Hey there, strangers! I’ve been away from it all for a few weeks now, but I should be easing back into my online routine soon enough. Long story short: I bought a house and moved back home to north Idaho. If you want the lon [...]

Granted, this is probably the last place you expected to see an iphone time lapse sequence, but the video below, courtesy of artpunk on flickr (who is otherwise known as Cameron, the author of The Plastic Lens), was too good not t [...]

Recently, I posted an article that introduced the basics of the optical enlarger. This video is a follow-up to that article, and I use my Beseler 67 as a visual prop for pointing out the different parts and how they work. The vide [...]

Over at The Online Photographer, Mike Johnston has been working on building a darkroom again after some time away from it. He’s been going through the various aspects of setting up a darkroom such as paint for walls and floo [...]

We haven’t done any articles about enlargers specifically, so we’ll kick things off with a very general overview. These monsters might look complicated at first sight, but they’re actually quite simple. Enlargers [...]

Polachrome. Polachrome 35 mm. film can be shot and processed on the spot in a tiny processing machine that can be carried in a camera bag along with cameras. A speedy photographer can have 36 slides processed, mounted and ready to [...]

Ilford’s Pan F Plus (which I sometimes condense to PanF+) is probably my overall favorite film. I discovered it shortly after I started shooting film and I quickly latched onto it as my “go to” film for outdoor s [...]

We recently finished up the series on developing black and white film, so I thought we could touch on color film to compare the process. Remember, with b/w we did a developer, stop bath, fix, wash, and dry. Now with C-41 (color ne [...]

photo credit: Greg Nissen Previously on Feeling Negative we’ve covered black and white film developing equipment, how to load film on reels, and an overview of [black and white] film developing chemicals. It’s about ti [...]

In the last video of this series, we talked about the chemicals needed for developing black and white film. Now that you’ve picked out your chemicals and loaded your film on the developing reel, it’s time to make the m [...]