bleach bypass

English

Noun

bleach bypass

1. (photography, cinematography) 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.

   Synonyms: skip bleach, silver retention

   • 2021, Jason Wood, quoting Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema‎^[1], Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     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.

Further reading

• bleach bypass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia