Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a project that was started by Dave Whenham (@elland_in) and John Martin (@TEMLIGHTIMAGES). The project is passing a ...
Film has always been the standard I measure against on the quality and color of digital imagery. The texture of grain with higher ISO, the colors rendered from the film -- these...
10 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers
Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...
3 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 2: Developing with Caffenol (and Salt) – By Josh Vickers
After my success with reversal processing, I wanted to try my hand at making a homemade developer. Caffenol was the obvious next step, and I, being a temperamental machine fuele...
27 May, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 1: Reversal Processing with Peroxide & Vinegar – By Josh Vickers
What if you could develop and fix film using only products from the grocery store?
What if some supernatural event caused every brick-and-mortar photography store to disappear ...
I’m ashamed to say it’s been many years since I developed a film or went near a proper darkroom. I say ashamed because from secondary school onwards photography was my passion.
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Some people get the one amazing lens and spend years learning how to use it to its maximum potential. Others carefully plan out their lens purchases, making sure they get the be...
22 April, 2022
Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy
As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...
