The images on this website are digital versions of much higher quality originals. The photographs were shot with large and medium format film cameras, which produce extreme and subtle detail that is not apparent on the website.

Devon primarily shoots with an antique 8×10 view camera, as well as an array of antique lenses, which were all available over a hundred years ago. The vignetting seen in many of the photographs is the result of working with this antiquated equipment. Devon also shoots with a more contemporary 4×5 camera, paired with modern lenses, when more technically precise rendering is required.

The historical photographic process work, like some of the equipment, also dates back to the nineteenth century. The negatives were developed in Pyrogalol, contact printed, and toned. Pyrogalol developer was first discovered by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The images were contact printed on silver chloride printing out paper and gold-toned, a process that dates back to 1884.

The black and white, and color work also utilizes the same large format equipment. Negatives are shot using 8×10 or 4×5 cameras. Black and white prints are contact printed, or enlarged, onto traditional fiber papers. Color prints are made from the negatives using the RA-4 process. These traditional processes are able to render detail that far surpasses that of contemporary digital printing processes.

This higher resolution scan more accurately represents the high level of detail captured in an 8×10 contact print.