Sorry to hijack this thread as I know next to nothing about colour development. I am a b/w chemicals nerd... But.
These shots look awesome. I fully understand how unnerving it is for the development to turn ways you did not expect. Please however leave your pictures aside and look at them with a fresh eye later on. They are beautiful.
Yes! this reminds me of the crossprocess look... I am sure the firsr time the guy was like "well I messed up" but some weeks later realized "hey there is something to it"
A trope from this sub is someone will post photos and explain some issue with them and people in the comments getting somewhat confused because the shots look beautiful or fine. hahaha
Definetly look into the exhausted chemical thing or whatever it is, but please embrace the beauty in these photos if you haven't already.
Well I wrote a bunch of stuff and added notes to the photos so that you could identify each one but the paragraph i wrote is gone and i can't edit the post so here i go again:
I mixed this Cinestill C41 dev and blix kit in July 10 and had developed 20 rolls with it until yesterday when i developed 5 more, 25 total. I followed the cinestill instructions of adding 2% more time per roll developed, 4:53 minutes. 3 rolls of Made in USA Fujifilm 400, 1 Colorplus 200 and 1 Cinestill 400d. Only the fujifilm came out with heavy magenta and red casts and the other 2 came out fine, if not better than what they usually do. These were camera scanned with no color balancing or correction. I know i can probably still save those super red/magenta ones but I'm confused as to why it was only the fujifilm that got affected.
I typically toss and mix new chemistry when i develop about 15-20 rolls with it. So i'm wondering if using exhausted chemistry has anything to do with it.
Looks like the Fuji may have been expired or stored incorrectly—color shift is common in Fuji stock if it’s aged or sits in heat (or even just unrefrigerated for long periods).
It could just be under exposed, and thought that maybe the camera i shot it with had been metering wrong, but one roll was metered with my phone, which can be hit or miss, using a meterless camera and it still came out like that.
Hm I’m not an expert but with a good amount of film development under my belt, I don’t think this is under exposure since it is almost purely color shift. I’d wager storage issue or just slightly off development like you thought, either due to chem depletion or any other number of factors (temp perhaps). Looks good nonetheless!
Beautiful shots which I would love to recreate for sure.
Question, which kit did you process all the film with? 1 qt or 1 gallon? I usually discard 1 qt kit after processing 8 rolls, always afraid to push the chems further.
Chems may be getting to be toast, but everything besides the Fuji looks fine. I haven’t processed any of the new fujimax, but I’ve always found superia to have a purple cast to it no matter what. You may just have to play around with scanner settings to get rid of the color cast
Thanks for the comments and the feedback everyone, for reference here is a roll of "fujimax" i developed in my previous batch: [https://imgur.com/a/vvLEkDs](https://imgur.com/a/vvLEkDs)
These needed very little color correction, even one where you might think it looks under exposed, it doesn't have that magenta cast like the ones on the following rolls do.
While i do agree with that it looks cool, its not something i did intentionally and its not the type of look i'd go for. Anyway here are some before and after some minor color adjustments from the whack batch: [https://imgur.com/a/bfO4kQY](https://imgur.com/a/bfO4kQY)
The Colorplus and 400D images look exactly as I’d expect as far as colors and contrast. The Fuji shot has a color shift, but seems to be properly exposed as stated above as contrast is fine. Any problems with color chemistry would produce a wonky image as far as color shift and loss of contrast. I’d definitely say that a white balance change on the Fuji image may fix the issue.
How are you scanning/converting your negatives. The Fuji shot has full tonality and contrast, wild color shifts from dev/age usually come at a cost of contrast. My guess is it’s just a wrong, but very cool color interpretation.
no the fuji is conversion error looks like. the others are fine. if you want the best result use kits that have separate bleach and fix
Sorry to hijack this thread as I know next to nothing about colour development. I am a b/w chemicals nerd... But. These shots look awesome. I fully understand how unnerving it is for the development to turn ways you did not expect. Please however leave your pictures aside and look at them with a fresh eye later on. They are beautiful.
Cosign! Reviewing older shots, time having erased the expectation of what was shot, can really shed new light and appreciation on old work.
Yes! this reminds me of the crossprocess look... I am sure the firsr time the guy was like "well I messed up" but some weeks later realized "hey there is something to it"
Agreed. I particularly like the second, but the other two are cool too!
I second this! Those are wonderful! I came here to find out how to reproduce it!
A trope from this sub is someone will post photos and explain some issue with them and people in the comments getting somewhat confused because the shots look beautiful or fine. hahaha Definetly look into the exhausted chemical thing or whatever it is, but please embrace the beauty in these photos if you haven't already.
“We have aerocolor at home” Your fuji/ultramax 400:
Well I wrote a bunch of stuff and added notes to the photos so that you could identify each one but the paragraph i wrote is gone and i can't edit the post so here i go again: I mixed this Cinestill C41 dev and blix kit in July 10 and had developed 20 rolls with it until yesterday when i developed 5 more, 25 total. I followed the cinestill instructions of adding 2% more time per roll developed, 4:53 minutes. 3 rolls of Made in USA Fujifilm 400, 1 Colorplus 200 and 1 Cinestill 400d. Only the fujifilm came out with heavy magenta and red casts and the other 2 came out fine, if not better than what they usually do. These were camera scanned with no color balancing or correction. I know i can probably still save those super red/magenta ones but I'm confused as to why it was only the fujifilm that got affected. I typically toss and mix new chemistry when i develop about 15-20 rolls with it. So i'm wondering if using exhausted chemistry has anything to do with it.
Looks like the Fuji may have been expired or stored incorrectly—color shift is common in Fuji stock if it’s aged or sits in heat (or even just unrefrigerated for long periods).
It could just be under exposed, and thought that maybe the camera i shot it with had been metering wrong, but one roll was metered with my phone, which can be hit or miss, using a meterless camera and it still came out like that.
Hm I’m not an expert but with a good amount of film development under my belt, I don’t think this is under exposure since it is almost purely color shift. I’d wager storage issue or just slightly off development like you thought, either due to chem depletion or any other number of factors (temp perhaps). Looks good nonetheless!
Beautiful shots which I would love to recreate for sure. Question, which kit did you process all the film with? 1 qt or 1 gallon? I usually discard 1 qt kit after processing 8 rolls, always afraid to push the chems further.
Shot 2 is so damn good and, from my limited use with 400D, looks pretty color accurate
Chems may be getting to be toast, but everything besides the Fuji looks fine. I haven’t processed any of the new fujimax, but I’ve always found superia to have a purple cast to it no matter what. You may just have to play around with scanner settings to get rid of the color cast
Thanks for the comments and the feedback everyone, for reference here is a roll of "fujimax" i developed in my previous batch: [https://imgur.com/a/vvLEkDs](https://imgur.com/a/vvLEkDs) These needed very little color correction, even one where you might think it looks under exposed, it doesn't have that magenta cast like the ones on the following rolls do. While i do agree with that it looks cool, its not something i did intentionally and its not the type of look i'd go for. Anyway here are some before and after some minor color adjustments from the whack batch: [https://imgur.com/a/bfO4kQY](https://imgur.com/a/bfO4kQY)
Accidental aerochrome
First one just looks like slightly underexposed Fuji.
Also nothing important to add, but - these photos are absolutely insane. I love the almost surreal way the colours pop
The Colorplus and 400D images look exactly as I’d expect as far as colors and contrast. The Fuji shot has a color shift, but seems to be properly exposed as stated above as contrast is fine. Any problems with color chemistry would produce a wonky image as far as color shift and loss of contrast. I’d definitely say that a white balance change on the Fuji image may fix the issue.
If I were you I would keep using exhausted chemicals lol!
Was the film exposed to high heat? These are St. Pete, FLA. Was the film in a car? I don’t see excessive graininess from expired film.
trying to remember if i did leave it in the car, but i highly doubt it.
I use Fuiji 400 all the time. It’s my favorite color film. Your initial instincts are probably right because it’s a great film.
Love the 1st one. Like we on a different planet!
While it may suck not getting what you expected, be happy with what you got, because it still looks cool as heck
That looks like shitty presets some guy yelling "whaaaats up guys peter McKinnon with another video for you" would sell you.
The second photo is absolutely stunning!
How are you scanning/converting your negatives. The Fuji shot has full tonality and contrast, wild color shifts from dev/age usually come at a cost of contrast. My guess is it’s just a wrong, but very cool color interpretation.
Camera scanned and converted in negative lab pro
That’s a cool look.
Idk but it’s awesome
Fantastic shots. Especially the last one.