Carbon Transfer Advanced Four Colour- Ellie Young – 4 Days


  •  April 12, 2024 - April 15, 2024
     9:30 am

Four Colour Carbon Transfer Advanced. This workshop teaches students how to transfer four colour carbons onto clear glass, white opal glass  and various metals. The Glass and metal surfaces enhance the relief on the surface of the carbon. ABOUT THE CARBON PROCESS The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented (more…)

Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric – Ellie Young-1 day


  •  May 4, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can (more…)

Kallitypes – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 5, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT THE KALLITYPE PRINT: Although often confused with Van Dyke Brown and Argerotypes it is more related to platinum and palladium printing in its evolution and tonal values. Due to this it was known as “the poor man’s platinum print”, when the image is toned in platinum or palladium the result is chemically close to (more…)

Cyanotype Classic, Simple & New – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  May 18, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT CYANOTYPE This process requires no other chemicals, can be exposited in sunlight and developed simply in water. Cyanotypes provide a beautiful image in stable Prussian blue pigment. The image colour may be easily modified by a variety of toning agents. THE CANOTYPE HISTORY Sir John Herschel’s Classic/traditional cyanotype process, now practiced for 166 years, (more…)

Platinotype – Platinum/Palladium Printing – Ellie Young -1 Day


  •  May 19, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT PLATINIUM AND PALLADIUM PRINTING: Printing in platinum and palladium is acknowledged as the summit of alternative processes – images formed in totally permanent ‘noble’ metal, exquisitely graduated in tones of neutral grey or warm sepia, with a beguiling luminosity in the high values. This modernized version provides a (more…)

Salt and Albumen Printing – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  June 1, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aliened not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of (more…)

New Chrysotype – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  June 2, 2024
     9:30 am - 5:30 pm

ABOUT NEW CHRYSOTYPE PRINTING The New Chrysotype process has tonal and surface qualities and permanence like Platinotype-Palladiotype, but the added feature of beautifully muted colours, controlled by the chemistry and physics of the process. The photographic artist should find here a whole new palette of non-literal colour to explore (more…)

Carbon Transfer Four Colour – Ellie Young – 3 Days


  •  June 14, 2024 - June 16, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Four Colour Carbon ABOUT THE CARBON PROCESS The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855. The process was later adapted to color, through the use of pigments, by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron in 1868. Carbon photographs were the (more…)

Colour Reversal RA4 – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  June 29, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

RA4 colour reversal direct positive printing uses colour photo paper, exposed in camera with illumination filtration and then processed to give a colour positive image. This is a hands-on workshop: You will be exploring elements of reversal colour  photography using Fuji-film Cristal Archive mat and gloss paper  4 x 5 and 8 x 10 paper. (more…)

Dry Plate Negatives – Ellie Young – 1 Day


  •  July 6, 2024
     9:30 am - 4:30 pm

ABOUT DRY PLATE NEGATIVES When photographing In the field silver gelatin dry plate negative process can be more practical than the wet collodion process. Emulsion is poured on the glass plate and dried before taking it out in the field. The blue-sensitive emulsion gives the unique feel of 19th century photographs. They are also more sensitive to (more…)