Alternative Process Archives

10 June, 2022

Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers

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

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

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 ...

26 May, 2022

5 Sheets of Cámara Galletita Lumen Photos – By Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

The Cámara Galletita Lumen is always a bit difficult for me to explain, but it's antecedents are, I think, a bit more straightforward. I first heard of the Cámara Galletita in ...

5 May, 2022

Finding Kodachrome and Bringing Back Color (the Digital Way)- By Zheng Li

By Zheng Li

Some of us know Kodachrome from the iconic Afghan Girl photo by National Geographic's Steve McCurry. Some of us might even have watched the 2017 movie of the same name, about an...

24 February, 2022

Sabatier Effect with a B&W Negative and Color RA4 Process – by Séverine Chauveau

By Séverine Chauveau

I am a photographer based in Reunion Island (a French territory in the Indian Ocean), and for a few years now, my practice has been focused on experimental photography. I really...

1 February, 2022

Positive Memories – Creating Positive Images Inspired by the Photobooth Process – By Andy Smale

By Andrew Smale

When I was young, every bus or railway station, airport, Woolworths, Boots, shopping centers and department stores all had a Photo booth. These booths allowed the sitter to hav...

18 November, 2021

Experimenting In My C-41 Developing – Dance Developing – By Holly Gilman

By Holly Gilman

Trying out colour developing really got my creative juices flowing and I’ve had a fair few experimental ideas that I want to try out. I warn you now, this is not an article for ...

Geoff Chaplin on Andato a Monte
"only I understand my photos." Like you I photograph for myself, for the pleasure of taking, developing, and looking at…
Geoff Chaplin on Vernality Redux – My Photo of the Year 2025
Great shot and perfect exposure!
Sergio Palazzi on Andato a Monte
Le fortificazioni atesine sono soggetti stimolanti. Belle foto. (oh, stavolta scrivamo in italiano così il traduttore lo usano gli altri)

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