[Broken_Hippo]

One of the popular trends right now is scanning a film picture or a piece of physical artwork and then adding things with digital means. I'm not sure that the film adds anything whatsoever - nor the physical artwork since digital is pretty good at mimicking all of it. I think it is all about the process and the skillset a person is showing off. In his case, he winds up with an image that has a lot of steps, has a lot of room for error (film processing), and not many people can repeat his exact process.

People pay for this sort of thing as much as they pay for a clever gimmick.

[ghaff]

I tried to muck around with color film processing once upon a time but I found it to be a PITA exacting process that was pretty much straight follow the recipe.

I totally get trying out B&W processing and printing for the sake of the experience even if I have no personal interest in trying it again. But color doesn't have any appeal whatsoever.