Meaning of bleach bypass | Babel Free

Definitions

A film laboratory technique where the bleach stage during the development of a color film is skipped, resulting in images with increased contrast and graininess.

Examples

“The bleach-bypass really captured the light of Mexico City, especially given that we shot the commercial on a very grey and overcast day. […] The bleach-bypass process I find has a spiritual quality that I relate to and really love.”

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