Gave my first go at film souping now that I’m developing all my film at home. Film souping is when film gets mixed with harsh chemicals to cause discoloration and other effects. There’s a bunch of recipes for it online and I decided to go with dish soup and lime juice. I mixed these up and placed the film in the solution for several hours.

It’s important to note that with film soup, don’t send it to a lab to process without asking first. This is because a souped film can ruin chemistry and affect the development of other people’s rolls. One of the things I saw mentioned was to boil the water first, in hindsight this was a bad idea. I didn’t let the water cool down enough and it made the film incredibly thin. I noticed this as I was unspooling the film to develop it.

The results still turned out really cool. Plenty of color swirls but the heat did ruin the underlying film a bit so the original colors are way off.

I plan on doing more film soup experiments with the next batch of chemistry I mix up!

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