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By
Brad Hinkel, Founded the digital photography programs at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, and
has taught at RMSP. Author of Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2.
Ron Reeder, Freelance photographer and technical writer. Ron has worked for several years conducting extensive research into methods for making high quality digital negatives.
Description
Digital Negatives: Using Photoshop to Create Digital Negatives for Silver and Alternative
Process Printing bridges the world of traditional
photographic printing with digital technology. A digital negative, prepared in Photoshop, allows you to skip the dark room time developing
the negatives?getting straight to a variety of printing processes including silver, platinum, and a host of other ?alternative? processes.
You will see this as an opportunity to mix technology with traditional photo processes resulting in more time for your art! In the recent
past, photographers that wanted digital negatives had to take their business to labs. Now all of you Photoshop users can incorporate
this practice into your workflow of choice.
Audience
Moderately advanced students of fine art photography. Potential readers include both students experienced in the fine art wet darkroom
who wish to use digital technology, and digital students who wish to experiment with traditional techniques.
Contents
Digital Negatives
Introduction
Why digital negatives
The advantages of Photoshop
Renewing challenging processes
A simpler wet darkroom
The handmade print
Can prints from a digital negative match a traditional silver print
Thinking beyond mimicking the silver print
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The Basics of Digital Negatives
Photographic processes are non-linear
Why this has worked well for so many years
Trying to create a linear
workflow in the digital world
Correcting for each printing processes
2. Capturing the Optimal Image
Sources from a digital camera
Exposing
onto film
Scanning issues
Color or black & white originals
Processing in Photoshop
3. A Basic Workflow for Silver Printing
The Ingredients
Preparing the image
Printing the negative
Exposure
Development
What might go wrong
4. A Basic Workflow for Palladium Printing
The Ingredients
Coating the paper
Preparing the image
Printing the negative
Exposure
Development
What might go wrong
5. Exposure
Your Light Source
Printing
the step table
Determining the base exposure
Measuring exposure
6. Creating Correction Curves
Why we need to create individual correction
curves
Identifying a good printed step tablet
Scanning the step tablet
Set the End Points
Measuring the data
Making the correction curve
Testing a correction curve
How we track our curves/processes/prints
7. Calibrating the System
Configuring Grey Working Space
Calibrating
your monitor
8. About Printers
Working with some specific Printers we have used
- Epson R2400, 2200, C86 (4000, 4800)
Configuring other
types of printers
- Determining the best settings for your printer
- Issues regarding printing
- Print Media
9. Notes on Equipment and
Workspace
The Wet workspace
Light Sources for exposure
Is Visible light or UV light printing easier?
10. Tuning the Fine Digital Negative
Print
Variable Contrast Paper for Silver Printing
Contrast agents for Palladium Printing
11. Manipulatory Miseries
Some common problems,
how these arise and how we address them.
12. Platinum over Color Printing
A new process for color images
CMY – K separations
Printing
the color separation
Printing the negative
13. Finishing Techniques
Coating the print – wax, varnish, acrylic
Edge treatments
Framing
14. Experimenting with the Unknown
A list of some experiments that we have tried, our results, and some possible next steps for further
experimentations. These include: color & cyanotypes, printing with two negatives, gold prints, uranotypes, digitally creating silver
darkroom negatives, localized solarization.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80854-3
ISBN-10: 0-240-80854-1
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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