DIGITAL NEGATIVE WORKSHOP
with Van Dyke printing!

June 1-3 2007 Tuition $275 Limited to 10 students


Are you a traditional analog or digital photographer who wants to craft your own images using exciting alternative methods like platinum-palladium, cyanotypes, gum-dichromate, and others? Would you like to see your images have that exquisite look of a contact print rendered on silver-gelatin black and white media? Until recently, and because all these forms of exploration are contact-printed, your camera has had to be at least as big as your pictures!

Not any more! With digital negatives, you can scan and enlarge your image in Photoshop, adjust it for appearance, and print your enlarged image as a negative onto inkjet transparency material using your desktop inkjet printer. This workshop will provide complete instruction using the latest methodology for creating digital negatives.

You will learn how to:
Prepare your image to fit the size of your intended contact-printed photograph.
Use basic Photoshop tools to modify your image to meet your expressive needs.
Calibrate your own computer system so that you can obtain predictable results.

We will then take your digital negatives for a “test drive” using the fun and easy Van Dyke Brown alternative process. The Van Dyke brown print is based on the first iron-silver process, the argentotype, invented in 1842 by the English astronomer, Sir John Herschel. The brown print gets its name from its similarity in color to the deep brown pigments used by the Flemish painter, Anthony Van Dyke. Van Dyke brown prints are simple and economical to make.

You’ll be working and learning at Washington State University Vancouver’s state of the art multimedia classroom with instructors Jeannette Altman and Neil Poulsen. The class size will be kept small, and you will have plenty of opportunity to work with the instructors and also with workshop coordinator and assistant, Robert Brummitt.

Later in August, photographer and nationally known guru Dick Arentz will lead an “Advanced Platinum Printing” workshop, in which he will explore in depth traditional film and digital negative platinum-palladium printing.

Tuition for Digital Negative Workshop covers costs of all materials.
For more information, contact Robert Brummitt, 503-614-0161 or robert8x10@hotmail.com.
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