All Through a Lens: A Podcast About Film Photography (All Through a Lens)

On this episode of Dev Party we’ve got a guest! It’s Alan Marx (@alanbeingalan on IG)! He joins us in “The Futures” because Vania developed a roll of film that he shot.

That was a roll of expired Fuji Neopan 1600 that he shot with a Pentax K1000. Vania developed the roll in PMK 1+2+100; 12 mins. And here are two shots from it:

 

Meanwhile, Eric shot with a new old 270mm brass lens on Fomapan 100. He devved in FA-1027. Here they are:

 

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On a very special edition of Dev Party, we are on location! We walk you through our steps of sensitizing watercolor paper with cyanotype emulsion. We then expose them in some very inconvenient ways.

Eric does his on a hike, while Vania relaxes at home.

And then comes the washing.

 

Here are Eric’s hike photos:

 

And here are some of his results:

Vania did some as well! Here are some of her making them:

And here are her results:

 

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We’re talking to Travis Cannady (@travis_cannady on IG), photographer and publisher of Better Off Zine. For our main feature, we’ll tell you the story of the nearly-forgotten, yet wildly influential Margretha Mather (@betteroffzine). And that means we’ll have to talk about Edward Weston too, so… apologizes all around. We’ve also a zine review and maybe even the answering machine. 

Travis Cannady

Along with being a film photographer and lab technician, our guest today, Travis Cannady is a zine maker. He creates and publishes his own, but he also does something pretty remarkable. He puts out a zine called Better Off. Each issue, the entire zine is dedicated to a single photographer. It’s the zine equivalent of a solo-show. Or really, it’s how some early photography periodicals used to do things. We’ve got him here, so let’s talk his ear off.

IG: @travis_cannady

IG: @betteroffzine

Web: traviscannady.com

Buy Better Off Zine: betteroffzine.com

Here are some of his photos:

Margrethe Mather (and That Other Guy)

The story of Margrethe Mather is not a simple story to tell. She was not a simple woman, nor a simple photographer. She was an anarchist in every sense of the word and held neither gods nor masters above her. Though wildly creative, she had little ambition for self-promotion, once telling Edward Weston, to leave her unremembered, to “pretend that I didn’t exist.”

In biographies of Edward Weston prior to the 1980s, if she is mentioned at all, Margrethe Mather is hardly more than a footnote. She was thought of as a woman, often naked, who posed for the great Edward Weston. The story of the two of them together had been consumed into his story alone. And it is our job to separate them. But that is no easy task.

However, by Imogen Cunningham’s reckoning, “in artistic matters Margrethe was, of course, the teacher. Edward, the pupil.” Margrethe’s influence upon Weston can hardly be overstated. He followed her lead, and sometimes flat out copied her style.

They were friends, companions, lovers, collaborators and ultimately estranged. Their relationship was in many ways mutually toxic. But since humans are always complicated, it was also mutually essential to their growth as artists.

Here are some of Margrethe’s photos:

 

And here are some of Weston’s photos taken of and with Margrethe:

The Center for Creative Photography issue we reference is available here: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/641064

You can borrow Artful Lives by Beth Gates Warren online here: https://archive.org/details/artfullivesedwar0000warr/page/n7/mode/2up

We also recommend: Margrethe Mather & Edward Weston; A Passionate Collaboration also by Beth Gates Warren.

There are no other books about Margrethe Mather. There are a shit ton of books about Edward Weston.

Zine Review

Fool Me Once, Fool You Twice by Tee Ferguson

This is highly saturated, full color, 88 page perfect bound zine made up entirely of double exposures, all of which happened in-camera. She’d shoot an entire roll, re-roll it and shoot it again. This allowed for happenstance and serendipity to work their magic. 

IG: @tee.ferguson

Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/teeonfilm

 

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On this - our last episode of the year - Vania tells us all about the Surfbort show she shot. Eric talks a little about ending a long ass trip with one final roll of film.

Vania managed to shoot Fuji Neopan 1600 at 400iso in her Minolta Hi-Matic - and so she had to pull it two stops. Wild, huh?

Meanwhile, Eric shot some expired Plus-X in the Mamiya RB67.

Here are Vania's pics:

And here are Eric's:

 

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And we’re back! It’s been a wonderful little break, but it’s even better to be back in the studio and chitty some chat.

On this episode, we’ll be talking to photographer and collector Jordan Tiberio (@jordantiberio on IG)! We’ll also consider how sound interacts with our work and we’ll talk about a couple of songs that have a little to do with photography. There’s also zine reviews and some random catching up.

Jordan Tiberio

Jordan Tiberio grew up in Rochester, and began seriously shooting photography at 15. Through her work, she strives to find the odd in the ordinary. Her work, which is mostly in color, walks a thin line between timeless reality and beautiful fantasy. She’s done commercial work for the New Yorker, Vox, Teen Vogue, and Refinery 29. 

Jordan is also a collector of vintage and antique photos – and we’ll talk to her a bit about that, too. 

Web: www.jordantiberio.com

IG: @jordantiberio

IG: @anothersmemory

Here are some of her film photos:

And here are some of her vintage collection:

 

 

Listening to Images

Photography is a visual medium. We look through the viewfinder to take the picture. We view the negatives while scanning or printing, and in the end, we see the final product – the photograph. While our other senses are there, they’re not exactly working overtime.

We can feel the weight of the camera, the film while loading in the dark bag, the print in our hands. We can smell the developing chemicals (careful!). We can taste the nasty lickum strip on old 120 rolls. But what role does hearing play in our photography? 

Here are the two photos of ours that we discussed:

 

And the two by other photographers that we talked about:

 

Zine Reviews!

We reviewed three this time around:

The Lost Show by Ben Fey: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1104292718/the-lost-show-photography-zine

Views of Tucscon, Issue Five: https://www.kikiewilkins.com/

Film and the Girl by Jennifer Stamps: https://filmandthegirl.com/shop/yhtdlvkqwpom9wpy8m5b7ijqv7f1tf

 

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On this episode of Dev Party, Vania and Eric (@surfmartian and @conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) talk about going back to locations shot long ago.

Vania developed Kodak Ektachrome in one of Cinestill’s slide film developers (and once she’s experimented with it more, we’ll do an episode about it). Here are her shots:

 

 

Meanwhile, Eric revisited a couple of places that he had shot before. When he first shot these spots, he used a Holga with some sort of expired Fuji slide film xpro’d in C-41 a decade ago.

Ten years later, he returned with a Graflex and Fomapan 100 devved in FA-1027. Here they are, side by side.

 

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There are a few different ways to develop 4×5 sheets without a darkroom. We talk about three of the most popular and pick our favorite.

We look at the Steerman Press tank, the 20th Century Camera Reel, and the Mod 54 Reel.

While the latter two use Paterson Tanks, the Steerman Press Tank is it’s own thing.

Which will we like better? Who will attain the lofty goal of being good enough for the likes of us? Listen ad find out!

 

Here are the photos that Vania developed with the Steerman Press Tank:

 

Here are the photos that Eric developed with the 20th Century Camera Reel:

 

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On this episode, we’ve got tips from listeners, a call with Iowa Amy, how to do your own tri-chromes, we’ll talk about a couple of pictures we took, there’s zine reviews and so much more.

We first check in with each other. Vania is looking for inspiration, but realizes it’s been there all along. Eric just wanted some snow. Sort of. Vania talks about how the camera is her way of interacting, while Eric realizes that he’s getting old.

Those who bought the Slow Meow film are thanked, and those interested in the ECN-2 process are invited to find out via the kits Eric is making: Here.

Moving on once more to the answering machine, we asked listeners to call in with their film photography tips. Just one, and make it quick.

The response was great! We received such advice as “don’t be afraid” and “every frame is a lesson” to the practical advice like “throw away the lens cap” and “get an immersion heater.” It was a lovely mix. Thanks to all who called in!

Vania and Eric gave their own tips as well. Obviously.

We then gave a call to Amy Blessing. You might know her as @iowaamy on IG. She was in the first American Colors show in St. Louis and is working on a project and book documenting towns along the Mississippi River in Iowa.

If you’re not familiar with her work, it explores the empty spaces of small town, Midwestern life. While many will often overlook this part of the country, Amy and her photography embody it.

We talked to her about her rural work, and shooting in the Midwest in general.

DIY Tri-Chromes! After the call, we dig into how to shoot your own tri-chromes! These are the color photos that are actually created by three black & white photos layered together.

Here’s a quick rundown:

First, you’ll need some panchromatic black and white film. Let’s just use Tri-X or T-Max or basically anything that isn’t Ortho. Something fast works best. Get yourself a camera, a tripod and a red, green and blue filter. These can be cheaply procured in a color filter set, or more expensively procured individually as filters with the Wratten numbers of 29, 61, and 47 (red, green and blue).

Find a subject – something with various colors represented. Set up the camera on the tripod and take three photos – the first through the red filter, the second through the green, and the last through the blue. I do them in this order so I can remember them when it comes time to scan. Make sure to not move the camera even a little. You want three identical pictures.and you will be needing to line this up in photoshop.

Develop the film in your favorite black & white developer, and then scan them in as normal. It would be a good idea to name them as “red,” “green,” and “blue” just so you can keep track of them.

Then open the images in your photo editor and align them to each other so that they’re all perfectly matched. Starting with the red layer, you want to “colorize” it. Open the colorize menu (the location varies) and tint it red. This “hue” is usually represented by “0” on the color wheel. Then set saturation to 75 and brightness to -30.

Do the same with the Green and Blue layers – setting the hue to 120 and 240, respectively (on some editor, it’s 33 and 66). The saturation and brightness are the same as with the red.

Now we’re almost finished. All we have to do is make them transparent. In the Layers panel, we need to set this to “Screen” for the top two laters and “Normal” for the bottom (at this point, it doesn’t matter which layer is where). Once we do this, the color image will appear!

Next on the episode, we take a look at two of our photos, both from the Fuck Yeah We Do zine.

Eric chose this:

While Vania chose this:

Both go on about it for a spell.

Zine Reviews On this episode, we reviewed two zines. The first was Camerastickers by Ethan Cameradactyl.

In Ethan’s own words: ‘They are the lowest quality prints you’ve ever seen in a zine, and the binding is even worse. The books are bound to fall apart, and the stickers are all thermal, which is basically the opposite of archival. But they’re pretty fun. I think you and Vania and most of your listeners would probably get a real kick out of them.’

The other zine was Every Bus Stop Has Its Own Coffee Shop by Richard Hall. This is a color and black & white halfsize zine that’s really a lovely stroll through Shrewsbury.

Along the way, we stop to hear him point out bits of history and information. There’s the Welsh Bridge, The Buttermarket (aka Butters), and Shrewsbury Abbey. But this isn’t simply one tour. This zine takes place over the entire year, night and day. There’s the evening life in the market, and a morning commute up St. John’s Hill. We wind our way through the streets, and along the river until finally returning to the Porthill Footbridge.

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Hey! We basically made it through 2020! And while the number of the year is essentially arbitrary and nothing will automatically change because we add a digit, we guess it’s something to celebrate, right?

Soooo anyway, on this, our very last show the year, we’ll be hearing from guests of episodes’ past, reviewing zines we’ve received as presents, and talking about talking about plans of photography future… get it? 

 

Guests of Episodes Past

On this episode, we heard from a slew of old friends who left voice messages to let us know how they're doing.

• Hannah Grace
• Kat Swansey
• Aloy Anderson
• Brandy B
• Anne Hollond
• David Chao
• Liz Potter
• Kate Miller Wilson
• Plus one very special guest!

Zines!

We reviewed two zines one this episode:

Summer Kingdom by Or Sachs

Pinoramademic by Alex Morrison

 

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On this episode, we’re talking to Heartless Twyla (@heartlesstwyla on IG) about her new book that revisits a traumatic past; we’ll tell you all about Hansel Mieth, a photographer of the working poor who was actually working poor herself. There’s the answering machine, zine reviews, and something called The Holga Games!

HEARTLESS TWYLA

 

We first heard about Heartless Twyla from the #womenwithfilmwednesday on Istaghram. She’s completing a book project that must have been an extremely difficult journey. And we give her a call to talk about it. 

Here is a link to her Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heartlesstwyla/technicolor-nightmare-a-manic-pixie-film-photography-memoir

@heartlesstwyla on IG

Here is a smattering of her photos:

 

HANSEL MIETH

LIFE photographer Hansel Mieth at work.

Hansel Mieth was a Life Magazine photographer in the 1930s and 40s. Her camera focused mainly upon the working poor and always had a cynical, leftist bent to it. But to write her off as just another staff photographer would be missing the point of not only her work, but her life. 

Here are a few of Hansel’s photographs:

 

ZINE REVIEW

Vania reviewed:

Sacrosanct by Nick Tauro Jr. (@nick.tauro.jr on IG)

You can pick up the zine here: https://nicktaurojr.bigcartel.com/

 

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On this episode, we’ll be talking to photographer and playwright, Ed Pavez (@edpavez on IG). We’ll also be telling you about the many varied styles of mediums of Pacific Northwest photographer Virna Haffer. Oh, and Eric visited the Contact High exhibit! We’ll push the button on the answering machine and have a little bit of fun along the way.

Eduardo Pavez Goye

We were honored to have Ed Pavez as a guest on this episode. Ed is a film photographer, playwrite, musician and traveler. We talked about photography, of course, but also growing up in Chile, protesting, zine making, creative ruts, and whether raisins belong in empanadas.

IG: @edpavez

YouTube: Ed Pavez

Web: eduardopavezgoye.com

Here are a few selections of his photographic work:

 

Virna Haffer

 

 

Unless you were from the Puget Sound area in the first half of the 1900s, you probably haven’t heard of Virna Haffer. She was a Tacoma, Washington area photographer whose variety in both style and medium should be celebrated far more than it is today. 

Virna showed us that we should not be limited by age or even camera. We shouldn’t confine ourselves to a single medium or format. She even called into question the importance of having our own specific style. She began with photography from the age of 15, and sixty years later had evolved her work into something entirely new. She was constantly experimenting, changing and allowing her art to express whatever worlds she could imagine.

She produced so much variety! Here’s a smattering of it…

             

 

Contact High

Eric visited the Contact High exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture. The exhibit features over 100 contact sheets taken of the hip-hop community.

 

The show was mostly old school, golden age – Grand Master Flash through Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, but also covered Missy Elliot, Tupac, Mos Def. 

He also picked up the Contact High book by Vikki Tobak, which contains most of the contact sheets (no De La Soul, for example). Plus many more. Usually shows a full page version of the most popular frame from the sheet. While the show was heavier on the golden age, this has a lot more 90s and 00s.

Each contact sheet has a blurb by the photographer. They often tell which cameras they were using, but generally talk about the shoot. 

Here are some cell phone shots from the museum:

             

 

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On this episode we talk a bit about the Ansel Method – What is it? Why is it? Does it work? But more importantly, while we dev, Vania tells us all about her trip up north.

Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartorgraphers on IG) shot Agfa APX25, which expired in 2003, in the greatest medium format camera ever made: the Mamiya RB67.

Here are his:

Vania (@surfmartian on IG) shot Fomapan 100 in a Pentax 67 (borrowed). And these are Vania’s taken on her recent trip!

The Ansel Method!

Apparently, Ansel Adams used one particular formula in the 80s for all “modern emulsions.” This formula was Kodak HC-110 in a ratio of 1+90 for 18mins. This means that you’d use 5.5ml of developer in 500ml of water.

For agitation, do 30 seconds at first and then five seconds every three minutes. Stop and fix as normal.

This should be able to develop any normal black & white emulsion

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On this episode, surprisingly, Vania takes a trip and Eric takes a hike! Vania heads up to northern California to a Hobo Convention. She tells us all about it and shares some of the sheets she shot. Meanwhile, Eric explores an abandoned house.

Vania shot Fomapan 200 through her Graflex Super D 4×5. Here they are:

 

 

Eric shot Ilford HP5+ through the Chamonix. Look!:

 

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It’s been a minute, but we are back and wow are we chatty!

 

After a bit of catching up, we dive right into our answering machine question. This was an easy one:

Tell us about your summer photography.

 

It was last minute, but we got some great answers. Also, Eric rues the loss of his five-minute Bronica. We answer this ourselves as well.

 

We don’t normally do a lot of on-mic gear talking – except when we do. And we do. We took a slew-ish of cameras with us on this little photo excursion, and we will tell you all the hell about them.

 

Tired of that, we give a call to Anne Hollond (@annehollond). While in Kansas, we palled around with her for a few days (in a socially distant sort of way). It was amazing as we talk a lot about.

 

Here are a couple of our photos from Bison, Kansas:

Camera: Hasselblad 500C Film: Ektar 100 Taken by Vania Camera: Kodak Brownie No 2, Model D (1914) Film: Kodak Tmax 400; x-08/2004 Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 12min July 2020

For the “back half” of the episode, we go over the ins and outs, ups and downs of a long ass photo trip. We get sassy.

 

We wrap up the episode with a couple of zine reviews. First up was Haxes by 𝐉.𝐌 𝐀𝐥𝐦𝐪𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 (haexes). You can pick it up at Haexes.com.

 

Second, we looked at Wa/onderer #1 by Jaso Biehner (@jasonbiehner).

And finally, we announced the release of our zine: 6×7 – 6×7 is a zine celebrating the Mamiya RB67, perhaps the most perfect camera ever made (mileage may vary).

We each selected 30ish of our favorite photos and created a zine around them. This issue reflects the love and chaos, messiness and beauty that is film photography.

 

But this is not a mere photozine. The photos, still the central feature, are placed within two-page spreads made up of various related and unrelated bits and bobs.

 

It is available here.

 

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On this episode, we start with a of catching up. Have we been shooting? Not much. But we’ve got a couple of things on our mind.

Answering Machine We then turn to the answering machine messages. The question this time around was: How would you feel about developing someone else’s work?

Answering Machine We then turn to the answering machine messages. The question this time around was: How would you feel about developing someone else’s work?

Hello, Brandy Remember Brandy (@film_diary_of_a_redhead on IG)? She’s half of the Film Photo Geeks podcast, and was one of our first guests. Sh’s back to talk about what it was like working in a string of photolabs.

She also stuck around to talk about the movie One Hour Photo…

It’s Movie Night! We’ve been wanting to do One Hour Photo for a long time now. The movie is going on 20 years old. How has it aged? Do we still think of photography in the same way? What’s taken the place of photolabs and photo albums? And isn’t Robin Williams fucking brilliant in this?

“And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this: I was here. I existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.”

Zine Review We’ve got one zine to review this week. It’s Drunken Hong Kong by Robert Burton. It’s a 48 page, color/B&W, perfect bound beauty of a zine.

“Enjoy a vision of Hong Kong just one year ago: before the protests over the extradition bill, before the pandemic, before the end of ‘one country, two systems’ that’s threatening to happen right now–29 years ahead of schedule.”

It is, in a word, frenetic. But we loved it and you should too. Get it here.

6×7 Zine We have a zine of our own coming out shortly. Stay tuned…

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With Eric in Nebraska and Vania just getting back from Mexico, we thought it would be fun to give you a little update from the road.

Vania got stuck in the sand while Eric drove through and camped through several of the most severe storms he's ever experienced. 

But most importantly, how was the photography? Well, listen and find out!

To celebrate our one-year anniversary, we field a slew of questions from listeners. Some are about photography and developing, while others a bit more personalish.

 

Vania developed Ilford Delta 100 in Rodinal 1+25 for 9 minutes. She shot them in a Brownie Rainbow box camera from a billion year ago. Here are some of her results:

Meanwhile, Eric developed Ultrafine Extreme 400 in PMK 1+2+100 for 13 minutes. He shot these in the Mamiya RB67. Here are some results:

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On this, our first true Dev Party of the new season, half of us are developing film and the other half are talking about a new old camera, famous and infamous! What could it be? Tune in!

Eric is the one developing. He’s got eight sheets of Ansco Versapan from May of 1964. He shot them last month and is developing them now, right before your ears! He developed them in HC-110; 1+90 for 18mins. It’s the Ansel Method! Behold! What has transpired? See! For! Your! Self!

 

 

Vania did not develop on mic, but she talked about a roll that she developed shortly after. Here are the results…

 

 

And here are two stills from Police Academy for some reason:

 

 

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

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On this slightly less spooky episode of Dev Party, we're twinning! Both Eric and Vania are developing 120 rolls of Kodak Double X in FA-1027.

We go into the details and the weirdo data sheet that accompanies FA-1027. We also brush up against the long history of Double X. 

Not only that, we both give our answers for last episode's answering machine question: Which photographic trends or cliches are we no longer doing? 

Here are some of the shots Vania developed: 

And here are some that Eric did: 

 

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While we take some holiday time off, we thought it would be fun (?) to try out a new idea. We've been kicking around the idea of mini-episodes for some time now, and here's our first attempt.

Basically we (Vania and Eric) each develop a couple of rolls of film. She does color, he does black & white. We talk a little about our own process and maybe you'd find this interesting. Who knows? This includes the emulsion that we're testing for a possible rebranding. What is it? Does it work? What's the what? Listen and find out!

IG: @allthroughalens.podcast

Sample Photos: https://wp.me/pbnS9e-17

 

Tonight, on a very special All Through a Lens…

we’re going to be talking about quite a bit more than just film photography. We’ll welcome Roxanna Angles and discuss Mindfulness through Photography. Both Vania and I will be digging into Impostor Syndrome and how to get out of that weird little spiral. There’s a bit on journaling, there’s the answering machine question, some zine reviews, and all the banter you’ve grown to love….

 

ROXANNALOG!

You might know Roxanna Angles La Belle as @Roxannalog from the Negative Positives podcast. But she’s also an author who wrote the book  An Introduction to Mindfulness Through Photography. We gave her a call to talk to her all about it. 

An Introduction to Mindfulness Through Photography.

Here are some of Roxanna’s photos:

IMPOSTOR SYNDROME

For our main feature, we enter into a discussion about Impostor Syndrome.

Impostor Syndrome is the feeling of doubt in your own talent, in your own abilities, despite evidence to the contrary. For some, it can be a nagging feeling of insecurity, but for others it can turn into an almost paranoid certainty that someone will expose them as a fraud.

Ironically, this often strikes after something good. Rather than believing that these accomplishments came from our own skills and expertise, we end up thinking it was luck or random chance that led to our success. 

In many of the papers and articles we’ve read, the focus is on CEOs, celebrities, and  the incredibly wealthy. It’s almost as if to say “see, they’re just like us – even the incredibly powerful can have doubts!” 

But let’s set that aside. We’re not CEOs, we’re not famous, and we’re just scraping by. We’re not professional photographers. We’re taking photos, doing zines, and talking about photography. In fact, for many of us, film photography is our art.

However, even an artist isn’t immune to this. Articles about “Artists at the top of their game” abound. In those cases, they’re speaking to professional artists. Their stories, at least to me, aren’t relatable or inspiring. We are not professional photographers, but for some reason, we still sometimes feel that we’re faking it. 

ZINE REVIEWS

Rust Buckets by Regaldo (@pretty_nifty on IG)

https://www.instagram.com/pretty_nifty/

Monochrome Mania #4 by Mark O’Brien (@mobphotos on IG)

https://checkout.square.site/buy/QHBXTII6Y6SBOIO4B2MSLTGH

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On this basically spooky episode, we’ll be the podcast that hands out full size candy bars. We’ve got an enlivening interview with Amy Badenchini (@lilangelfilm2 on IG), about photography, lowriders and punk rock. Then we’ll turn to Satan to tell you all about the 1800s craze of Diableries. We’ve also got a ghoulish answering machine question, as well as zine reviews and other bits of glossolalia.

But first, Vania and Eric banter about a number of things, including a Halloween candy rant, a Duran Duran disappointment, and Vania’s potentially stolen Rolleiflex.

 

Amy Badenchini

Amy Badenchini’s photographic world is filled with lowriders, punk rock and cats – sometimes all at the same time. Her slightly shifted color shots of car culture caught my eye years ago, and I’m stoked to finally get the chance to sit down and talk with her.

IG: @lilanglefilm2

Here are a few of her photos, including the Bear & Oreo shot!

 

 

 

Diableries – 3D Images of Satan!

This collection of images was called Les Diableries – they were photographs of intricate clay sculptures depicting numerous hellscapes, photographed by stereo cameras to render them in three dimensions. 

The typical Diablerie was a diorama depicting a number of scenes filled with Satan and skeletons, demons and devils engaged in various acts. Sometimes these acts were fantastical, like the Black Sabbath or Satan’s Fete Day. Others depicted Judgment Day and Orpheus leaving Hell. And still others were weirdly mundane: Return from the Racecourse … in Hell, New Year’s Day … in Hell, and the Infernal Railway.. In – well you get the idea.

Though all of the original 72 Diableries were different, they all showed the Devil partaking in some hellish happening. And though the styles of the individual artists showed through, the basic idea – the Devil doing stuff with skeletons – was carried throughout the series. Satan and his pals were essentially actors playing whatever roles the artists placed them in. Think of it as how the Japanese toy company Sanrio uses Hello Kitty – but here, the emphasis is on the “Hell”.

We talked about a few of these Diableries, and here some are:

If you’re good at these types of things, you might be able to “free-eye” the 3D effect…

In the piece, we mentioned how the glowing eyes were made. Here’s a photo of the back of one of the Diableries. You can see the tiny pinholes where the skeleton’s eyes appeared. These holes were filled with red gel.

 

 

Zine Review

Vania reviewed Lost Memory by Chris D’Amore – a 96 page book that can be picked up here:

https://www.chrisdamore.com/shop/lostmemory

 

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

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On this week’s show we give a call to Megan Karson (@megankarson on IG), a tintype photographer. We’ll take another quick shot at the whole E-6 thing. We’ve got zine reviews and more fun. Plus we’ll tell you about Julia E. Tuell, a little-known photographer of Native Americans who was one of the few who were granted access to ceremonies typically barred to whites.

 

Megan Karson

 

Our interview this week is with Megan Karson. We talk about how she got into photography and tintypes, traveling while shooting, the differences between shooting film vs. tintype portraits, and a whole lot more.

 

 

 

 

You can find her @megankarson on IG as well as www.megankarson.com.

 

 

 

Julia Tuell

 

Our feature is about Julia Tuell, a photographer who lived on several Indian Reservations in Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana in the early 1900s. She was so trusted by the tribes that they allowed her access to not only their daily lives, but to their ceremonies.

 

You can find a lovely selection of her work on our website.

 

 

 Links

 

Three of Julia's photo albums.

 

Julia Tuell's photography on Facebook

 

Julia Tuell's (basically official) website.

 

Zine Reviews

 

Functional Japan/ese by Robert Burton

 

This is a book more than anything. It’s about 100 pages long and perfect bound. Over 100 photos taken with a Pentax K1000. It’s got cats. I’ve complained about lack of cats before, and I think Robert has really delivered here. I mean, there could always be more, but this is great.

 

 

You can find Robert @elgatomagnifico on IG.

 

The zine can be bought on his Etsy page.

 

Patreon

 

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Our featured Patron for this episode is Dave Walker! Check out his work on IG: @alanbeingalan

 

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Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

 

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On this episode, Vania and Eric talk shooting with people (or not), we’ll call up a very special guest, and dig into color photography before the invention of color film. We’ll also finish up our trilogy on zine making. Plus zine reviews and the announcement of a “new” old stock emulsion.

But first, Vania’s been sick (though it’s not the annoying and mild Man-Flu). Still, she managed to do some shooting. She even surfed with a gray whale. Eric also shot some 4×5 and with the 6×7 back to varying degrees of amusement.

Before getting into the thick of the show, we announce The Slow Meow – a slow speed Soviet-era microfilm (Tasma Mikrat 200) that they’ve teased for literally months now. It’s for sale via Eric’s Etsy Store and all proceeds go to help funding the podcast.

Moving on to the answering machine, we asked listeners to call in about whether they like to shoot by themselves or with other people. A dozen or so called in and we couldn’t say no to any of them. Their answers varied, of course, but most folks diplomatically split the difference. Wise decision – you never know who’s listening. Vania and Eric also weigh in.

We then give a call to Marley! You may know her from Vania’s stories, but now she’s here! It’s Vania’s 12 year old, film (and digital) shooting daughter. She weighs in on how the kids see film, social media, and what it’s like to grow up with a mom shooting film when the other kids moms just have iPhones.

For the back half of the episode, we switch gears and dive back into history. There were color photos before the invention of color film. How? Well, it’s a complicated story that we try to distill. It’s a tale of that takes us from “I know we can do this, so why can’t we do this?” to “We did this… but how?” Riveting stuff!

We then finish our trilogy on zine-making by talking about printers and selling (and trading) zines. Also about adding personal touches.

Lastlyish, it’s zine reviews. Vania reviews the new zine of Aerochrome shots by Kikie Wilkins in Views From Tuscon, Issue 3. And Eric takes on Mark O’Brien‘s Monochrome Mania – a journal all about low ISO film; how to find, shoot and develop it.

And speaking of zines, Eric was a part of Frozen Wasteland’s KODAK GPX 160 compilation zine. The goal of this zine is to showcase and celebrate how different photographers obtain wildly different results and display totally disparate subjects, via processing, composition, and equipment choice, given the same starting medium. It’s full color, 80 pages, and features over a dozen photographers. Pick it up!

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We’re not quite back just yet, but we’re also not still on the road. Vania and Eric chit some chat and chat some shit on what they’ve been up to.

Vania has been taking the summer off, while Eric’s finished up the photography trip.

On the trip, she shot 260ish sheets and 70ish rolls of 120 across 7000ish miles. There’s not a lot of specifics.

Eric somehow managed to keep a travel journal, and reads a couple of entries from it about loss and how to cope with it on the road. We also recommend that you check out Kaz Rowe’s video on the Cottingley Fairies Hoax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSVxd_pXns&t

 

Also, how about Johnny Got His Gun?

https://archive.org/details/johnny-got-his-gun

 

And hell, why not Day of the Dead while we're at it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIQJ39HKU0

 

We’ll be back next week for a whole new Dev Party! And a week after that for the first episode of the new season (you know, hopefully).

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[For the next few weeks, we'll be entertaining you with Dev Parties! The regular episodes will come back in August.]

 

On this episode of Dev Party, Vania stretches the limits of the ECN-2 (to breaking), while Eric discovers some mystery sheets that he shot at some point in the last year or so.

As you’ll hear, the ECN-2 kits are great, but they don’t last forever!

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Welcome to another episode of Dev Party! Along with developing some film, we’ve got our first entry in the embarrassing (photography-related) stories request. This was submitted by a listener who thought a milk dress would be a good idea. Hint: It was. Also, Vania thinks her face is “presidential,” but not in a good way. Eric muses about bad photos vs. bad photo days and realizes he might not be as pessimistic as he thought (which changes absolutely nothing).

Photographically speaking, Vania developed Fomapan 200 with FA-1027; 1+19; 10.5mins. Here are her shots that she took with her Graflex Super D:

 

Meanwhile, Eric shot Fomapan 100 on a hike with the Chamonix. He devved with FA-1027; 1+14; 9mins. And here are his:

 

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

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While Eric develops some Shanghai GP3 100 in HC-110, Vania goes for some Ilford Delta 3200 - except she can't remember what she shot it in. Was it a Holga? Was it a Yashica? Why would it be either? How could she forget? Tune in and find out!

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And on this little episode – our 73rd – we’ll talk to Jordanna Kalman (@rabbitsparrow on IG), a photographer whose art doesn’t end with either the photograph or the print. We also look for some much needed inspiration from a few little-known photographers. There’s some tips on making anthology zines, as well as a zine review, the answering machine, and ohh so much more.

Jordanna Kalman

Our guest today produces work that is as confrontational as it is controversial. Her methods are unconventional, and the results push us to reckon with the history of photography, and how that history affects us to this day. We were honored to sit down with Jordanna Kalman.

Here is a small glimpse of her work:

IG: @rabbitsparrow

Web: https://rabbitandsparrow.com/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordannakalman

Shop: https://jordannakalman.bigcartel.com/

 

Eliza Withington

Elizabeth Withington was one of the rare women who shot landscapes, and traveled while doing so.

She used her petticoat as a makeshift developing tent, and parasols for assisting in her climbing mountains and sliding into ravines alone.

How a Woman Makes Landscape Photographs, 1876

The Photographs, Pistols & Parasols Podcast episode about her: https://p3photographers.net/p3p008/

Here are a few of her photos (and sadly , very few remain):

 

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Both Hilla and Bernd were born in the 1930s in Germany, both were still children during WW2. Following the war, Bernd was a painter and Hilla took up photography, taking after her mother.

In the late 1950s, both enrolled in Kunstakademie, the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. Soon after starting classes, they met.

They soon discovered that they not only had overlapping interests, but complementary interests as well. What each brought to the collaboration added to that collaboration. 

Almost from the beginning, they established the parameters for their work. They’d photograph industrial structures in such a way that each print would render the subjects in an almost identical fashion.

Here are some of their photos:

 

Zine Review

The Closing of a Corner Store by Amelia Bjesse-Puffin

This isn’t a typical photozine. It’s a b&w xeroxed halfsize zine. Here, Amelia shows and writes about the last days of a neighborhood’s Rite Aide.

Many neighborhoods in our cities have long ago abandoned that notion of corner store. They’ve been replaced by chain drug stores like Rite Aide and CVS. But now, with gentrification and the rising cost of living, especially on the West Coast, even those chains are pulling up stakes and abandoning the communities they served for years.

 Amelia has documented what we see happening around us. These types of zines are essential. Nobody else is or really could tell this story. 

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/729659147/the-closing-of-a-corner-store

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

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On this episode, we talk about our experiences shooting each others cameras (while developing the film we’re talking about).

Vania shot Eric’s Mamiya m645j, while Eric shot Vania’s Hasselblad 500C.

Answering the previous episode’s Answering Machine Question, we both talk about the various animal encounters we’ve had (some together!).

Eric developed Foma Retropan 320 in Foma Retro Special, and here are a few of his:

Vania shot Kodak Lumiere. And here are some of her’s:

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

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On this episode, we’re taking it all back to the beginning and walking you through the very basics of black & white film developing. We also talk a bit about the science behind it. Dig it, won’t you?

Here’s a list of the stuff we used with links to Freestyle Photo

Rodinal: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/12054-Adox-Rodinal-Film-Developer-500-ml

HC-110 (generic): https://www.freestylephoto.biz/10190-LegacyPro-L110-Liquid-Film-Developer-1-Pint-(Makes-2-Gallons)

Graduated Pitcher: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/204256-Kaiser-Graduated-Beaker-1000-ml

Developing Tank: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/5031-Arista-Classic-Double-Reel-Developing-Tank-with-Two-Reels (there are many others to choose from, as well).

Fixer: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/6200-Arista-Premium-Odorless-Liquid-Fixer-32-oz.

 

 

Vania developed Ilford Delta 400 in HC-110B for 10 mins. Here are some of her results:

Eric shot Shanghai GP3, developing it in Rodinal 1+25 for 7.5mins:

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On this episode of Dev Party, Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) and Vania (@surfmartian on IG) talk a bit about how they plan to incorporate last episode’s inspiration into their lives. Vania shot Kodak Gold 200 in the Rolleiflex with a waterhousing. Eric shot some Foma 100 and devved it in FA-1027 (aka F76+)

Vania was inspired by Eliza Withington, but there’s not much you can do there, photographically speaking. It was Withington’s lifestyle of traveling alone and photographing in the 1850s that caught Vania’s eye.

So here are some of Vania’s photos:

Meanwhile, Eric tried to do the impossible trying to straighten out a cooling tower so it wouldn’t look wonky. Mostly, he just wanted to gain the skill perfected by Bernd & Hilla Becher. You’ll see.

Here are his:

 

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On today’s episode Spring is in the air! We’re walking around our neighborhoods like Fred Herzog, we’re cleaning our springs like it’s spring cleaning, and we’re finding zines that we should have reviewed months ago. We’re doing a lot of things, okay? We’re also giving a call to Jana Obscura!

After Eric and Vania check in on each other, they check the answering machine for some good news.

For this episode there wasn’t a question – there was just a plea: Tell us your good (film photography related) news. The calls came in and we were of good cheer!

Walkin’ Talkin’ Fred Herzog! More and more we’re picking out a photographer for a bit of inspiration. This episode, we look at a few Kodachrome photos taken by Fred Herzog in Vancouver. He had been shooting since the 50s, but got his first show in 2007.

Since many of us have been only getting out of the house for walks, we thought it would be a fine time to take a look at a photographer who was mostly known for just that. Fred Herzog from Vancouver, British Columbia, would take nearly the same route through the city every day.

Through much of the 1950s and 60s Herzog tramped the streets after work and on weekends with a Kodak Retina on his hip. He had been given a large format plate camera when he was young, but tossed it for the small 35mm.

The body of work he produced is extraordinary. At this point in photographic history, color was seen as sort of cheap and gimmicky. Fine art photographers as well as street photographers used black & white almost exclusively. Despite the tradition, Herzog fell in love with color. And not just any color, but the uncanny, vivid tones of Kodak’s Kodachrome.

His photo “Paris Cafe” from 1959 features a man looking out of a cafe window. He’s framed by Christmas decorations and menus. Of this, Herzog later said, “The man in that picture looks somewhat disengaged, but I like the Santa Clauses and I like the price list of food.”

This is a simple enough explanation. He likes these things. But he went on: “The whole atmosphere is somewhat in contradiction with the high-flying name Paris Café. And I like that kind of inherent contradiction in many of my pictures. Every picture, I’ve sometimes said, has a curve ball in it. They’re not just pictures of pretty scenes. They’re pictures that have a curve ball in them which makes you think.”

You can find more of his work here. We also suggest the book Modern Color, which you can find here.

Let’s Call Jana!

Jana Obscura (@jana_obscura on IG) grew up in Honolulu and now lives in Seattle, and shoots a ridiculous array of cameras, and is mostly known for her instant and pinhole work. She’s also bok-choy’s biggest fan.

We talk to her about her cameras, her walks around Seattle, laundromats, how she’s dealing with the whole plague days thing, and plans for a possible zine.

Here are a few photos by Jana:

Spring Freakin Cleaning!

It’s technically spring and usually that means cleaning up the cobwebs, tossing and donating things you don’t use anymore and just giving your home a solid deep clean and maybe sanitizing in the more recent times.

We thought it would be fun to talk about this whole spring cleaning jazz and how it pertains to photography. We’ll talking not just cleaning, but exercising your cameras. But we’ll also talk about storing your gear and maybe talk you into getting rid of stuff you no longer use. Oh, and we ramble on a bit about film.

We mentioned a page written by a fellow with a lot of love for camera storage. Here it is.

Zine Reviews

Vania reviewed O’ahu by Dave Brotchie – a half size 54 page black and white semi glossy zine. This is a collection of images he took from the 8 years he called Hawaii home.

Dave expresses how much he misses living on this wonderful island and plans to make it back someday.

You can get a copy via @aloha_dave on Instagram

Meanwhile, Eric reviewed Sam Warner’s Finding the Grain. It’s a glossy 8×8 b&w zine of some really lovely shots. With each, he gives a bit of the story behind the photo, as well as the camera, emulsion and developer he used to bring it into life. These are mostly 35mm, though he’s got a shot with the Pho-Tak Traveler 120.

His choice in subjects is as varied as his choice of film and cameras, and I find this to be a really good thing. With this, you’ve got yourself a very diverse zine. There’s street, architecture, some wildlife and even macro – lots of flowers, which makes Vania really happy (she’s got a thing for men taking photos of flowers).

You can pick it up from Sam on IG: @unrecoveringphotographyaddict Sam’s website: https://www.theunrecoveringphotographyaddict.com/

And we’ll see you next week!

And that’s the show!

Be sure to check out our Dev Party episodes. They’re about to get even more pee-inducing!

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

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For photos and show notes: allthroughalens.com

 

On this episode of Dev Party Vania (@surfmartian) and Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers) try out some new old ideas! But first, Vania developed a roll of Fuji Velvia 50 220 in C-41 - that's right, 220! And it looks amazing! Eric fell back on the old standby of Fomapan 100 in FA-1027 - in 4x5, of course. He had a bad hike and it shows.

 

We also answered a few questions about developing, film, and the age old battle of cake vs. pie! Who will win?

As for the new stuff, we moved the "answering machine" question to Dev Party! Maybe this will be temporary. But for now, here it is! Bam!

And here are some of Vania's photos:

 

 

And here are three of Eric's:

 

 

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On this excited episode of Dev Party, Eric and Vania develop film that expired about 70 years ago!

Eric tried his hand at some Ansco Superpan Press from 1953ish, while Vania devved some Ansco Supreme from 1950.

Here are Eric's results:

And here are a few of Vania's:

We both developed in HC-110; 1+90; for 18mins.

 

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On our first show of the year, we’ve got the second part of our feature on the Zone System (remember that?), we are interviewing Danielle Wrobleski aka @girlwithtoomanycameras, there’s the answering machine and we’ll finally talk about our winter projects!

Danielle!

You might know her as girlwithtoomanycameras on Instagram. You might also know her about the woman behind the hashtag #womenwithfilmwednesday. She’s shaken things up lately, and we’re going to dig into why this movement within the film community is necessary. 

Here are a few of her photos:

Zone System 2: Zoner Patrol

Two episodes we took a look at the Zone System. We gave a basic overview to the best of our abilities. Since nobody lodged any formal complaints against us, we’re trudging forward!

While we talked about how to use the system to get a very average shot, that’s not all you can  do with the Zone system.

In this segment, we’ll talk about how to get the photo you want - be it darker or lighter than average - using the same principles we used before. 

Here's the shot that Eric talked about:

And here's Vania's:

Zine Reviews!

This episode we reviewed:

3 Hour Tour

You can get it here: https://www.shrkbait.co/product/3-hour-tour

And we took a look at City and Flowers: Trichromes, which you can find here: https://blog.dankspangle.com/buy-prints

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On this episode we are talking to Serbest Salih of the Sirkhane Mobile Darkroom along the Turkey Syrian border. We’ll also be presenting the second part of our story on Imogen Cunningham. Before that, there’s a couple of photographically-related songs that we’d like to tell you about. There’s also the answering machine, zine reviews and quite a bit more.

 

Serbest Salih from Sirkhane Darkroom

Serbest Salih is a film photographer living in Mardin, Turkey. He runs the Sirkhane darkroom – a mobile darkroom project servicing refugee and local children on the Turkish and Syrian border. The mobile darkroom also a branch in Iraq.

Here are all the links you need to help:

IG: @sirkhanedarkroom

Web: https://heryerdesanat.org/darkroom

Buy their book: I Saw the Air Fly: https://www.mackbooks.us/products/i-saw-the-air-fly-br-sirkhane-darkroom

Serbest Salih’s IG: @servestsalih_

Here are some of the images from I Saw the Air Fly:

 

And here are some recent images from the Sirkhane Darkroom IG feed:

 

Imogen Cunningham, Part 2

We’re back to conclude our Imogen feature. When last we left Imogene Cunningham, she had just divorced Roi and was about to photograph the Unemployed Exchange Association sawmill with Dorothea Lange! It was 1934, the Great Depression was in full swing, and Imogene was ready to begin the rest of her life.

Imogen on Carson: https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/imogen-cunningham-on-the-tonight-show-with-johnny-carson/

Portrait of Imogen (Imogen discussing many of her photos – this is the film they played at the Imogen Cunningham Exhibit): https://archive.org/details/SCV23

Imogen Cunningham, A Portrait by John Korty: https://archive.org/details/imogencunninghamphotographer

Here are most of the photos we referenced in the episode:

 

Songs About Photography

We also looked at two songs that had something to do with photography.

Eric chose Guy Clark’s “My Favorite Picture of You”

 

Vania chose Spoon’s “Turn My Camera On”

 

Zine Reviews

Eric reviewed Sidewalks by Garon Kiesel @grain_or_die

as well as the new monthly offering from Themselves Press!

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One this, our first Dev Party of the season, we answer part of the question: what did we do on our summer vacation. In this case, we fired off model rockets with cameras attached to them.

Specifically, we shot a pair of Estes Astrocam 110s in the Alvord Desert, Oregon. With each launch (when we remembered to set the shutter), the rocket-camera took a photo. It was almost always a bad photo, but a photo nonetheless.

Both Eric and Vania had their own rockets. They shot a few pics with the rocket-camera, attempting to use it as a regular camera. Those, oddly enough, worked better. They both loaded the same rolls into a Kraft Velveeta 110 promotional camera and shot with that for a week or so.

Here are some shots from Eric’s roll (some were shot by Vania):

 

And here are some shots from Vania’s roll (some were shot by Eric):

 

Meanwhile, Vania developed a color roll she shot in the Graflex 2×3 (with a square back for some reason):

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On this episode of Dev Party, Vania and Eric develop two wildly different emulsions. Vania finds a roll of Bergger Panchro 400, while Eric tries to make 4×5 dry plates work in an 8×10 Stearman press tank.

Unfortunately, Vania had some bad luck and there’s nothing to show.

Less unfortunately, Eric had some mediocre luck and this is what it is:

The defects are explained in the “futures” section, but basically it’s “mostly user error.” Mostly.

Eric also mentions shooting a couple of wedding portraits for his friend Jeff. ..

 

 

Stearman Press 8×10 tank: https://shop.stearmanpress.com/products/sp-8×10-daylight-processing-tray

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On this episode of Dev Party, Vania and Eric are starting something a bit different. We asked listeners to write in with questions about film developing, photography, or just anything, really. If you've got a question, just send it in via email or on IG.

While answering questions from Brandy B @film_diary_of_a_redhead, Billy Sanford @bsanfordjr and @analogkilla, we also developed film.

Vania developed some sheets of Ilford HP5+ in Kodak HC-110. Here are her shots:

 

Meanwhile, Eric developed a roll of Fuji NPZ 800, expired in June of 2003. Naturally, he used one of his own DIY ECN-2 kits. Here are the shots now:

 

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We’ve got a fairly unique show for you today. We’ll be talking with Liz Potter (@lizpotterphotography on IG) – not about Polaroid lifts, but about the photos she takes while camping solo. Along with that, we’ll look into how photographers camped out in the old days, and how their experiences compare to our own. We’ll also have some zine reviews, the answering machine, and some stuff on something called tin types.

Liz Potter

Web: https://www.lizpotterphotography.com/

IG: @lizpotterphotography

The hope of camping out that comes over one in early spring, the laying of plans and arranging of details is, I sometimes think, even more enjoyable than reality itself. As there is pleasure in this, let me advise you to give a practical turn to your anticipations.

– John M. Gould, How to Camp Out, 1877

If there’s one person we could talk to about solo camping and photography, it would be Liz Potter. Her beautiful panoramic photos and self portraits show her fearless devotion to solo desert camping.

In this episode, we all talk about our experiences camping and shooting all on our lonesome. We each have different styles and goals, but we each have a lot of common ground to nod over.

Here are some:

William Henry Jackson

While we muse and laugh about solo camping, from time to time, Eric reads from an unpublished diary by 1800s photographer William Henry Jackson, who wrote extensively about his life as a camping large format photographer.

 

Hull and I carried two cameras. The first was a standard 8 x 10. The other was a stereo: with a pair of brass-barreled Willard lenses, it looked like a young cannon. Then, besides the bulky plates, we had a mass of collodions, silver baths and developers. We may have looked as if we were ready for a picnic - but it wasn't one.

 

The diary in question comes from the summer of 1869. It’s available here.

And if you’re a Patreon subscriber, you can listen to Eric read the whole damn thing.

While his work is fairly available, most of what he shot during this period is not. Here is what we could find:

 

Zine Reviews

Offseason #1 by Ralph Brandi: https://www.etsy.com/shop/offseasonzine $8 shipped in the US

Lost Coast Land by Robert: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1182052057/lost-coastland

 

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Vania's daughter joins us for her second development ever - slide film processed in E-6 chemistry! Is this too much? Will her photos turn out? And most importantly, how pretty is the pre-wash?

All this an more will be answered! Tune in!

 

Here are some of her shots...

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And on this episode, we’re winding our timelines back to the first social media experiment (that seems to have gone a LOT better than the current one) – CDVs, Cabinet Cards and the mania they kicked up. We’ll also be talking to Bay Area portrait photographer and everybody’s best friend, Han Phan (@hawnfawn on IG)!  There’s the answering machine, zine reviews, Tiffen Sinclair (@tiffen.sinclair on IG), and how to find meaning in your shitty work (or at least how we did). 

Hawn Phan (HawnFawn)

We’re so happy to finally be able to sit down with Han! We talked about her portraits and stories, her parents and a project she’s started with them. Lots of talk on cameras and film too.

Website: https://www.hwnfwn.com/

IG: @hawnfawn

Here are a few of her portraits:

CDVs: The First Social Media Experiment

In the early decades of photography, sitting for your portrait was a ritual reserved for the wealthy classes. With the costs of the rare photographer, the glass, the frame, and the experience, few besides the rich could afford the luxury of this one of a kind photograph. 

But in 1854, that all began to change, though not without the protestations of the elites. It was in this year that Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi patented the carte de visite – literally, visiting card.

In this longer feature, we dig into the weird little history of what turned out to be the first Social Media Experiment. Lasting less than a decade, 300 to 400,000 CDVs were cranked out per year.

We look at the lighter side and a bit of the darker side to the first affordable photo trend.

Here are some examples of CDVs, from the very typical to the very famous to the very odd:

Here’s an example of how the larger plate was exposed in eight different segments:

 

And some larger Cabinet Cards:

 

Zine Reviews

Abandoned Cameras Rescued Film by Mark Jensen

https://www.etsy.com/listing/932576642/abandoned-cameras-rescued-film-zine-1

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We're just popping in to let you know that we're taking a little summer break. Details within, obviously, but check our IG for updates too!

On a very special episode of Dev Party, we’re comparing developers! Specifically we’re comparing WD2D+ and HC-110 on Arista Ultra Edu 100 (Fomapan 100).

We skim the history of the developer and John Wimberley, the photographer who formulated it. We also discuss how bias might effect our opinions of developers and emulsions.

This was Eric’s very first time using WD2D+ and he was only a little bitchy about it.

WD2D+ HC-100

Each step of the process is talked about and wondered over. WD2D+ is sort of a pain in the ass to use, but is it worth it? We find out!

Here are Vania’s Photos: Top: Developed in HC-110B for 6 minutes.

Bottom: Developed in WD2D+ for 9 minutes.

 

And here are Eric’s: One sheet in HC-110B for 6 minutes:

And one in WD2D+ for 9 minutes:

We also talk with last episode’s guest, David Chao, about how he develops film. @davidchao.film on IG davidchaophotography.com

Oh, and Eric then takes things too far and compares five different developers (WD2D+, HC-110, PMK, Rodinal, and D-23). He admits it’s totally not scientific, but has a favorite anyway.

D-23 PMK Rodinal

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On this episode of Dev Party, we ask the musical question: Why Is Lint? We also sort of somewhat answer it!

Even though you didn’t specifically ask for it, we’re giving out unsolicited advice on how to deal with lint!

Meanwhile, Vania @surfmartian developed some Fuji Acros in HC-110. She shot it in some Leica she’s borrowing. Eric @conspiracy.of.cartographers, however, developed the old standby: Fomapan 100 in FA-1027!

Here are a few of Vania’s shots:

And here are a few of Eric’s:

 

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On today’s show we’ll be talking to photographer Courtney Coles (@kernieflakes) about her warm and quiet photos. We’ll also discuss the various photographic incarnations of Imogen Cunningham. Vania’s recently taken some cinematic inspiration – there’s the answering machine, zine reviews, and so much more!

Courtney Coles

Courtney Coles is a photographer, writer and professor, born and raised in Los Angeles. Her work centers on the idea of home, even when she’s away from it. Her eye for finding the beautiful and important among the everyday and ordinary is inspiring. She has agreed to tell us all about it, so let’s give Courtney a call.

IG: @kernieflakes

Twitter: @kernieflakes

Web: courtneycoles.com

 

Imogen Cunningham (Part One)

Imogene Cunningham photographed for nearly 75 years. Throughout her long career, she allowed herself to be influenced by the friends she made throughout the photography community. There isn’t really a single thread running through her work that you could look at and think “this is what makes this photo a Cunningham,” and yet she was not without her own style and philosophy – though both changed throughout the years. 

In one way, she was a sponge, soaking up all of the inspiration she could find. And in another, she was a scavenger, feasting on the work of others before her, but doing almost everything they did better. She was a photographic anarchist, holding herself to no stringent set of rules, while playing within and around tradition, rulesets, good taste and expectations.

And that’s where it gets interesting.

Here is some of her work which we discuss in this episode:

 

Zine Reviews

The Elements & Principles of Visual Analysis by Graham Parsons

Better Off No. 4: Paulo Buencamino

 

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On this episode, we delve into the weird history of f/stops! We also talk to Liz Potter (@lizpotterphotography) about pinhole photography, double exposures and making custom, handmade books. There’s a brief issue with E-6 silliness, zine reviews, and the answering machine question.

After a bit of chin-wagging, we wonder a bit about “gatekeeping” when it comes to certain photographers and their insistence that things be done a certain way – or else.

Specifically, we’re talking about E-6 Processing vs. Cross-processing.

With that garbage taken to the curb, we asked listeners to call in to answer:

Is there a place that you’ve never visited that you’d like to photograph?

Let’s Call Liz! This episode, we called up Liz Potter to talk about handmade books, pinhole cameras, double exposures and shooting in general.

Here are a few of her photos:

 

Here’s a photo of her book:

f/Stops: What the f Are They Stopping? F-stops! we all use them, and some of us even know why. But what *are* they? What’s an f? What’s a stop? What’s the difference between an aperture and diaphragm? What’s up with all the weirdly specific numbers? And what’s the deal with the funny looking f?

We answer a few of these questions to the best of our abilities. Plus, an indepth-ish look at the history of aperture settings!

Evelyn Cameron Correction In the last episode, we said that there wasn’t really an online archive of Evelyn Cameron’s work. This wasn’t exactly true. Follow these links:

Evelyn Cameron Diaries.

Evelyn Cameron Photos.

Zine Reviews Eric reviewed Filling the Time in Catalunya by Karen Freer.

Vania reviewed Now You See Me #1 by Alan Joseph Marx.

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Be sure to check out our Dev Party episodes. They’re about to get even more pee-inducing!

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On today’s show we’re talking to Charlie from Themselves Press, we’ll be telling you all about the weird history of police mug shots, there’s a couple of book reviews and a bit of a listener memorial to Aloy Anderson.

 

Full Show Notes & Photos here: https://allthroughalens.com/

CHARLIE CHUX CAMUGLIA: THEMSELVES PRESS

Last episode we interviewed Denise Grays (@deniseg316), who had just published a zine through Themselves Press. That zine distro and press is run by charlie chux camuglia (@casualscience) of Themselves Press (@themselvespress).  Since they’re into film photography, zines, art and cats, it just seems natural that we’d give them a call. 

Here are some of their photos:

This is Charlie’s site: https://www.casual-science.com/hello

And don’t forget to visit themselvespress.com

THE HISTORY OF MUG SHOTS

It would be tempting to say that before the invention of photography, there was some sort of rudimentary form of mugshots. We might even want to claim that Wanted Posters from the Wild West and runaway slave notices were proto-mugshots.

But they weren’t. Both existed before photography. Wanted posters eventually used photography, while runaway slave notices never used it at all (enslaved people were generally not photographed).

In truth, mugshots grew out of the portrait industry. Both were, essentially, identical: front-facing, no expression, and photographed from the shoulders up. The stereotypical side-facing mugshot came later, and we’ll get to that.

We delve into Rogues’ Galleries, Alexander Gardner, Thomas Byrnes, Cesara Lombroso, Francis Galton, Alphonse Bertillon – the usual suspects.

Vania and Eric also talked about their favorite celebrity mug shots:

Here are some we mentioned:

We also mentioned Underworld: Mug Shots from the Roaring Twenties.

ALOY ANDERSON

We asked our followers on Instagram to leave us voices message memorials to Aloy Anderson, who passed away last month.

His YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKbs6hVUJsDxCVpZeZPurOg

His Instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/aloyandersonphotography/

His memorial service is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKa_AeQ_MMQ

 

REVIEW: BLACK & WHITE & WEIRD ALL OVER

Review of Black & White & Weird All Over by Jon “Bermuda” Schawartz. 

“Bermuda” Swartz has been Weird Al Yankovic’s drummer since they met on the Dr. Demento Show in September 1980. And while he’s known mostly for that, he was also a photographer. He picked up a Minolta SRT-101 in the early 70s, and was rolling his own rolls and printing in a home darkroom not long after. He quickly discovered that he simply documented everything.

When it became more economical to shoot color, he switched over. But in 1983, as Weird Al was shooting the video for “Ricky” (a Desi & Lucy-based parody of Toni Basil’s “Hey Mickey”), he thought that black & white might just be the better choice to capture the shoot. He was not wrong.

The book, a 200 page hardback, is made up of a couple hundred photos from 1983 to 1986, covering Al’s first album through his fourth, Polka Party.

ZINE REVIEWS

Vania reviewed Wet Plate Collodion Photographs by Paul Bardon, available here: https://www.blurb.com/b/9819915-wet-plate-collodion-photographs

Eric reviewed Bulldozed Future #2 by Ryan Berkebile (@l0ngdistancerunner on IG)

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

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While we're on a bit of a summer break, we bring to you a Patreon bonus episode from March 2021.

 

We talk a lot, and the conversation meanders all over the place. So what do we talk about on this one?

 

- Malls

- Jobs we were really shitty at.

- Getting in trouble as kids. 

- Bidets

- What we'd trade our favorite cameras for.

- Scary Movies

- Our best dinosaur roars.

- The most difficult thing about doing the podcast.

- We try to figure out Gremlins.

- The smells we can never smell again.

 

We talk about photography more than it seems. But we also cover a LOT of other subjects. 

 

Enjoy!

Let’s take a deep dive into Orthochromatic film! What is it? Why is it? Do you want to shoot it? Are you sure? And most importantly, how do you dev it?

We really dig into the history of it and which bits of Roy G Biv it picks up. Also, how it compares to emulsions that came before it. Isn’t this exciting?

Eric shot Ilford Ortho Plus, devving it in Rodinal 1+50 for 15mins. Here are some pics:

Vania shot some Fuji HR-U X-ray film, which is orthochromatic, picking up both blues and greens (many x-ray emulsions pick up only blue). She devved it in Rodinal 1+100 for 4mins. Here are some of hers:

If you were curious how blue sensitive-only emulsion compares to blue-green sensitive, here’s a color chart:

Here are some other comparisons:

Vania also mentioned shooting ortho with a red filter in Yellowstone. Here’s that…

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On this Dev Party - the first episode of the newest of years, Vania and Eric try some old and some new. There's also quite a bit of graveyard talk, which makes a bit of sense.

Vania developed some old ass Ilford Delta 400. It was long ago expired and absolutely looks it. Of course, she shot them while in the water, using her Pentax 645 and waterhousing. She developed it in Rodinal because why not?

Here are a few of her pics:

Eric tried out the "new" Kentemere 400 in 120 (it's new in 120, but has been in 35mm forever). He shot these with his Mamiya RB67 in a cemetery on Christmas Day. His main question was "is it Ultrafine Extreme 400? And the answer is... probably?

Here are some of his pics:

 

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On this episode of Dev Party, Vania (@surfmartian on IG) tests out a new color emulsion - Wolfen Color NC 500 by ORWO! Meanwhile Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) developed Fomapan 100 sheets, including some with a half frame dark slide... you'll see.

Vania developed her shots in C-41, and you can see them below!

 

And Eric's are here:

 

 

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On this weird little episode of Dev Party, Eric re-enters the Tickle Tent – his portable darkroom tent – to tray develop some Fuji HR-U X-ray film. Badly. He does it very badly. Meanwhile, Vania develops two sheets of color and somehow winds up with four sheets. What is this trickery? Find out!

 

Here is what Vania came up with…

 

And here is what Eric’s done with Fuji HR-U at 100iso devved in Rodinal 1+100 for 4ish minutes:

 

And here are some shots of the tent:

 

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On this episode of Dev Party, we’re doing something a bit different. We’re not developing film, but making a few cyanotypes, bleaching them and then tanning them in tea and/or coffee!

 

Eric made three cyanotypes using Photographer’s Formulary Cyanotype Kit and a UV lamp. The lamp is made by Everbeam. It’s the 365nm 50w LED black light. The exposure times varied from 4 or 8 mins.

For bleaching, he used 1liter of water with 2tsps of sodium carbonate in it. This bleaches off the blue in under a minute.

And finally, for staining, he used 10 teabags of black tea brewed for around 10mins in 1.5l of water.

Here are the results:

 

Vania exposed her cyanotype with the sun. She did not bleach, but stained in strong green tea.

Here are her results:

 

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On this week’s spookyish show… we’re talking about x-ray film and x-rays in general, really. What are they? How’d all that happen and what’s with x-ray film? We’ll talk about cameras stealing souls, and also talk to Montana photographer Leland Buck (@leland.buck on IG).

After we field some messages concerning the emulsion our listeners would like to see brought back from the dead, we get into it.

THE ‘STEALING YOUR SOUL’ MYTH

We were kicking around spooky ideas for a spooky Halloween episode. So what we came up with was this idea that some cultures are afraid of having their picture taken because they supposedly believe that the camera will steal their soul.

It seems like so many stories told by photographers of their times among the Native Americans or indigenous Africans are capped off with the subjects refusing to be photographed. The reason, which most of us accepted as fact, was that these strange and superstitious people actually believed that the camera could steal their soul.

But this got us wondering… did anyone actually believe this? We did some digging.

HEY, LELAND!

Leland Buck is a Montana photographer who shoots x-ray film. But we didn’t just talk to him about that. We covered Montana, various emulsions and shooting styles, as well as a ton of tips for shooting X-ray film.

Here are a few of x-ray images Leland took:

More can be seen here.

THE HISTORY OF X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY

We’ve always kicked around the idea of shooting on x-ray film, but after trying, we couldn’t resist learning more about it.

1895 found German physicist,  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen,  in his laboratory experimenting with vacuum tubes. He didn’t exactly have a specific theory he was chasing. He was merely seeing what adding different variables to the already established science might produce.

This brings us to the “first” x-ray photograph. According to biographer Otto Glasser, the event went like this:

Röntgen “conceived another experiment for which one evening he persuaded Mrs. Rontgen to be the subject. At his instruction she placed her hand on a cassette loaded with a photographic plate, upon which he directed the rays from his tube for fifteen minutes. On the developed plate the bones of the hand appeared light within the darker shadow of the surrounding flesh, two rings on her finger had almost completely stopped the rays and were clearly visible. When he showed the picture to her, she could hardly believe that this bony hand was her own and shuddered at the thought that she was seeing her skeleton. To Mrs. Rontgen, as to many others later, this experience gave a vague premonition of death.”

Legend has tacked on an ending where Mrs. Röntgen saw the image of her boney hand and exclaimed “I have seen my death!” and fled the lab never to enter it again.

This little ending is probably apocryphal, but it makes for a good title, so we had to include it.

Here are some early x-ray shots – some by Röntgen, most by others.

There were poems and cartoons written and drawn about the dangers of x-ray photography – though these dangers weren’t what we know them to be now.

Here are two shots on x-ray film by Vania:

And here are two shots on x-ray film by Eric:

• Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954) Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm Film: Fuji Super HR-T X-Ray Film; 100ISO Exposure: f/4.5; 1/200sec Process: Rodinal; 1+100; 7min Pioche, Nevada July 2020
• Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954) Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm Film: Fuji Super HR-T X-Ray Film; 100ISO Exposure: f/12.5; 1/200sec Process: Rodinal; 1+100; 7min Pioche, Nevada July 2020

NEXT DEV PARTY!

On our next Dev Party, we’ll be developing X-ray film!

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And on this episode - the big 8-0! - we are talking to photographer Kristie Cornell (@kccornell on IG) and sculptor Marla Kristicevich (@marla_kristicevich on IG) about a project they collaborated on around Louisiana's Bayou Teche . We’ll also tell you about Esther Bubley, one of Roy Stryker’s photographers who became much more than just one of Roy Stryker’s photographers. There’s also the answering machine and some witty banter!

 

Kristie Cornell & Marla Kristicevish

 

Kristie Cornell and Marla Kristicevich collaborated on a project called Meander Mindset that took them down the 124mi length a Bayou Teche, a vital waterway in Louisiana. The project was a combination of photography and sculpture, as well as various other skills - all aboard a small 1970s Boston Whaler.

 

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kccornell/albums/72177720300912386

 

Kristie: www.kristiecornell.com

 

Marla: marlakristicevich.com

 

 

 

 

Esther Bubley

 

 

Lately, our stories have involved the various and alarming sexual escapades of any number of wriggling photographers. But not today! There’s actually almost nothing known about this photographer’s private life (which means she probably didn’t date Edward Weston!) 

 

Today we are talking about Esther Bubley, a Midwestern photographer who had the ability to essentially disappear into the background and capture people at their most normal and vulnerable - all while making them feel truly seen and understood. 

 

Here are some of her FSA images:

 

 

And here are her Assignment images:

 

 

 

 

Link her her government archives: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=LOT%20939&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co!=coll&sg=true&st=gallery

 

www.esterbubley.com

 

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Did you think that we wouldn’t try to figure out Arista Ortho Litho 3.0 yet again? You must not know us very well.

While Eric tries to see if he can get it to develop properly in HC-110, Vania taunts him by developing Ultrafine Extreme 400 in Pyro PMK (Eric’s favorite film/dev combo).

Here are Eric’s results – Arista Ortho Litho 3.0 in HC-110; 1+200; 15mins; very little agitation:

• 3 ISO
• 1.5 ISO
• 3 ISO
• 6 ISO
• 3 ISO
• 1.5 ISO

 

And here are Vania’s – Ultrafine Extreme 400; PMK; 1+2+100; 13min:

 

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In honor of watching One Hour Photo, Vania and Eric decided to develop each others film.

Vania shot Rollei Retro 400S in a Pentax 645. Eric developed it in Rodinal 1+25 for 10.5 minutes.

Eric shot Bergger Panchro 400 in a Kodak Brownie box camera. Vania developed it in Rodinal 1+25 for 7 minutes.

They take you through the development process and then check in the their futures to see what they think of the whole thing.

Here are some of Eric’s shots:

 

And here are some of Vania’s:

 

Also, Eric mentioned photos that he half-fixed and than refixed. This is what those look like:

Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F+ Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min Major Fixer Failure

 

Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F+ Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min Major Fixer Failure Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F+ Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min Major Fixer Failure Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F Plus Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F Plus Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min Camera: Imperial Savoy Film: Ilford Pan F Plus Process: Rodinal 1+50; 10.5min

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This episode is basically all Lora Webb Nichols. We’ll tell you a bit about her life, a little about her photos, and we’ll talk to Nancy Anderson, the woman responsible for saving her collection. And speaking of saving collections, we’re covering how places like the Smithsonian preserve their photography archives, and how we can all do a little better in our own archiving. Not only that, but Tiffen Sinclair will be dropping by once again! Oh, and we’ve got zine reviews.

Lora Webb Nichols

Lora Webb Nichols received her first camera – a Kodak box – from Bert, her future husband, a month after her 16th birthday.The next day, she took a photo of her mother in the doorway. In turn, her mother took one of Lora, and then one of Lora and Yankee, the cat. “My camera is the best fun” Lora concluded at the end of the roll.

 From this moment, until her death in 1962, Lora photographed everything, amassing nearly 18,000 photos. 

We will be sharing more of her photos on social media, but here is a nice collection:

 

You can read more about her, and see more of her photos here: http://www.lorawebbnichols.org/

Basically every single photo she took and collected are available to view at the American Heritage Center archive here.

Grand Encampment Museum: https://gemuseum.com/

Nancy Anderson

Nancy Anderson lived with Lora Webb Nichols in the early 60s, and now lives in the Lora’s old house. It is her we have to thank for preserving the unbelievably huge archive of Lora’s 24,000 negatives, including over 18,000 of her own. 

Nancy specifically mentioned a few photos during the interview. Here are the ones that we could track down:

 

Archive Everything!

The Lora Webb Nichols Archive was nearly lost due to a number of factors, but mostly improper preservation methods. So much more has been learned about the proper care and handling of photographic prints, negatives and plates since Lora began shooting in 1899. Even since her death in 1962, we have come up with what seems to be the gold standard of preservation.

So let’s take a look at how places like the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress and the National Archives are doing this. Obviously we can’t maintain their exacting standards, but it’s good to at least know what’s being done to preserve our photographic history.

Here are some links:

https://siarchives.si.edu/what-we-do/preservation/environment

https://siarchives.si.edu/what-we-do/preservation/storage-handling

https://www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-leaflets/5.-photographs/5.3-care-of-photographs

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/photolea.html

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/photo.html

https://www.archives.gov/preservation/storage/negatives-transparencies.html

https://www.preservationequipment.com/Blog/Blog-Posts/Blog-Categories/Archival-Storage

 

Zine Reviews!

On this episode, Eric reviewed Half-Frame Journal by Shawn Granton

You can follow Shawn @urbanadventureleaguepdx on Instagram. 

Pick up his zine here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1055795334/half-frame-journal-1-photo-zine

Created with GIMP

You can also pick up Eric’s new zine here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1076682381/in-this-land-vol-1-no-4-seattle-winter

 

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On this episode of Dev Party, we talk about our day in Lone Pine, California, the Museum of Western Film. We also talk about Museum of Western Film History, which we visited. There were some amazing clouds, some perfect skies, and some photos we’re super stoked about.

We also talked about the non-photographic mediums that have influenced our photography. How how safe it is to photograph lightening. There’s a whole lot here, really.

Vania developed Arista Edu Ultra 100 (aka, Fomapan 100) in FA-1027 (much more on this developer next Dev Party). Here they are:

 

Meanwhile, Eric developed a roll of Ilford Pan F+ that he shot at Lone Pine. He devved in Pyro PMK. Here are four:

 

Vania devved her Lone Pine shots a few weeks ago, and … well … check them out:

 

Concerning the non-photographic mediums, Eric talked about Andrew Wyeth, but also Albert Bierstadt. Here’s the Bierstadt he talked about:

Vania talked about John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia” … and as Polonius said, “I shall be brief.”:

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We are back from our long winter’s nap with a wonderful show for you. We’ll be talking with the amazing Kat Swansey (@katswanseyphoto on IG) about her new book, and then sharing with you another story of collaboration and love gone wrong with Lee Miller and Man Ray. We’ve got the answering machine question, and a bit of housekeeping, so welcome the hell back to All Through a Lens!

Kat Swansey

We first talked to Kat Swansey all the way back in episode 18. We fell in love with her straight forward depictions of small town Texas. But now she’s back with a book called Texas Textures, and we we’re excited as hell to hear what she has to say…

Her book: https://www.katswansey.com/book

Web: https://www.katswansey.com/

IG: @katswanseyphoto

And here are some of her photos:

 

Lee Miller and Man Ray

One of the topics we’ve been exploring lately is the idea of collaboration. We examined the love between Claud Calhoun and Marcel Moore; Talked with Taylor and Kate Miller-Wilson about their water-side photos; and most recently looked at the toxic dependency between Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston.

Today, we’re entering into the intense and desperate four year relationship between Lee Miller and Man Ray. How might a self-centered, aristocratic Vogue model of 22 get along with a short, odd, working class, surrealist photographer pushing 40? As we’ll see, Lee Miller was not your average fashion icon, and Man Ray wasn’t your typical surrealist. In fact, Lee might have fit that definition far better than Man.

Lee Miller and Man Ray shot hundreds of photos together. Some of them we can even share with you.

We also referenced a few other photos by Lee and Man separately:

 

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On this little ol' episode, we're developing some oldish film. It's not the most elderly emulsions we've devved, but hey...

Vania devved two rolls of color using the C-41 process:

  Emulsion: Kodak PRN Pro100 from the late 90s.

  Emulsion: Kodak Gold 200 from the late 90s

And here are a few photos Eric took:

• Camera: Mamiya RB67 Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan; x-1/1996 Process: HC-110; 1+90; 18min October 2020
• Camera: Mamiya RB67 Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan; x-1/1996 Process: HC-110; 1+90; 18min October 2020
• Camera: Mamiya RB67 Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm Film: Kodak Verichrome Pan; x-1/1996 Process: HC-110; 1+90; 18min October 2020

  Verichrome Pan; x-01/1996 Processed using the "Ansel Method": HC-110; 1+90; 18mins

About seven minutes into the episode, Eric and Vania talked about an ECN-2 kit mistake they've both made. Vania made hers about a year ago, and Eric did his just recently. Curiously enough, they both made the mistake on photos taken in the exact same place:

  Eric's is on the left. Vania's is on the right.

The mistake was that they accidentally skipped the water stop and wash steps immediately following the development step. Thou shalt not do this.

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On this week’s show we are laser-focused upon photobooths! Where did they come from and where have they gone? And what were they doing along the way? We’ll also be talking to Breanna Conley Saxon (@saybrebooth on IG) about … photobooths! She’s got a few and we get to talk to her about them! There’s the answering machine and zine reviews too. (We’ve even got some photobooth sound effects provided by Bre!)

After a bit of chitty chattery (Vania’s been surfing, Eric’s been not), we push the button on the answering machine. This episode’s question is:

Do you compose differently for color vs. black & white?

After listening to you folks, we gave our answers too.

Breanna Conley SaxonLET’S CALL BRE!

This episode, we gave a call to Breanna Conley Saxon (@saybrebooth on IG). Unlike most of us, she collects photobooths. Her journey has taken her from one coast to the other. From a Alabama thrift store to a Russian in Pennsylvania. And another Russian in California. It’s a weird tale, so hold tight.

We asked her everything we could think of about photobooths – from how she got her first one, how she learned to restore them and keep them running. Simple questions, but it’s quite a story.

Here are a few of her strips:

A QUICKISH HISTORY OF PHOTOBOOTHS

If you Google, “who invented the photo booth,” Google will tell you that it was Anatol Josepho in 1925. And that’s not exactly wrong. But it’s not exactly right, either. Josepho’s story is the most interesting and the most successful, but he wasn’t the first.

But who can resist the tail of a poor young man fleeing Siberia and attaining the American Dream? We sure can’t, so we’re going to talk about this fellow soon enough. But first we’ll dig into the 1800s to figure out where this whole idea came from.

Anatol Josepho sitting in one of his Photomaton photobooths, late 1920s.

We cover the many attempts before Anatol Josepho’s breakthrough and subsequent sale of his Photomaton.

Created with GIMPPHOTOBOOTH BOOKS AND RESOURCES

We recommended three books:

American Photobooth by Nakki Goranin Photobooth; A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald Photobooth by Babbette Hines

All three are wonderful, and there are definitely more out there.

We also mentioned two websites:

https://photoboothjournal.com/

http://www.photobooth.net/

SURREALIST GALLERY ZINE REVIEWS

We also reviewed two zines this episode.

Smash the Skatriachry – You can get it here or here.

Caveland – by Jesse Knifley (@hauntedfilmco on IG)

 

 

Old photobooth photo recently picked up by Eric. Note the rare use of a prop.PATREON SHOUT OUTS

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This episode’s first featured patron is Nick Gaylord – @gravity_train on Instagram.

 

 

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We’ve got a new logo!

On this episode, we talk about the Kansas town of Bison! We visited it this past summer and fell in love, shooting a LOT of photos there. Upon our return, we researched a bit about the town’s history and decided that it would be fun if we both developed Bison rolls while talking about the town of Bison!

Both of us shot Rollei Retro 400S and we both developed it in HC-110H for 13 minutes (this seems like an odd thing to do, but we did it anyway).

Here are some of Eric’s photos:

And here are some of Vanias:

In a curious twist of fate and bad organizational skills, neither of us ended up developing any Bison photos. Go figure.

 

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In this darkened episode of Dev Party, Eric and Vania develop Ilford Delta 3200, which they both shot under natural and incidental light in very dark places.

Vania captured surfboard shaper, Mike, plying his craft. And here are some of her shots:

 

Meanwhile, Eric developed two roles. The first was shot in Havre, Montana, and the other was in the courthouse in Paducah, Texas:

 

They both devved in HC-110B for 14 minutes.

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On this episode, we talk to Angel O’brien, @5x7angel on IG, about her strange and beautiful self-portrait and collage work. We’ll also be taking a long look at how Kodak advertised to women over a century ago – did they start a revolution or were they just along for the ride? Want a bit of advice? Well, Vania’s on call for that; we’ve got the answering machine, zine reviews, some recommendations, and a whole slew of fun!

 

Angel O’Brien: 5×7 Angel

When we first saw Angel O’Brien’s work, we really didn’t know what to do with it. What were we looking at? It’s a collage, but built around her self-portraits. And those self-portraits aren’t really part of a logical reality. They’re shifted and distorted, discolored and bent – but it all seems to be coming from a very centered place.

Here is some of her work:

IG: @5x7angel

IG @5x7angel_thebuiltworld

IG: @angelobrien.poet

web: https://www.5x7angel.com/

 

Kodak Girls

For women, this began to change in the 1870s. The suffragette movement had won for women the sense that men were more in the way than essential (though it had still not procured their right to vote). With the expansion of cities, the job market grew. And with more jobs than men to fill those jobs, women filled the positions. There were still gender norms, of course, but they were changing.

What women could and couldn’t do in society was shifting. Women were becoming independent. The new generation, especially those born following the Civil War in the 1860s, felt little need for the Victorian ways of their parents and grandparents.

They came of age and into their 20s just as photography was about to make a dramatic shift from the stunningly complex to simple. And it was gender norms that would actually carve out a large share of this new photography for women.

Here’s a sampling of Kodak’s Kodak Girl ads:

 

Zine Reviews

My Eye by David Fry – @frymanbandgb

Memento Mori – Nunhead Cemetery by George Griffin – Etsy

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While Vania developed some C-41, Eric took another crack at X-Ray film. This time he used a dark tent ("lovingly" dubbed "the tickle tent"). It's a weird tent with holes for your arms and room for four buckets of chemicals.

 

Here are a couple of Vania's shots:

And here are a few of Eric's:

And here are some behind-the-scenes shots from Eric's set up:

 

 

 

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Oh have we got a chaotic treat for you! We’re making black & white slides using regular black & white negative film! How? Why? We’ll tell you!

 

Vania used Foma’s reversal kit, which you can pick up here for a pretty penny: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/70150-Foma-Black-and-White-Reversal-Processing-Kit-for-Fomapan-R100

And she got such images as these:

Meanwhile, Eric attempted a method touted on blogs and YouTube, which uses HC-110, hydrogen peroxide and white vinegar. His results were not as lovely as Vania’s:

In both cases, the “negatives” were positives, but Eric is still trying to figure out what went wrong.

 

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Well that escalated quickly. We went from “hey there’s this weird flu thing” to “nobody leave their damn houses ever” in like a week (basically).

So we’ve decided to back up a bit and give folks who have never developed film before a somewhat wordy overview on how to do it, and what specifically to buy.

We’ll not bother with the entire run down here in the show notes, but here our list of things:

–Changing Bag (large) $24 –Leader Retriever$10 -Scissors (steal yer mom’s) –Developing Tank and Reels $35.00

–Kodak HC-110 $15 –Agfa Rodinal $13 –Ilford Rapid Fix $13

–Graduated Pitcher $11.00 –Thermometer (get two) $4

–Decanter (literally any 1l bottle will work) $6.00 -Timer (any digital kitchen timer – or phone, etc)

-Bucket for washing (optional) –Arista Flow (optionalish) $8

-Hanger and Clips (use coat hanger and medium binder clips) -Weight on the bottom (use a big ass binder clip) Or these: –Stainless Steel Clips $4 –Arista Stainless Steel Clips $7

–Kimwipes (optional) $4

–Printfile Sleeves $7

Massive Development Chart

Here are a couple of photos Eric developed this episode:

And here are a couple from Vania:

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On this episode of Dev Party we’re developing film and talking about the ethics of photographing abandoned places (sort of, you’ll see).

Eric shot some Kodak TMax 100, expired in 1991. And because of this, we talk a bit about what we were doing that year. We’ve forgotten a lot.

Meanwhile, Vania shot some Portra 160, also through the Mamiya RB67. Vania lets slip her complete lack of memory when it comes to 90s game shows.

Eric developed his film in 510Pyro 1+100 for 11.5mins. Here are a few of his:

Vania went with C-41. And here are her shots:

Right in the middle, we play a few minutes of an interview we did with Taylor (@taylarlar on IG) and Kate Miller-Wilson (@katemillerwilson on IG) about the “ethics” of moving stuff around for a better photo when visiting abandoned places.

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On this episode of Dev Party, we’re developing come in Eric’s DIY ECN-2 kit! We sort of walk you through the mixing and the developing, though there’s a lot of chit chat and small talk. Mostly, it’s just an entertaining little catch up.

Vania developed rebranded Kodak Vision3 in 120 (with “spokes”). Here are some of her shots:

Meanwhile, Eric developed Kodak Vericolor III, expired in 1997. Here are some of his:

Here’s a link to Terry Evans’ book, Heartland, mentioned by Eric:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780300190755&cm_sp=mbc–ISBN–all

 

We also talked a little bit about bleach bypass, and here are a few of those:

 

And here’s Eric’s collection of photos developed with his DIY ECN-2 kit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/conspiracyofcartographers/albums/72157702057532881

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On this week’s show we’re talking to the hardest working man in photography – Jamie Maldonado (@jamiemphoto on IG). Our feature this week is our first part of two about the Zone System – we’ll be doing our best to wade through that mess and tell you about how we’ve used it to take a few photos here and there.  We’ve also got the answering machine and a couple of zine reviews.  

 

JAMIE MALDoNADO

We called up photographer Jamie Maldonado for a chat about shooting “Distance Sessions” via FaceTime during the (ever-ongoing) pandemic.

Here’s a selection of his work:

And here’s where you can pick up his zines:

http://jamiemphoto.com/zines

BASICALLY THE ZONE SYSTEM

We are admittedly new to Zone System, but that doesn’t stop us from slogging through Ansel Adams’ prose in some sort of self-flagellation ritual.

 

We referenced a photo taken by Eric for most of this.

Camera: Mamiya RB67Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mmFilm: Kodak Verichrome Pan; x-1/1996Process: HC-110; 1+90; 18minOctober 2020

ZINE REVIEWS

We reviewed:

Monochrome Mania No. 3 by Mark O’Brien, which you can (and absolutely should) pick up here.

We also reviewed Venetiae Deerratus by Federico Quaglino.

 

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On this episode of Dev Party we develop some film and answer some questions submitted by listeners.

 

Vania (@surfmartian on IG) developed Cinestill 800 in C-41 chemistry. While Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) developed Kentmere 100 in 510-Pyro.

 

We covered questions about how to shoot Fomapan (really, how to develop it), what to do with 120 spools, and find out whether a cap of vinegar is acidic enough to turn 500ml of water into a usable stop bath.

 

Here are Vania's pics:

 

 

And here are Eric's - He's comparing Fomapan 100 to Kentmere 100, both shot at the same time with the same camera and same settings. And both devved in 510-Pyro, 1+100 for 7mins and 11.75mins respectively. Foma is on the left and Kentmere is on the right.

 

 

 

 

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Listen to us develop some fresh out of the can Soviet-era film! Meanwhile, Vania talks about her commercial shoot she did on film. Eric mostly asks questions and mixes up some chemicals.

 

Here are some of Vania's shots...

And here are some of Eric's:

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On this episode of Dev Party we talk about our week and develop a couple of rolls of something or other.

Vania developed some expired Vericolor III in C-41. Here are some of her shots:

Meanwhile, Eric developed Fomapan 400 in Pyro PMK. Here are his shots:

We also answer the question: is there a place where you took nothing but good pictures anywhere you looked? Curiously, we were both together when both of our answers happened. Amazing!

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On today’s show we’ll be talking about Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the 19th century, and how he used photography against slavery and racism. We’ll give a call to photographer Octavia Sharp, who has been photographing Mausoleums for decades. Tiffen Sinclair will drop by for some knowledge dropping, we’ll have a zine review, the answering machine, and so much more!

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Frederick Douglass is celebrated as one of the most important abolitionists in American history. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century – having 160 known photographs taken of himself. During the Civil War, he delivered four speeches linking photography to democracy and freedom. He saw photography as a democratic art form, widely available to the masses.  

From his first portrait taken in 1841 to his last, a memento mori captured in 1895, Douglass was photographed using nearly every process available at the time .

These 160 images show how Douglass grew as a person, as an abolitionist, and as a public figure. But why was history’s greatest abolitionist so in love with photography? To understand that, we have to understand a bit of Douglass’ own history.

 

Here are a selection of his portraits:

 

OCTAVIA SHARP

@octaviasharpphotography on IG

When we first saw Octavia Sharp’s work, it was like something out of a mid century magazine. The colors, the furniture, even the lighting and angles were all of another time. But upon closer inspection, there was something else going on there. These weren’t photographs of living rooms – these were all shot in mausoleums and funeral homes.

Here are some of her photos:

ZINE REVIEW

GrainyBlur by Alex Purcell

Alex introduces the zine simply by explaining that photography cannot just be described as a hobby; it holds many variations to him and I am pretty sure we can all agree with that. Alex made this zine with some of his favorite images taken with his pinhole cameras or as he puts it his lo-fi camera gear. As most of us can overlook these types of cameras Alex not only shoots with them but basically puts us all to shame. We really get to see how his creative eye and the limitations of slow shutters blend together in black and white.

Alex @grainyblur on Instagram and/or Twitter.

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On this episode, we continue our X-Ray fun by developing X-Ray film of our own!

Here are some of our results:

• Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954) Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm Film: Ultracruz Autoradiography Xray Film; 100iso Exposure: f/12.5; 1/200sec Process: HC-110; 1+100; 7min Lake Marie, Wyoming July 2020
• Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954) Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm Film: Ultracruz Autoradiography Xray Film; 100iso Exposure: f/9; 1/200sec Process: HC-110; 1+100; 7min Lake Marie, Wyoming July 2020
• Camera: Graflex Crown Graphic (1954) Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm Film: Ultracruz Autoradiography Xray Film; 100iso Exposure: f/12.5; 1/200sec Process: HC-110; 1+100; 7min Lake Marie, Wyoming July 2020

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We’re doing something a bit different this session of Dev Party – we’re stand developing color! What’s that, you say? Is that even a thing? Well it is. Sort of.

First, stand developing usually (always?) means diluted developer and longer times with zero-ish agitation. For instance, a lot of folks stand develop with Rodinal, mixing it 1+100 and letting the film stand in it for an hour.

This isn’t what we’re doing here. And yet, it’s called Color Stand Developing for some reason.

In this episode, Vania “stand” develops a color roll in C-41, while Eric does one in ECN-2 (the developer used for motion picture film).

In both cases, the used the regular dilution at 68F (20C). After pouring it into the tank, we agitated for a minute then let it stand for 45mins (rather than an hour). This was based on what most folks seemed to do.

When it came to Bleach/Fix/Blix, many people were doing them at around 45 minutes each. After digging into the science of it, we decided that it was unnecessary. Vania Blixed for the typically-recommended amount of time, and Eric did the same for the Bleach and Fixer.

But how did it all turn out?

While Vania liked her results, Eric was a bit unimpressed.

For him, this was part of a larger test to see how Fuji Color 200 would react to normal and stand development at various ISOs. He shot identical scenes in two rolls, metering for 25ISO up to 1600ISO. The results between the regular and stand aren’t incredibly surprising. The surprise came from just how well you can pull C200!

Take a look:

It’s an real quick (sort of) Ask Us Anything episode of Dev Party! We field a handful of questions from listeners while developing some film.

Vania’s taking on Fomapan something or other, while Eric developed some Ultrafine Extreme 400 at box speed. Both HC-110!

Vania’s in Fomapan something something.

The questions range from stuff about C-41 stand development to scanners to some questionable advice on what to do on your first attempt at developing.

Does Blix have less “archival” properties as a separate Bleach and Fix? Who knows!

Camera: Polaroid Automatic 250 with ND-P120 Back Film: Ultrafine Extreme 400 Process: HC-110 H; 7.5min

There’s lots of questions, a few answers and rather a lot of sass.

All Through a Tote Bag. [Link]

Eric’s DIY ECN-2 Kits. [Link]

Camera: Polaroid Automatic 250 with ND-P120 Back Film: Ultrafine Extreme 400 Process: HC-110 H; 7.5min

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On this fine little episode of Dev Party, we’re up in the air! Vania shoots some well-known skaters on Fuji Pro H 400 with the RB67. Meanwhile, Eric tests out some potentially oldish Plus X Aerial film cut down to 4×5… and it’s got sprockets! Why the sprockets? Listen and find out! Here are two of Vania’s:     And here are two of Eric’s:     PATREON Thank you to everyone who supports us! Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes, extended interviews, early drops. Tons of stuff! patreon.com/allthroughalens THE CREDITS OF ENDING Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers PATREON Thank you to everyone who supports us! Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes, extended interviews, early drops. Tons of stuff! patreon.com/allthroughalens THE CREDITS OF ENDING Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers Vania: IG, Flickr, Zines Eric: IG, Flickr, Zines, ECN-2 Kits All Through a Lens: IG, Website, Patreon, Spotify Playlists

It’s March! So that means – among other thing – Girl Scout Cookies! We’ve got a deep dive into the history of the Girl Scouts and photography! We’ll also give a call to Kate Miller Wilson (you might know her from her static electricity photos). There’s some news, some zine reviews!

But first, we check in with what we’ve been up to over the past week or so (give or take). While Vania was sick again and moaned about a crappy surf-winter, Eric did some shooting up at an abandoned dairy farm that used to be run by the Northern State Mental Hospital.

After a mention of the Reveni light meter, we move swiftly to this episode’s answering machine question.

Is the camera and lens combination you choose as important as the the film you choose?

We heard from a slew of listeners with a wide variety of answers, and we also gave our own opinions on the matter.

For our interview, we gave a call to Kate Miller Wilson (@katemillerwilson on IG), a large format photographer who has taken some amazingly moving photos of her children. Lately, she’s made some waves with her static electricity shots. We ask her about both, and she has quite a bit to say.

As a main feature, we run through the history of film photography and the Girl Scouts. From the very beginning, they offered merit badges for accomplishments in photography.

We take a look at the requirements, the officially-branded cameras, as well as some of the novels that feature scouts using cameras.

After a cookie break or two, we hop into zine reviews. Vania covers Thirteen Seconds by Ian Turpin (@ian_ctee on IG). Meanwhile, Eric looks at Periapsides by Jason Conklin (@ninlyone on IG).

Be sure to check out our Dev Party episodes. They’re about to get even more pee-inducing!

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

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On this episode of Dev Party, both Eric and Vania develop some very expired Panatomic X! What is Panatomic X? This legendary emulsion of old was once the most beloved black & white film of professional photographers of decades past.

Vania’s Panatomic X expired in November of 1982, while Eric’s went “bad” a few months earlier in June of 1982 (the same month Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like a Wolf” was released).

While developing, Eric regales us with a short and quick history of Kodak Panatomic emulsion, starting in 1933, and going up to 1987 (or 1989)!

Both developed in HC-110 (technically LegacyPro L110, but same thing).

Vania devved in HC-110, dilution B for 6mins. And here are a few of her shots:

Eric also devved in HC-110, dilution H for 9mins. Here are some of his:

 

 

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Welcome, won’t you, to the season finale of All Through a Lens. This is one hell of a show and we are, dare I say, stoked!

We’ve got such an incredible guest in Eian Miller-Wilson – you might recognize his last name – Miller-Wilson – from Kate (@katemillerwilson on IG), his mother. Eian appears in a slew of her photos, if you’ve seen her work, you’ve seen him. And we’ve got them both on!

We’ll also be keeping Kate around to talk about nearly-forgotten photographer, Nell Dorr. 

We’ll talk about our summer plans, there’s a zine review, and Tiffen Sinclare (@tiffen.sinclair on IG) will be dropping by.

EIAN MILLER-WILSON

We interviewed Kate Miller Wilson in Episode 14. Most of you are probably familiar with her work, especially the photos of her son Eian. Together, they have made some of the most ethereal and captivating photos we’ve ever seen.

It seems like it’s been ages, so we asked her to come back, but this time with Eian.

Here are some of the photos they’ve taken together:

 

NELL DORR (WITH KATE MILLER-WILSON)

At one time, Nell Dorr was a well known and adored photographer. She had books and gallery shows. She photographed the simple, the sublime, and the famous. But in the years since her final book in 1975, she’s been all but forgotten. None of her books are in print. Few of her published photos are available online, and even when it comes to listing obscure women photographers, her name is hardly remembered.

We aim to change that.

This will be a different sort of segment, as Kate Miller Wilson has agreed to stick around. In fact, it was Kate who suggested Nell Dorr – a woman neither of us had ever heard of before.

 

We each selected two of Nell Dorr’s photos to talk more about. These are the six:

Kate selected:

Vania slected:

• Nell Dorr (1893-1988); Popocatepel Mountain Mexico; 1925-1970’s; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; Bequest of Nell Dorr; P1990.45.252
• Nell Dorr (1893-1988); Mangroves; 1929; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; Bequest of Nell Dorr; P1990.45.285

Eric selected:

• Nell Dorr (1893-1988); Alone; n.d.; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; Bequest of Nell Dorr; P1990.45.438
• Nell Dorr (1893-1988); [Crucifix]; ca. 1936; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the Estate of Nell Dorr; P1990.45.431

ZINE REVIEW

We talked about Themselves Press’ Patreon a bit. This month it was based around Fever Dream by Jordan Brown (@cutestrongsadboy on IG).

Themselves Press on IG: @themselvespress

Charlie Chux Camuglia on IG: @casualscience

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On this episode we’re fluttering back to the 1860s to tell you all about Julia Margaret Cameron and her weird and ethereal photos . We’ll be talking to photographer and model Sarah Jean Achor (@sarahjeanachor on Insta). We’ve also got zine reviews and the answering machine. 

 

Sarah Jean Achor

 

On this episode, we’ll be giving a call to Sarah Jean Achor (@sarahjeanachor on Insta), a film and instant photographer from Columbus, Ohio. The photos she’s taken, as well as the photos taken of her play off each other in ghostly and dramatic ways.

 

Here are a few of her photos:

 

 

 

 

Julia Margaret Cameron

 

Julia Margaret Camerion is remembered for her theatrical and soft focus portraits depicting emotions, allegories, and biblical myths. Her photographs, taken in the 1860s and 70s, were staged more like paintings done by Rembrant and Raphael. Her work was loved by the artists and poets, but ridiculed by most other photographers. Over the course of a dozen years, Mrs. Cameron produced more than 900 finished photographs. 

 

Mrs. Cameron’s work was not only influenced by the Victorian era, steeped in legend and stories. But it was also a rebellion against the social norms and expectations put upon her.

 

Here are some of the photos we talked about during the episode:

 

 

We referenced Dorthea Lange's Migrant Mother photo looking very similar to Mrs. Cameron's Madonna Pensarosa.

 

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/cameron-julia-margaret/artworks/. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1990/julia-margaret-cameron-british-born-india-1815-1879/ PDF of the Complete Works of Julia Margaret Cameron: https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/0892366818.html

 

Zine Reviews

 

 

We essentially reviewed three zines this episode:

 

Twin Lens Challenge - https://www.danielnovakphoto.com/zines

 

The Bulldozed Future - https://longdistancerunner.org/

 

Initial Frames - https://www.mynameismwd.org/

 

 

 

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While we don't have a regular episode for you because we're on a much-earned winter break, Vania and Eric are doing a bit of a check in. Mostly we're discussing Kodak's price increases? Is it just in line with inflation or is Kodak realizing they have a monopoly? We give advice to those wondering what to do now they Kodak has out-priced them. And we also give some advice to the advice-givers (check your privilege, okay?). We also catch you up on stuff going on in our lives (like Eric has a new zine coming out in a few short days!). 

This is a very scaled back, low key show with zero edits. We'll see what you think about that!

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On this episode, Jess Hobbs drops by! Vania talks about the largest pinhole camera ever built, while Eric explains why Indigo isn't a real color. Jess dives into the weird "new" "Rolleiflex" "camera" prank.

Jess: IG, YT 

There's also a zine review and some interesting banter concerning the differences between US breakfasts and Canadian breakfasts. And guess which one of us has never had Tang.

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Think of this Dev Party as the introduction to the Third Season of All Through a Lens. We discuss the future of our humble little podcast while developing photos we shot after returning from our respective breaks.

Vania (@surfmartian on IG) developed Velvia 100F in C-41 because "I do what I want." It was a roll of 220 shot through her Pentax 645 in a waterhousing.

Here are a few:

Meanwhile, Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) developed two sheets of Foma Retropan 320 in Foma Retro Special (as the good lord intended). He shot them with Kate Miller-Wilson (@katemillerwilson in IG) through the Chamonix.

Here they are:

• Camera: Chamonix 45F-2 Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm Film: Foma Retropan 320 Exposure: f/64; 1/4sec; Red Filter Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min Washington January 2021
• Camera: Chamonix 45F-2 Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 5.6/150mm Film: Foma Retropan 320 Exposure: f/11; 1/125sec; Red Filter Process: Foma Retro Special; 4.5min Washington January 2021

 

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Due to popular “demand,” we’re developing Ilford FP4 in 510 Pyro!

Eric (@conspiracy.of.cartographers on IG) has used it a bit before, but Vania (@surfmartian on IG) tries it for the first time!

We both shot FP4, but Eric did 120 through the Mamiya RB67 and Vania did sheets with her Graflex Super D.

We walk you through everything, from mixing to washing.

It’s not the most available developer ever, so here’s where we got it:

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/510100-Zone-Imaging-LTD-510-Pyro-Film-Developer-with-Syringe-100ml

(The tech sheet with instructions can be found there too.)

Here are Vania’s pics:

 

And here are some of Eric’s:

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For our third installment of the Dev Party, we’re reviewing the new 120 back made by Normal M. Dean for the Polaroid Automatic Land Cameras (the ND-120. Eric’s shot a half dozen rolls through it. Vania, on the other hand, is developing some shots from Yosemite.

We’re both using HC-110! Could anything get more exciting than this? 

Here are some shots from the Polaroid:

And here are some from Vania’s dev:

 

 

 

On this impromptu episode of Dev Party, we’re going commercial! Okay, not really, but we *are* using Eric’s ECN-2 kit to develop Kodak Motion Picture film in 120! Now, this isn’t Cinestill – this is the raw stuff, complete with Remjet coating!

Remjet is a thin carbon coating on the non-emulsion side of motion picture film. It serves as a sort of dry lubrication (as the film speeds through the movie cameras) and provides some sort of anti-halation services (this is disputed, but whatever).

We first tell you how to mix the kit, which is super simple. And then we tell you two ways to remove Remjet: Baking Soda water and elbow grease.

Eric’s kits are available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/781436189/ecn-2-color-film-developing-kit

Vania shot Kodak Vision 3 500T in a Mamiya RB67, and here are her beautiful results:

 

Meanwhile, Eric developed two rolls shot in Vania’s Hasselblad 500C. He wasn’t trilled with the results, but hasn’t used the camera enough to feel any sort of comfort with it. Here are a few he liked:

 

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We are twinning today! On this episode, we both shot on Ilford HP5+, we’re both devving in Rodinal, and we both try to talk you in and out of making the switch to large format.

Not exactly offering helpful advice, we wander through the ways that large format is different from the smaller formats. For instance: it’s larger.

Basically, large format is a new hobby. But it’s a new hobby where you can take much of what you know and a little bit of what you already own.

We don’t get into lenses though. It’s already confusing enough without us mucking it up more. Intrepid Camera did a fine write up on that.

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All Through a Lens: IG, Website

On this episode we’re talking to photographer, podcaster, and YouTuber Jess Hobbs! We’ll also break out the lab jackets and talk about the science behind film and development. Not only that, we’ll welcome The Film Detectives  – they’re together again for the first time! We’ve also got some great answering machine responses, and a really special zine review, plus so much more… 

Jess Hobbs!

The videos produced by Jess Hobbs stand apart from your typical “dude behind a desk” YouTube videos. Hers are cinematic, they tell a story, they’re a quiet meditation. Her photography is simple and elegant with a quiet thoughtfulness to it. And today we’re talking to her!

Here are some of her photos:

IG: @jesshobbsphoto

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JessHobbs

Classic Camera Revival Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/classiccamerarevival/

Dora Goodman Blog: https://doragoodman.com/blog/

Emulsive articles: https://emulsive.org/author/jess-hobbs

Zines

This episode Eric reviewed Vania’s zine!

Get it here: https://vaniazask.com/zines

PATREON

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THE CREDITS OF ENDING

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

Vania: IG, Flickr, Zines Eric: IG, Flickr, Zines, ECN-2 Kits

Sara Murphy: IG Charlie: IG, Web; Themselves Press

 

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Sure, we've talked about Eric's DIY ECN-2 kits before, but we'll walk you through it step-by-step to make sure you've got it down.

 

We'll also talk about an alarming amount of non-ECN-2-related things. We get all chittery chattery on this episode. So you don't want to miss it!

And if you want to pick up the ECN-2 kit, you can do so here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/781436189/ecn-2-color-film-developing-kit

Vania devved one sheet:

 

 

And Eric devved two:

 

 

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Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

 

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We’re back for our second Dev Party and it’s a bit of bittersweet drama. We’ll get to that in a sec, but first, let’s talk about what we were developing.

Eric took on Tasma Mikrat 200 in Rodinal – yes it’s another test. And Vania is developing the same in HC-110. How does it all turn out? Let’s find out.

While we work, we talk about stop baths! Do you need them? What’s an acid stop? How about an indicator stop? Is water okay? It’s exciting, we promise.

At the end, we also delve into a bit of failure. You’ll see.

 

 

 

Website (and more sample pics)

IG: @allthroughalens.podcast

 

Finally… Finally Vania returns to Xtol, the developer that nearly killed her (in a very metaphorical sense). Meanwhile, Eric tries out Foma’s version of Xtol called Fomadon Exel. Both are ascorbic acid developers, and while Kodak claims that Xtol is good for “fine grain and high sharpness,” Foma claims that Exel is great for “fine grain and excellent sharpness”! The drama!

The real story here is the camera Vania used to shoot Tmax 400: The Maco! A plastic 1950s underwater camera that was more than a bit leaky. Seriously, she pre-washed her film in the ocean.

Here are a few of Vania’s pics:

Meanwhile, Eric devved Ilford Delta 400. Here are a few:

We also answer the previous episode’s answering machine question: How does anxiety/mood affect your photography.

And there’s a lot of banter about: crows, feeding crows, parking meters, change, surfing (obviously?), and one of us forgets that they’re recording a Dev Party. Guess who!

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On this episode of Dev Party, we’re mixing and trying out D-23! It’s got two whole ingredients!

D-23 was originally formulated to look like D-76. So how does it do? Find out!

Here’s the recipe: 750ml of water at 125F/52C 7.5g of Metol 100g of Sodium Sulfite

(mix and then add enough water to bring it up to a full liter)

Here are Vania’s photos (Ilford HP5+):

And here are Eric’s (Ilford HP5+):

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Somehow or another both Eric and Vania ended up developing slide film that expired when both of them were in high school.

Eric shot AgfaChrome 1000RS and devved it in ECN-2, while Vania took on Kodak PMZ Kodak 1000 in C-41

 

Here are Vania’s, shot at 200ISO:

And here are Eric’s shot at 50ISO:

 

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Welcome to our tenth episode! Have we got a packed show for you!

We start off with some much needed catching up. Vania’s been to the fictional city of Fresno, as well as Yosemite! Eric’s been to a waterfall where the owls are not what they seem.

Keeping things moving, we hear from a slew of folks about lines they won’t cross while photographing. A large part of photography is literally not taking photos. While some won’t photograph homeless people or children, others refuse to snap pics of injured roller derby skaters. Vania and Eric both weigh in on the thing as well.

Last episode, Vania mentioned the new issue of her zine in the briefest of passings, but now Eric tries to squeeze more information from her.

Speaking of zines, we talk somewhat briefly in the first installment of a how-to-zine overview. This time it’s about deciding upon a theme (or not), about titles, words and just getting your shit together.

And then we call up Adam Roberts – aka @icantstandpickles on IG. He has recently released a 3-D zine, which comes complete with 3-D glasses. You need to see this to believe it, and you can pick it up here (and should).

Changing gears for a few moments, we report on the execution photo of Ruth Snyder. Taken in 1928 by photographer Tom Howard, the image of a woman in the moment of electrocution was published on the front page of the New York Daily New. Soon the photo became more of a story than the execution itself.

Since cameras were forbidden in death chambers, how did Howard get this shot? What does this have to do with James Cagney? We shall tell you!

Moving on, we make our way to a couple of zine reviews. Vania talks about Leland Buck’s Paris Syndrome, while Eric digs into 365 No. 7: Analog by Trench Photos (@trenchphotos365 on IG).

In closing, we remind you about our mini-episodes (Dev Party), as well as what’s ahead in the next: a full review of the 3D printed 120 back for the old Polaroid Automatic Land Cameras. Eric got one and is in the process of testing it out.

In this episode, we are just kicking back, developing some film and having a lovely little chat. The conversation meanders from film to developers, from that one town in Idaho or maybe Montana to whatever.

Vania developed a mystery roll of Vericolor II (expired in the early 80s), and speculates as to what's on it. She devved it in C-41, though she obviously wishes she had one of Eric's ECN-2 kits.

Meanwhile, Eric developed a glorious roll of the greatest emulsion ever - Ultrafine Extreme 400. And he did it in Pyro PMK (1+2+100; 13mins).

 

Here are some of Vania's pics:

                 

And here are some of Eric's:

                 

PATREON

Thank you to everyone who supports us!

Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes, extended interviews, early drops. Tons of stuff!

patreon.com/allthroughalens

THE CREDITS OF ENDING

Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers

Vania: IG, Flickr, Zines Eric: IG, Flickr, Zines, ECN-2 Kits Tiffen: IG

All Through a Lens: IG, Website, Patreon, Spotify Playlists