27 June, 2024
My First use of Caffenol
There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...
21 June, 2024
How to Take a 3-D Photo with Almost Any Camera
Today, June 21st 2024, is the 3rd International Stereoscopy Day, 186 years since inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone first presented his mirror stereoscope and theory of binocular v...
8 May, 2024
Learning to Shoot Boxing Matches
Taking pictures in a boxing gym during regular training is a unique way to learn to understand when ‘the moment’ – a hit, a miss, a bob or a weave – is c...
Grant Haist claimed some time ago that you could develop film in almost anything, including pee. His words echoed across the internet and IRL when I shared the project details t...
24 March, 2024
How (not) to Reticulate
I was developing film away from my darkroom. I had assembled the essential equipment and, because I knew that untreated tap water in Brussels used to be very hard, I had made up...
13 March, 2024
A Note on the Concept of “Correct” Exposure
“My camera just nails the exposure”. How often have you heard that or a similar comment from someone praising the technical abilities of their new digital camera? Bu...
14 February, 2024
The Black and White Paper Reversal Process
I recently wrote about my adventures in RA4 colour reversal and the Pinsta pinhole camera. Once I had a workable method, I got to wondering about how difficult it might be to pe...
2 February, 2024
F-Stop Printing in the Darkroom
Although I scan all my negatives so that I can share photos online, I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I find it to be an engaging technical craft that provides endless th...
