the negative view ...

Everybody visiting my homepage and looking at my docs will recognise quickly, that I like to work with my Lomo LC-A employing crossprocessed slide films. Another technique I often combine with this is double exposures.

For the purpose I always rewind carefully the once exposed slide film completely and do the second exposure from the beginning of the film roll. Thus the combinations of captured subjects is quite accidental.

The technical guideline in using slide films for double exposures and crossprocessing is:

• load slide film with iso speed 100 
• set Lomo LC-A iso speed to 400 (is much easier for difficult light) 
• expose the entire film roll
• rewind film completely and capture the second exposures
• consider: the overlaid frames will not match
• after taking the 72 captures submit the film to the lab for development
• label it clearly with Cross C-41 or XPRO C-41
• label it clearly with "do not cut film"
• and tell the lab to push the film to iso 200 speed in development

From my experience the crossprocessing and pushing works best with Agfa precisa ct 100 slide film. A shame is, that they shut down the production of that film with the broke down of Agfa, but at the time there are enough rolls in stock at least in Germany. While Kodak slide films tend to yield a green tone in crossprocessing, the Agfa presents a soft blue toning. Of course you can manipulate that while scanning or afterwards. To the left you see two collages of scanned negative stripes. The upper one is a Kodak slide film featuring the pictures I show right now here at ipernity. The lower one is a kind of sneak preview on the pictures I will post within the next 2 - 3 weeks.

If you are not fixed to digital, try double exposures with crossprocessed slide film. I think you will enjoy it as much as I do.

- albrecht -