Film Photography

As a photographer, I’ve always wanted to explore the world of analog photography. I had learnt a little about it in my Visual Arts course in school in the IBDP, and during my internship at Harkat Studios, I finally had the opportunity to explore it practically. Harkat, being a Film Lab, has had it’s own practice in the medium of celluloid film for many years.

Some film from Pondicherry, February 2022, which I could develop at Harkat.

The images above were some of the few that came out from a roll of Fujicolor C200 that I had started shooting on a Kodak KB-10 point and shoot camera earlier in Pondicherry. I had next to no knowledge of film cameras and analog photography while shooting at that point, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them did not produce anything due to some error(s) on my part.

This roll was developed using the ECN-2 developing method in the lab at Harkat Studios. Karan Talwar, the co-founder of Harkat walked me through winding the roll of film in the camera, unloading it in the dark and loading it into the spool and then the whole developing process and finally scanning them and editing them using Negative Lab Pro and Adobe Lightroom.

The rest of the Fujicolor roll, which I finished shooting in Versova.

After Pondicherry, some of the roll was still left idle in the camera, so I took the opportunity to shoot it in Versova while I had the chance. Above are the results of that. These were developed along with the photographs from Pondicherry using the ECN-2 method.

Some more explorations on film. I shot these on a roll of expired 500-T on a Porst Reflex C-TL Super.

Once I finished the roll of Fujicolor, I shot some more images on a roll of expired 500-T film, on a manual camera this time, the Porst Reflex C-TL Super. I developed these using the ECN-2 method as well and scanned and edited them in the same manner.