Printing For Profit in Platinum From Digital Negatives - The Concise Guide - Part 3/7 Part 3/7 - Materials.Digital negatives:Pictorico OHP film.....................................................Bostick&Sullivan / othersDarkroom/Printing:Developer...............................................................Chemicals supplier + DIYPalladium and platinum metals....................................Artcraft Chems. / B&S + DIYFerric...more
Printing For Profit in Platinum From Digital Negatives - The Concise Guide - Part 4/7 Part 4/7 - Darkroom techniques.COATING. Start mixing the solution in a short glass. For an 8x10" print I use 15 drops of ferric oxalate, 15 of palladium/platinum, and 1 drop of Na2 at 2.5%. Many books recommend more. I do not think it is necessary, for 30 drops of solution will cover an 8x10" print very well even with a brush.Note: At this point you may...more
Printing For Profit in Platinum From Digital Negatives - The Concise Guide - Part 5/7 Part 5/7 - The digital negative.Introduction.When people involved in alternative processes started printing with digital negatives, at first I totally ignored the new 'trend', being then focused on sensitometry tests, densitometers, pyro staining and so on. Although learning all that has proved to be extremely useful in the computer age too, working digitally gives us more consistency and better results in less time (plus other advantages). I now print from digital files only (except old work of course), directly from a digital cameras. Ditching heavy view cameras altogether (of which I was an avid user for many years) has also improved dramatically the quality of my work and made easier to capture the images that I want, when I want. When I have to print an old image (I have a large archive of 8x10" in-camera negatives) I generally contact print from the original negative, unless it is an important image, which I feel I will be printing again in the future. In that case I prefer to scan it (I use a Microtek full bed scanner) and prepare a digital negative anyway.I do not care whether...more
Printing For Profit in Platinum From Digital Negatives - The Concise Guide - Part 6/7 Part 6/7 - Presentation of the fine print.Spotting and etching.Spotting is done with just two watercolors, lamp black and burnt sienna (in tubes), mixed together accordingly. Spotting is an art and there is no magic bullet for it. Use a good magnifier. Keep...more
Printing For Profit in Platinum From Digital Negatives - The Concise Guide - Part 7/7 Part 7/7 - Selling platinum prints and final words.Selling platinum prints.If you are not interested in this section consider yourself lucky, because this is by far the most difficult part of the entire "process". Assuming that you are all set up to sell,...more
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