Van Dyke: Clean Up Process
Lesson 34 from: Introduction to Alternative Processing in PhotographyDaniel Gregory
Van Dyke: Clean Up Process
Lesson 34 from: Introduction to Alternative Processing in PhotographyDaniel Gregory
Lesson Info
34. Van Dyke: Clean Up Process
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:03 2Overview of the Alternative Process
03:31 3Overview of the Digital Negative Process
10:21 4Working with Black and White Digital: What You Need
09:17 5Working With Black and White Digital Images: Color Settings
08:33 6Working with Black and White Digital Images Lightroom
07:01 7Working With Black and White Digital Images Photoshop
11:57 8Working With Black and White Digital Images 3rd Party Plug-ins
07:29Avoiding Key Artifacts
20:26 10Creating the Step Wedge for Curve Corrections
39:00 11Organizing Your Adobe® Photoshop® Files and Curves
11:20 12Setting Up the Printer
20:24 13Lab Safety and Workspace Set-Up
03:49 14Setting the Maximum Black Time
12:06 15Getting the Initial Curve Test Numbers
20:04 16Correcting the Curve
20:37 17Printing the Curve
06:08 18Sharing Curves
08:50 19Caring for the Digital Negative
12:29 20Intro to Cyanotypes and Safety
07:46 21Paper and Brush Types
05:08 22Coating Process and Cyanotype Chemistry
12:17 23Making the Cyanotype Print
06:41 24Washing the Cyanotype Print
12:29 25Creating Cyanotypes Photograms
14:59 26Toning Cyanotypes and Cleaning Up the Darkroom
18:43 27Introduction to Van Dyke Printing
04:36 28Setting Up the Van Dyke Workstation
05:20 29Van Dyke Paper and Coating
05:10 30Van Dyke Exposure and Developing
32:30 31Van Dyke Troubleshooting and Resources
08:26 32Van Dyke: Split Toning
18:56 33Van Dyke: Wash Cycle and Drying
04:33 34Van Dyke: Clean Up Process
03:51 35Introduction to Platinum / Palladium Printing
14:15 36Platinum/Palladium Coating Chemistry and Safety
09:58 37Platinum/Palladium Paper and Coating Options
22:31 38Platinum/Palladium Exposure and Development
22:31 39Platinum/Palladium: Equipment and Supplies
16:48 40Ink Jet Negative Coating and Exposure
15:25 41Platinum/Palladium Chemistry Options
07:50 42Ink Jet Negative Development
03:45 43Platinum/Palladium Waxing Images
08:40 44Platinum/Palladium Troubleshooting and Resources
27:19 45Sharing Your Work Digitally
14:49 46Archivability
10:39 47Matting and Framing Options
30:22 48Editions and Signing Options
13:54 49Alternative Processes: Further Exploration
07:25Lesson Info
Van Dyke: Clean Up Process
Last piece I wanted to talk about is in the clean up process the toner you're going to save cause you can replenish it and reuse it. So can just go into a dark colored jar. Your wash goes down the drain unless by local disposal rules you're not allowed to do that. But the fixer, so the fixer is is sodium phiosulfate mixer you're gonna come up with. This can be used over over again, until it exhausts. And there's a little test you can use. There's some little drops you can put in there. Depending on the size, it's, somebodies gonna ask, well how many prints can I run through It's gonna depend on the size of the print. Amount of chemistry you have. So it's hard to give you an exact number. How much you mixed up. But in general you'll get 20, 30 prints probably before it starts to degrade. But this can not go down the drain. This has the residual silver that's left in it. If you have a septic system, that silver will kill your process like that. If you're in the municipal system, it kills...
the system like that. And heavy metals really probably shouldn't be put back into our drinking water and waste water. So, this one we definitely want to dispose of properly. There's a couple of ways to do that. You just basically dump it into a, I put mine into old, get distilled water that I'm using, it just goes back into the distilled water jug when it's done. I write fixer on the outside. Cause I'm not like oh distilled water. Goes in there and then most municipalities have a hazardous waste place which will actually recycle that. A lot of, if you're in a major city, that has a photo school or a university that has a photo chemical department. They'll often times have what's called a silver reclamator, and you can just take it and you dump it into their reclamator and the machine pulls the silver out and then the school can sell the silver off and they can make money to help pay for different elements or different aspects of the program through the reclamation of the silver. Another option you can do, is if you drop steel wool into the bottom, this is my favorite from a chemistry standpoint, you drop steel wool into the bottom of your fixed container that's expired and then come back a few weeks later and the silver will have plated to the steel wool. So you end up with this silver steel wool plated and then at the point where all the silvers out of there you end up with basically an inert liquid. So that's another process and there's methods for that online. But the safest, most responsible way to do. Send it off to the hazmat center. They'll repurpose it, take care of it properly. Probably reclamate it. Or like I said, if you have a school, it's a great way for them to find some way to get some income, particular in the time when it's hard for schools to get funding. The photo school I work at, we reclamate a lot of silver. We make a few thousand dollars a year usually on silver reclamation coming off of the various prints and things like that. So I haul mine, I'm down to that. You can just look for a school and it's called a silver reclamator, is the thing you want to ask for. Alright, so any questions from anybody? I did have a question online from SFX who said, would you follow the same bath process on a wood substrate, if you, you were talking about processing onto other types of material. Following the process I would follow the exact same process. You gotta get to the same, you gotta wash off the residual salts. You gotta fix it so that it has some level of permanence. Now, how long it would be in the fixer, things like that would require some experimentation. But that'd be a great question. There are some alt processing forums up on, they just moved PhotoRio is a name of a website that is a lot of alt processors are up there. And then, like I said, that information is probably I guess Sandy, King, or Mike Where somebodies probably got some fixing information about using wood. But yeah, that would be a, definitely the same process would be used. The time I don't know how to answer that.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with Purchase
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.