8 October, 2023
My First Major Development Fail
I was really excited to go for a studio day! I’d never used anything other than natural light for photos so far, and I was going to get to learn the effects of different ...
This post is intended to focus more on my slow journey into large format photography and hopefully give some insight to those who are “large format curious” like I...
1 October, 2023
Easing into Home Development
Well it’s happening, I’m now fully down the rabbit hole of B&W film development. It was inevitable really, as I continued to take more photos on film and espec...
21 September, 2023
Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film
I’m over it now, the crushing disappointment that is. And there’s a caveat – the film was expired. This was the brief: twelve shots consisting of three portr...
First, a disclaimer: This is flash novices experience. I confess, that I have just touched the tip of iceberg with flash photography and there might be a lot of aspects that I h...
In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I've been increasingly keen to try...
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...
