As most of you might have figured out already I am a holistic filmphotographer,
living half of the year on the road in The Bus.

A picture starts with me being in an equilibric state of mind, driving around
aimlessly, and ending up in some spot to spend the night. When I wake up
next morning, I usually find myself in a picture (#holistic). I can already see it
from my bed:

So I gather all my (rather heavy) equipment, and lug it up on the roof:

It takes me about 15 minutes to set up my camera. Then, after some time of fiddling,
finding a good framing, some cigarettes and a lot of staring at the picture on the
focussing screen, I take the picture on an almost A4 sized sheet of film.
Very good quality, and very expensive.

Developement:
^{Disclaimer: This is a dirty job!}
When on the road I develop my colour films in The Bus. Developement means
immersing the film in 'C41'-chemistry for a certain time at a certain temperature. The
result is the Negative (an inverse image), from which positive prints can be made.
For the C41 developement I put the films into a drum. It is light proof, I can
fill it with chemistry and I can rotate it.
The chemistry should be at exactly 38°C/100 °F. Normal film processors use hot
water to warm up the chemistry. On a warm day, I can use the sun for that.

I start with filling the drum with the Developer and rotating it by hand for 3.15 min.
The second chemistry is the Bleach/Fix, which takes another few minutes
(time and temperatur is only crucial for the Developer).
Then the films go into water for some time.

Next they go up for drying. On a hot day this takes only a few minutes.
^{Drying films like on the picture guarantees a bit of the oh-so-nice dust :)}

Now they are ready for printing.

Chemistry I use: Tetenal Colortec. The link goes to Nordfoto in Europe.
In the US you can order it as Press Kit via B&H in New York.

btw.: you can also use this process at room temperature. Developement time goes up to appr. 17 min., and contrasts will be a bit lower.

Try it out!

After the process of printing, which I might describe in another posts, the print is finished, and after scanning and some small adjustements it's

Voila! here's the picture:

^{Bridge over the Gulf of Korinth, Scan from c-Print}

^{btw. again I skipped some boring steps}

^{This is a rewrite of 2 articles I posted more than a year ago; very few steemians saw it then...}