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Ink Jet Negative Development

Lesson 42 from: Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography

Daniel Gregory

Ink Jet Negative Development

Lesson 42 from: Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography

Daniel Gregory

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Lesson Info

42. Ink Jet Negative Development

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

03:03
2

Overview of the Alternative Process

03:31
3

Overview of the Digital Negative Process

10:21
4

Working with Black and White Digital: What You Need

09:17
5

Working With Black and White Digital Images: Color Settings

08:33
6

Working with Black and White Digital Images Lightroom

07:01
7

Working With Black and White Digital Images Photoshop

11:57
8

Working With Black and White Digital Images 3rd Party Plug-ins

07:29
9

Avoiding Key Artifacts

20:26
10

Creating the Step Wedge for Curve Corrections

39:00
11

Organizing Your Adobe® Photoshop® Files and Curves

11:20
12

Setting Up the Printer

20:24
13

Lab Safety and Workspace Set-Up

03:49
14

Setting the Maximum Black Time

12:06
15

Getting the Initial Curve Test Numbers

20:04
16

Correcting the Curve

20:37
17

Printing the Curve

06:08
18

Sharing Curves

08:50
19

Caring for the Digital Negative

12:29
20

Intro to Cyanotypes and Safety

07:46
21

Paper and Brush Types

05:08
22

Coating Process and Cyanotype Chemistry

12:17
23

Making the Cyanotype Print

06:41
24

Washing the Cyanotype Print

12:29
25

Creating Cyanotypes Photograms

14:59
26

Toning Cyanotypes and Cleaning Up the Darkroom

18:43
27

Introduction to Van Dyke Printing

04:36
28

Setting Up the Van Dyke Workstation

05:20
29

Van Dyke Paper and Coating

05:10
30

Van Dyke Exposure and Developing

32:30
31

Van Dyke Troubleshooting and Resources

08:26
32

Van Dyke: Split Toning

18:56
33

Van Dyke: Wash Cycle and Drying

04:33
34

Van Dyke: Clean Up Process

03:51
35

Introduction to Platinum / Palladium Printing

14:15
36

Platinum/Palladium Coating Chemistry and Safety

09:58
37

Platinum/Palladium Paper and Coating Options

22:31
38

Platinum/Palladium Exposure and Development

22:31
39

Platinum/Palladium: Equipment and Supplies

16:48
40

Ink Jet Negative Coating and Exposure

15:25
41

Platinum/Palladium Chemistry Options

07:50
42

Ink Jet Negative Development

03:45
43

Platinum/Palladium Waxing Images

08:40
44

Platinum/Palladium Troubleshooting and Resources

27:19
45

Sharing Your Work Digitally

14:49
46

Archivability

10:39
47

Matting and Framing Options

30:22
48

Editions and Signing Options

13:54
49

Alternative Processes: Further Exploration

07:25

Lesson Info

Ink Jet Negative Development

Okay, so now we've got our experiment here that we're gonna pull out. And basically the print now you can't see much more detail in it. And the amount of exposure's gonna be a little bit different because it's going over the ink. So it may have needed longer time. It kinda depends on each image. But we'll go on ahead now. And what that should hopefully do is as it prints, it's gonna allow a little of the color to still come through, but the blacks will come through from the platinum process. So we'll go ahead, and the same process. We pour over the top and now we end up pulling in some of that detail. And I'll let this process for about a minute and then we'll go on ahead and then turn the lights on and see how much of that color got preserved. So with this process, one of the things that you can do, too, is you can come back in and start to really look at how to manipulate the color in that color file and figure out where is the color gonna show through and not show through. And then ...

you can use mask in PhotoShop to paint in and emphasize or de-emphasize certain elements of the color. On the negative, because it's a negative, remember what's black on the negative is gonna block up more of the color and what's white on the negative is gonna let through more color, 'cause it's clear, so it's gonna let more of the light through. So more of the platinum will develop. So you'll have that piece to look at. I was smidge bit off. There's a really black line here on the edge. So smidge bit off on the registration there. But it's a wheat field of moving grass and moving clouds on a long exposure, so it's a good one if you're gonna miss the registration a little bit. I'm not saying that I intentionally picked that one to demo, it was just blind luck. So okay, that'll come out here in just a second. It's then gonna go through the same process. So even though it had that ink underlay I'm still gonna run it through the exact same process. I'm gonna run it through the exact same steps. So we'll go ahead and pull that out of the developer here. And we can go ahead and flip the lights. Everybody in here is gonna blink rapidly for about 30 seconds. All right, so what I end up with now is you can see some of the platinum come through the image. I've got kinda a deeper color in the blue. So I can lay those side by side, there we go. So you can see this is the inkjet print, exact copy of the inkjet print, and then there's what the platinum did as it developed in. So now I ended up with kind of a really nice cool, those blacks really brought out and accentuated some of the color. I got back some of the pop in my yellow because the black is what creates contrast. And so basically what's happened is I've reinserted all the contrast back into the image, but I've been able to use that beautiful, beautiful rich deep black. It's also because I talked about how it pulls the fiber and pulls the chemistry in, it's created additional depth to the print that wasn't there before. So I've got that as kind of a cool little fun technique that I'm not gonna lie to you, I am very glad actually showed up. When you say to yourself, "Oh, I've got this great idea, I'm gonna try this thing." "Have you ever tried it before?" "No, but it's gonna go great."

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Alternative Processing Handout.pdf
Grayscale Percentage to RGB Values.pdf
MSDS Saftey Datasheets.zip
Bostick Discount Code.pdf
Matt Cutting Cheat Sheet.xlsx
Step Wedge Creation Spreadsheet.xlsx
Alternative Process Actions.zip
11stepwedge.psd
21stepwedge.psd
50stepwedge.psd

Ratings and Reviews

Diordna
 

For a long time, I have read, studied and tried alternative processing, mainly Platinum/Palladium printing. I want to create longest lasting prints and may be share the info at Creative Live. But this presentation saved me many a hours. A few minutes into the lecture, I purchased the class and as the class progressed, I was extremely glad. Thank you Creative Live, thank you Daniel Gregory.

SFX
 

Excellent class on Alt Process and fantastic bonus materials included with purchase!!! I have extensive digital printing and darkroom experience but haven't done much alt-process to date. This is perfect timing for me as I have several personal projects that I would like to re-visit using some of these techniques. Thank you Daniel!!!

James H Johnson
 

I have been making platinum/palladium prints for about 1 year. This is the 3rd workshop that I have attended. The first two were one on one. Daniel has done a fantastic job of covering the material and explained the process it detail and easy to understand. This course is fantastic and highly recommend it.

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