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

Johnson 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. His photographic process, like the equipment, also date back to the nineteenth century. The negatives were developed in Pyrogalol, contact printed on silver chloride printing out paper, and then gold-toned.

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