Looking back at my Lightroom folders I can see that I started taking photography more seriously in 2013 when I acquired an entry-level DSLR. One of the things I really wasn’t taking to was all those menus and buttons.
Category: Experiments
Experimentation plays a huge part in film photography – it’s baked right into the medium. Explore experimental development techniques, pushing and pulling film, cross processing, redscale photography and much, much more.
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Long exposure film tests part two: ILFORD HP5 PLUS, ILFORD Delta Professional 400, ILFORD Delta Professional 3200, ILFORD SFX 200
Welcome to part two of my long exposure test results.
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How to get started with solargraphy
Every year on the summer solstice, the sun is higher in the sky than at any other time in the year.
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Building a naked Aero Ektar Speed Graphic: The AEROgraphic project part 6: conclusion and example images
Welcome to the sixth and final part of the AEROgraphic project series.
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A call for imperfection AKA walking a thin line between creation and destruction
“All styles are good except the boring kind.” – Voltaire
Let’s get a few things straight before we go any further: I did not study photography and I don’t really consider myself to be an artist.
Working as a
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Ein Vorstoß in der Dunkelkammer – Papierentwicklung mit Caffenol (und anderen Alternativen) – Dunkelkammer Alchemie – mit Mads Madison
Analoge Schwarz Weiss Filme in Hühnerbrühe entwickelt? Genug Internet für heute…
Keine alltägliche Kombination, aber laut eines Artikels den ich gefunden habe durchaus machbar. Und die Ergebnisse waren wirklich sehenswert! Natürlich weckte dies mein Interesse für alternative Entwickler.
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Working with Paper Negatives – Part 3: At work in a makeshift darkroom
Welcome to part three of my series on photography using paper negatives aka photographic paper!
If you’re new to the series, please take a moment to read the preceding parts before diving in.
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Getting to grips with darkroom printing using Caffenol (and alternatives) – Darkroom alchemy
Analog black and white film development and chicken soup. Enough internet for today?
An unusual combination, but according to an article I found online, chicken soup can be used to develop film.
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Effectively shooting Fuji Velvia 50 and other slide films
Fuji Velvia 50 is my favourite colour film. The colours, saturation and contrast are unique. It’s especially good for golden hour colours around dawn and sunset.
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How to make and experiment with homemade redscale film
This article covers making and experimenting with redscale film at home.
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Long exposure film tests part one: ILFORD PAN F+, ILFORD FP4+, ILFORD Delta 100 Professional
Long exposure film photography is a technique central to my currently ongoing photography project, Where We Meet.
Capturing the smooth extensions of water movement, contrasted with static elements of the shoreline is the key to this visual narrative.
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How to: An introduction to wet plate collodion
You might remember that we featured an interview with Robert Marsters some months ago.
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The Arista Rapid E-6 kit: a guide to developing your own slide film
Before I jump into the guide, allow me a few moments to tell you the story of how I began shooting and developing slide film.
Many years ago, while working as an employee of a transport and delivery company, I
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Reciprocity failure in landscape long exposures
Iceland. Winter.
You’re standing at the base of a waterfall, semi-numb fingers fumbling a new roll of 35mm into the back of your ice-cold SLR.
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Cheatsheet: ILFORD FP4 PLUS development times – EI 100 to EI 6400
Over the years I’ve built up a large bank of development times and schemes for many black and white films, old and new;
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Scanning film: Canon 5D Mark II vs Drum scanner vs Epson V700 with bonus Sony A7r!
Preface
This article originally appeared over at Addicted2light in November 2012 and has been kindly updated by author Gianluca Bevacqua. Gianluca’s taken a bit of time to update his initial findings with his updated DSLR “scanner”, a Sony A7r.
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Working with paper negatives – Part two: Trial by light
You’ve heard of GAS?
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Esperimenti fotografici con Fuji Instanx in bianco e nero
English version here: https://emulsive.org/experiments/black-and-white-fuji-instax-photographic-experiments
Mi chiamo WhatsBehindThat e faccio foto.
La mia prima foto e’ stata fatta con una Yashica, dopo che mio fratello mi spiego’ come leggere la tabella dei valori dietro al flash e come impostare
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Experimenting with black and white photography on colour Fuji INSTAX
Versione in Italiano e qui: https://emulsive.org/experiments/esperimenti-fotografici-con-fuji-instanx-in-bianco-e-nero
My name is WhatsBehindThat and I make photos.
I took my first shots with a Yashica film camera (after my brother explained me how to read the table of values behind the
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Working with paper negatives – Part one: A story of thrift and Magic
Film photography, or analog photography – to use a term that better encompasses other media and processes – really is a fascinating world.
To those relatively new to the world outside what is considered traditional film photography (such as myself
