Cross processed Portra?

[Ruhayat]

A book I just read mentioned that negative film when cross processed gives muted colours, but it didn't provide any sample photos. I'm intrigued. I see lots of cross processed slide film, but I don't think I've seen cross processed negatives. Would anyone have any examples they could share?

Reason is I'm wondering if cross processing Fuji 400H would give me the kind of dreamy pastel look that is achieved by some wedding photographers shooting that film in medium format. I tried overexposing it to ISO125, which is apparently what they did, but didn't get the same results.

 

[Sylvester]

Change a bit the colours in Photoshop? This is colour negative, who can say your images shouldn't be in pastel? It's not like chrome, where you can compare on your screen and on the light table... The Portra line is meant to be scanned and then processed a bit...

 

[celluloidprop]

It's much less common because the orange base layer doesn't necessarily make for muted colors but low contrast.

One flickr discussion with examples: http://www.flickr.com/groups/crossprocessing/discuss/81487/

 

[Mr_Toad]

Here's a link to pretty good discussion...albeit a front for the Lomography conspiracy.

http://crossprocessing.info/

Still, it has links to a nice variety of completed images....from FILM, no less!!!

 

[Ruhayat]

Thanks very much for the replies!