I made my first experiences as a street photographer in New York in the 1990s. During this time I learned a lot about New York …
Read more3 simple lessons: What I saw (and learned) shooting street photography in 1990s New York
It’s the beginning of 2021 and COVID is still running full force. I am a freelance corporate photographer and COVID-19 has decimated my business. So …
Oh … well, this is more of a story of how I quit film and then went back to it again. You see, I was …
Ever since I started shooting medium format film, I’ve been searching for a favourite film stock and I think I may have found it in …
On Christmas Eve I polished up my Vivitar Powershot Point and Shoot 35mm camera that I rescued from the recycle bin at work and loaded …
Shot 100 years ago: Developing Kodak Premo-Pack 4×5 film from a Rochester Premo B camera ~ by Salvador Busquets One of the most fascinating things …
Read moreShot 100 years ago: Developing Kodak Premo-Pack 4×5 film from a Rochester Premo B camera
Do you remember the first camera that made you fall in love or impress you? By this, I mean a time when you knew nothing …
The bulk loader was a deal and came with mystery film. It had a label that said ‘Plus X 125’ so I loaded a small …
Autumn is always a great time of the year up there in the mountains. You can be pretty sure to find great colors and different …
Agfa Scala 200X is a black and white transparency film, well known in its day for being the only option for generating slides in monochrome. …
Read moreShooting expired Agfa Scala 200X as a negative film: the Historic Port of Santos, Brazil
On an early grey wet and gloomy Friday morning I walk through Cape Town’s Thibault Square in search of Riviera Salon. With the weather hanging …
Read moreAfter 56 years: The last days of Riviera Salon on Kodak Portra 400
This ‘five frames’ might more properly be called ‘eight frames’ because it was inspired by an idea in the autumn of 2019 to dig out …
There are a few days left for 2020 (well, 2 at the time of publication) and like 2019, we didn’t see any film stocks being …
Here’s listicle #2 for this year, and it’s 100% focused on darkroom alchemy. From bringing back Kodachrome (development, that is!), to RA-4 color printing, to …
Read moreEMULSIVE’S most popular darkroom related articles of 2020
If you’re celebrating, Merry Christmas! If you’re not, welcome to the end of a year which, well, that’s enough about that. I made a promise …
In order to reduce the number of folks that are visiting Yosemite National Park due to Covid-19, only a handful of park passes were being …
What an amazing way to visualise the world. I have pursued the joys and wonders of film photography and darkroom work for some decades now …
5 Frames of Kodak VISION3 500T 5219 developed in RA-4 chemistry (35mm Format / EI 500 / Lomography Sprocket Rocket) – by Steve Jones Like …
When it comes to double exposure photography, I’ve never really seemed to get it quite right. Whether that is by not underexposing enough or just …
2020 is a different year in every way. So how about using a technical ISO 50 film and doing a reverse process to get a …
