Friends, I am working with 4x5 format film and wish to make platinum prints. But I have a large inventory of photographs in digital format many of which would make great platinum, cyanotype or other process images. The trouble is, I find myself increasingly confused by the process of producing an adequate digital negative. Is it really as difficult and involved as it seems to be? There are many contradictory processes published in books and online. I'm about to give it up for lack of a well-defined process. Can anyone help point me to a simple, effective process for producing digital negs OR is there a vendor who will take a digital file and print a negative for me?
Thanks so much! Tim Householder I've tried a lot of different methods in my time and i've found that the Precision Digital Negatives (PDN) method to be the best. Other methods provide starting curves, which never work because of the variability that effect the process.
Something like water type, coating methods and something as simple as humidity can change how a negative reacts to the sensitized materials. PDN is great for 2 reasons; first it has a good solid method for figuring out dynamic range, which in my opinion is the first hurdle to overcome. Even if this is a far as you go, you will have a strong starting point from which to begin tweaking. The second brilliant reason I recommend PDN is because it is the first system to use colored negatives to give a stronger dynamic range. When printing to silver, for example, we know that it is insensitive to red, thus the red light in the darkroom. If we contact against silver using a traditional b/w negative it is hard to get a full range of tones. PDN introduced the idea of using different colors in a negative to produce deeper tones, which also lowers long exposure times.
This is something you will never be able to figure out using trial and error.
Mark Nelson Precision Digital Negatives
Mark Nelson I recently conducted extensive tests with Pictorico’s new Contact Print Film and found dramatic improvements over an already superior product. The new ceramic coating used with Contact Print Film will hold a much higher ink load, thus allowing more printer/ink combinations to produce contact negatives suitable for alternative processes requiring higher negative densities. At the same time, even with the highest possible ink loads, negatives dry and stabilize much faster—reducing problems such as embedded dust and pizza wheel tracks. This also means negatives can be used sooner after being printed. All this without increased dot gain and puddling. Negatives print razor sharp with very smooth tonal transitions. Increased toughness of the ink/film coating combination make negatives more scratch resistant and durable—allowing for more printings per negative.
Mark Nelson Precision Digital Negatives for Silver & Other Alternative Photographic Processes The future of fine art hand made prints blends the beautiful alternative processes of the 19th Century with the current cutting edge technology of inkjet digital negatives. Contact Print Film from Pictorico combined with thefor crafting digital negatives will produce the finest in hand made prints—rivaling and in some cases surpassing those made from in-camera negatives.
Precision Digital Pd765
The most exciting workshop for Platinum/Palladium printing and Digital Negatives available! In this exclusive alternative process workshop with Mark Nelson, master printmaker and photographer, you will explore the platinum/palladium process, one of the most beautiful printmaking mediums ever created. Honeywell software s. The extremely long tonal range of this process gives prints very subtle and delicate tonalities that surpass any other hand-made print. This four-day workshop provides participants with a complete experience of creating digital negatives from start to finish. The focus will be on workflows and techniques that produce a variety of types of prints that will give your portfolio a stunning signature look: full range prints, shadow prints, high-key prints, vintage prints, and gray prints.
Precision Digital Negatives
Mark will teach you how to combine analogue and digital methods that maximize tonalities to actually produce more tones than possible when printing inkjet prints. These advance techniques are only taught by Mark in this workshop. No prior experience with platinum/palladium printing necessary. Learn More: Cost 1250 Location.
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