A love affair with analogue photgraphy and darkroom printing
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Negative Lab Pro
I’m not much of a colour film shooter. Not becuase I don’t like colour photos, I really do, but because the film is generally more expensive and it’s more of a pain to develop. Well under my old development regime where I didn’t care about temp for BnW, colour was more a hassle. As I…
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Country Victoria
Every Easter I go camping with a large group of people. It used to be that we were in our 20s, we would drink all day and night then pass out and start it all again the next day. These days we all have kids ranging from 2 weeks old (my new little one) to…
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Split Grade Printing with Pepper the Dog
Split grade printing with Pepper the Dog.
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Accountability and a bit of history.
This post was partly inspired by Steve’s over at https://photieplace.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/not-intentional/ Check his blog out, the images are wonderful and his writing thoughtful. I’ve been taking pictures with intention since 2010, and playing with film photography since 2016. Like many I grew up before the digital age, but I didn’t learn photography or have a basic…
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Testing FP4: A New Hope
As I progress further in my film journey I have been reading more and more. As I have started to broaden my knowledge base I’ve realised that I have never actually performed any tests on my exposure and development. I had seen that people like to rate their films differently but unless I was “Pushing…
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Infrared film and Warmtone Paper
I tried using Ilford SFX200 with an R72 filter. It looked cool, definitely a fan but I made some mistakes in the print
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XP2 Super in Ilfosol3
Back in 2019 I shot a roll of Ilford’s XP2 super but didn’t have any C41 Chemicals to process it. Living in cambridge at the time I only had Ilfosol 3 to hand and decided to develop using Black and White chem. I had heard it works but I hadn’t actually given it a go.…
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Contact Proof Prints
A Mea Culpa on proof prints. I used to think they weren’t worth it. I was wrong.
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Colour Film
I have a problem. I get diminished film anxiety. This means that whenever I use a roll of colour film, I buy at least 2 more rolls. Sometimes 5. I also buy colour film or have had it given to me, at random intervals. “So what?” I’m hearing you say “why is this a problem?”.…
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New Website
Since I closed my previous website down in 2023, I have neglected much of my online presence. This wasn’t really a bad thing. I had moved from Cambridge, UK back to Melbourne, Australia and I really wasn’t doing much photography. In 2021 I had a daughter, and you’d think that would be cause for much…
Alexander Davenport 