This psychedelic effect came from a unique concoction.
- Throw some film into a bubbling pot of your preferred soup (or water - if you are dieting) and leave to simmer.
- Boil your film to suit your taste... If you prefer your pics al dente (i.e with not too much melted, globby colour distortion) then just a minute or two will do! If you boil for too long there won't be much left to see!
Tips: "The outer part of the film is affected more by the temperature, as the heat spreads to the rest of it from here. The longer you boil, the more film will be affected. Boiling for too long will destroy everything on the film.
The soup adds the 'unknown' aspect because it is possible that theingredients can have an affect on the film. Try milk, oil, tomatoes".
This experiment does exactly what it sounds like! The best thing is that unless the whole thing melts you can develop this normally at your favourite lab.
Bake in the oven at 150 degrees or gas mark 3 for 10 minutes
Leave to cool in the oven
Develop as normal
Mandi used Agfa Precisa (cross-processed) and it gave all the shots a slightly baked look, with a purple/blue tint and lots of grain. Other shots became greener rather than the usual orangey/brown.
Film experimentation should never be a chore but this experiment from jallcott makes doing the washing a lot more interesting.
"This basically is the result of putting the film through the washing machine before getting it developed. You end up with a slightly faded 1970s feel to the pictures plus some odd colour splodges and bits of eaten emulsion".
Sometimes the best results are stumbled upon by accident. Check out this experiment from minicooper:
"It was in 2006, we went to London on a weekend and I took my Lubi. If I'm not wrong, I was testing a Fuji Prova 400 asa, x-proc. I went to the lab to have it developed. The following day, I pick-up the roll from the lab and went to my office. I had no film scanner there, so I looked at the negatives, without taking them out from the envelope, putting them below the lamp. As I was very excited and couldn't wait more, with one hand I was standing them up, and with the other had took my digital camera, zoom it, and took a picture of the negative (still inside the envelope). I downloaded the picture to my computer, opened it on Photoshop, crtl-i (invert colors), then shift-crtl-l (autolevels) and...voila! I got the picture! I could see more or less what the result would be when I could scan the negatives at the proper scanner... but I got and amazing textured effect due to the semi-transparent paper from the envelope. It was an analogue texturing effect!"
The Risotto Effect - achieved by adding rice grains to a film, closing it up and leaving it to fester for many months. The whole thing literally came alive! The conditions inside were too wet to develop so this is a scan of the negative. The effects you can see were made by mildew spores branching out and eating away at the emulsion.