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…)
Four Colour Carbon Transfer Advanced. Please Note Dates have changed 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 (more…)
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Black and white print is more commonly known as silver gelatin or gelatin silver darkroom printing. Ellie has been been printing in the darkroom for more than 40 years and has worked with the art, craft and science of ‘alternative’ photographic processes since 1994. More information click professional instructors. Black and white print (more…)
ABOUT THE OPALOTYPE PROCESS Opalotypes were printed on sheets of opal white glass; traditional were sometimes hand-tinted with colors to enhance their effect. The basic opalotype technique, involving wet collodion, silver gelatin and to a lesser degree carbon. The Process was patented in 1857 by Glover and Bold ofLiverpool. Opalotypes are created by the carbon (more…)
ABOUT THE WET PLATE PROCESS: Tintypes, Ambrotype and wet plate glass negatives. A plate is coated with collodion emulsion and sensitized, exposed in a large format camera and processed in the darkroom. The name wet plate is used as the solution must remain wet during the whole process. It loses its sensitivity to light when (more…)
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…)
COMBINATION PRINTING: GUM OVER CYANOTYPE/PALLADIUM/ ZIATYPE ABOUT THE PROCESS Gum prints are essentially photographically controlled watercolor prints made in a 19th Century process called gum bichromate. Gum arabic is mixed with watercolor paint and photosensitive dichromate, and painted onto paper. When exposed to light in contact (more…)
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…)
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…)
ABOUT LITH PRINTING Lith Prints are usually warm-toned prints with a unique combination of subtle low contrast properties in the highlights, warm mid-tones, and high contrast colder tones in the shadows. It is an extremely flexible process and many variations may be found from highly graphic to soft ethereal effects. Lith prints tone well in selenium (more…)
