I have recently attended a workshop, lead by artist Scott Hunter who presented his own experience of the use of organic material to develop analog medium. The image above is a scan of a negative processed with the use of moss soup. After the initial testing of a film strip it was decided that the film will be developed for 29 minutes. Then after seeing results of other participants, the timing was extended to 31.5 minutes. The film came out thin as most of the images were taken in dark environments and hence they weren't properly exposed. It certainly helps to know in what conditions the photographs were taken in order to allow for longer or shorter processing times. The film was washed with water and fixed with standard Ilford chemistry.
Having seen examples of Scott's images developed with moss it was an exciting experiment and I can see how this could be used to accentuate a project. I myself have in the past used water collected from the river Clyde to reflect in the images of water I took (see my Out Beyond project here). Although I wasn't fascinated enough with the results of using organic matter to process my 'usual' photographs, I can see that knowing of this possibility can be used in the future, especially when the topic of my work is nature.
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