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Click on a workshop below to reserve your place and pay online. ABOUT TINTYPES Tintypes or ferrotypes are positive images created by a wet plate process. The black “tin” plate is coated with collodion, exposed in a large format camera and processed in a darkroom before the plate is dry. HISTORY OF TINTYPES The tintype was (more…) ABOUT CONSERVATION FRAMING The decision you make and the materials you use in framing makes a profound effect on the future of your artwork. A professional framer should create not only a great presentation for your work but also offer a protective environment. Outside a museum type environment artwork and photographs are constantly bombarded with (more…) ABOUT PHOTOMACROGRAPHY Photomacrography is defined as images enlarged from life-size (1:1) to 40 times life-size (40x) in the camera. As early as 1835, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed insect wings and botanical material up to 17 times life size. Close-up photography refers to taking photographs from about 1/10th of life size up to life size. Today, there (more…) 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 sodium chloride (common salt) followed by a silver nitrate solution to (more…) ABOUT THE ALBUMEN PRINT: Albumen is a salted paper print with an albumen binder. Albumen from egg whites holding the photographic chemicals to the paper. Cotton paper is first coated with a salted albumen solution, followed by a silver nitrate solution to form light-sensitive paper. Exposure to light changes the silver chloride to image forming (more…) 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 sodium chloride (common salt) followed by a silver nitrate solution to create silver chloride. Exposing to UV light changes the (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 ‘print-out’ image, having some advantages in (more…) 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 be printed on clothing items. Decore – cushion, bed covers and lamp (more…) HISTORY OF INFRARED Radiation outside the visible spectrum was discovered in 1800 by Sir William Herschel. The infrared spectrum is from 700nm to 1200nm know as NIR (near infrared). The 1st infrared films were made in 1930. Infrared captures the invisible world beyond human vision. Digital (more…) ABOUT TINTYPES Tintypes or ferrotypes are positive images created by a wet plate process. The black “tin” plate is coated with collodion, exposed in a large format camera and processed in a darkroom before the plate is dry. HISTORY OF TINTYPES The tintype was (more…)
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