The Silver Eye : Jacques Revon : Best-Off : Alternative ecological developers

For over a year, I have been researching the possibility of developing black and white films in something other than a traditional chemical developer.

After many tests and experiments, I found that yes, it is possible!

Today I invite you to discover a selection of scanned negatives, and films from various brands, which have been processed using ingredients that have become, through successive research, so-called “alternative” developers.

I deliberately chose to photograph very varied subjects, in order to show that these alternative developers adapt to all themes, whether outdoors or indoors.

With my 19 cards/recipes already published on The Eye of Photography since September 5, 2023, the latest being a recipe proposed for making a chicory developer, you will be able to discover how to make yourself these ecological developers and experiment with them.

It’s a beautiful and rich adventure that I summarize for you here with these few photographs chosen according to the evolution of my research, a selection of images selected from more than 160 new but also expired films, 24×36 and 6×6.

All these negatives were therefore developed in different alternative developers. The caption for each photograph tells you the ingredient I used to make the developer.

I am attaching the links with my articles which will allow you to directly find, if you wish, the recipe for the corresponding alternative developer which you might like to consult.

Jacques Revon
Honorary journalist, author, photographer.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Revon

“Film photography is initially authentic because the negative remains, even if one day it is scanned and therefore becomes digital at the risk, as we know, of being later manipulated.. » Jacques Revon

Numbers of the photographs and links with the corresponding cards/recipes.

CARD / RECIPE 3. 1 November 2023

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/jacques-revon-a-magical-story-that-of-an-alternative-developer-2/

CARD / RECIPE 4. 15 November 2023

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-silver-eye-jacques-revon-the-ecological-alternative-developer-introduction/

CARD / RECIPE 15. 1 May 2024

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-silver-eye-jacques-revon-significantly-expired-negative-color-film-and-film-developed-in-standard-black-and-white-developers-and-in-alternative-ecological-developers/

Photos 1 / 15 / 21. CARD / RECIPE 2. 5 September 2023

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-silver-eye-jacques-revon-caffenol-as-developer/

Photos 2 / 8 / 12 / 13. CARD / RECIPE 10. 24 January 2024

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/the-silver-eye-jacques-revon-the-ecological-alternative-developer-with-different-aromatic-herbs/

And CARD / RECIPE 12. 8 March 2024