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Alice Harper

@proharpist.bsky.social

Moviemaker. Committed many photographic sins. linktr.ee/AHarpist

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It's always surprising how good the results can be from available ingredients. Mint-based developers create low grain and highly detailed images with solid density. It's also much more pleasant to work with these developers compared to more toxic commercial products or the stink of caffenol.

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12.08.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's always surprising how good the results can be from available ingredients. Mint-based developers create low grain and highly detailed images with solid density. It's also much more pleasant to work with these developers compared to more toxic commercial products or the stink of caffenol.

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12.08.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

DM'd you!

12.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up on the list of polyphenolic developer ingredients is Spearmint, which I happened to have lying around. Boiled it up and made a tea. This worked very well and I think could be used reliably in the future as an easily renewable, cheap and sustainable developing solution.

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12.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next up on the list of polyphenolic developer ingredients is Spearmint, which I happened to have lying around. Boiled it up and made a tea. This worked very well and I think could be used reliably in the future as an easily renewable, cheap and sustainable developing solution.

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12.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Caffenol Delta recipe ended up working really nicely for slow-speed, low silver-content film. These Kentmere 100 stills were overexposed by a stop and pull-processed for some very clean and dense negatives.

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08.08.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I really like the look of a lot of higher speed film with this recipe, like HP5. Really nice grain texture and highlight roll off on these ones.

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08.08.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Most of these are my attempts to find a developing agent with a balance of low toxicity, affordability and reliably pleasing results. Here are my first attempts at a basic caffenol recipe.

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08.08.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A thread of film developing experiments. Part 1 of ?

08.08.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Adrift has been officially selected for the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025, as part of the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize!!! It’ll be playing on the 22nd of March at 1pm at the GFT, so come along and give it a watch! Link for tickets and the official program are in my bio.

19.02.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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