Through exploring analog film photography and at-home chemical development I've been able to dramatically improved my understanding of exposure and photographic techniques that are unique to analog film. The fun and unforeseen surprises of the chemical development processes has gone a long way in allowing me to relinquish some of the creative processes to sheer chance. When you limit your immediate gratification in the image making processes, because you often don't see your developed roll for a few days or even weeks, it allows you to have some time to digest the image and see it through a new light.
Shooting a variety of film stocks has been a fun exploration, but I have settled on shooting Kodak Vision 3 Cinema film that I bulk load into recycled cassettes. This film requires a special chemical processing due to its remjet layer. Remjet is a carbon layer backing on cinema stock used to dissipate static electricity that tends to build on the film as cinema cameras whip 24 frames through the film gate every second.
