Just wanted to share an idea: I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but I see no existing documentation on the innernets...

I decided to try shooting forest scenery and plant macros on Kodak's Ektachrome Professional Plus 100 (EPP) slide film and Fuji Astia 100 slide film with a yellow filter over the lens. The EPP gave royal blue, purple and magenta negatives on a clear yellowish base that printed beautiful shades of warm gold, rust orange and deep yellowy green. The Astia gave bright cyan, royal blue and bright green negatives on a slightly darker thicker green base that printed intense shades of magenta-red, red, and orange. They look so cool...I will post up the shots as soon as I get them from work (I work in a print lab :D )

So: has anyone else ever done this? I plan on experimenting more (just shot Kodak's E100G with the yellow filter...want to try warming filter or orange filter too), but does anyone have recommendations of good films, filters or combinations thereof? Do share!

~Maggie

i tried portra 400NC cross processing (c41 on E6) with lots of combinations of filters on camera, filters on lights...
-i always found that 2 stop push is the minimun to clear the orange base, so after several tests i rated portra 400 to a 100 iso film, developed in 2 stop push, without any filter it gives muted cyans shadows and yellow-orange lights.
-with a combination of 85B and CC30R filters on camera it gives normal mid to light colors, and sort of muted but neutral shadows, is quite interesting effect, it reduces his dynamic range quite a few.
-with a CC60R filter on lights, and no filter on camera it gives "normal" color response where lights are falling.
In general cross processing portra 400NC at my way, tetenal 3 bath kit E6 with 12:15 minutes in FD, 7 on CD, and 7 on BLIX; rated at 100 iso, give me muted colors in general, no vibrant stuff here, shorter tonal range, i could say that with filtering on camera it quite looks like 690 polaroid film photos.