune it from there. Just find something in the photo that “should” be a neutral gray and sample it with the tool. When you get your film processed and scanned, you can adjust digitally in Lightroom, Photoshop or other image application. Most applications have a white balance tool even with cross processed film scans. Adjusting White Balanceīecause cross processing can produce some very strong color shifts you may want to consider adjusting the white point.
Because of this, you may want to increase contrast by asking the lab to push 2 or 3 stops. This makes the camera “think” that you have a faster film loaded, so it lets in less light.Ĭolor Negative Film – When cross processing color negative film, the results are typically muted, with pastel colors with little contrast. So if you’re shooting with ASA100 film, set the camera to ASA200. To underexpose by one stop, you just have to set your ASA/ISO value to double what it should be (assuming that you have a light meter on your camera). Because cross processing slide film tends to over expose the film, you may want to consider experimenting and under-exposing the film by about a stop.
Becuase of this it’s important to properly expose shots. Color Slide Film – Color slide film has a lower dynamic range than color negative film and when cross processing, it tends to boost the contrast between highlights and shadows.