Platinum / Palladium Printing Workshop

This weekend we ran the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series of workshops on Alternative Processes.

Digitally Enlarged Negatives and Platinum / Palladium Printing with Dave Aharonian offered an opportunity for six enthusiastic and talented photographers to learn how to merge the advantages of digital darkroom technology to make enlarged negatives with one of the oldest and finest printing processes.

One of the great aspects of Platinum / Palladium printing is that you can work in a room lit with standard tungsten lights so long as all UV light such as daylight or fluorescent light is blocked, making the process quite comfortable and perfect for teaching.

Here is a selection of snap shots from our printing workshop session today.

Workshop instructor Dave Aharonian prepares the Palladium emulsion.

Coating the fine art paper with a brush is an art that takes some practice.

Placing the printing frame - with enlarged negative and sensitized paper - into the UV exposure box.

The developer is poured directly onto the exposed paper - image development is instant.

Having the computer and printer on site allows for adjustments to the image and a new negative to be printed if required. Time for the class to start printing....

If you are interested in this workshop, or other alternative processes please contact us. If we know there are people out there looking for these courses we will definitely keep them in our workshop lineup.

I want to thank Tony Bounsall at The Victoria College of Art for providing such a great facility.

QG

Update on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 7:41AM by LÚZ Gallery

NEW COURSE: JUNE 2010. View here.