Love alternative processes?

We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, or share your own experiences with others. Welcome.

Workshops

CAP-Carbon Printing with Lisa Elmaleh (Saturday and Sunday September 15 & 16, 2012)

Students learn how to make carbon tissues from gelatin, glycerin, sugar, and watercolor pigment.

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CAP-Albumen with Brenton Hamilton (Saturday and Sunday October 20 & 21, 2012)

The exquisite 1860′s albumen process will be investigated and introduced in this workshop. Paper will be coated with egg albumen then sensitized with silver nitrate.

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CAP-Cyanotype “Play Night” with Robert Schaefer (Tuesday October 30, 2012)

This is a 4-hour opportunity to produce cyanotypes and meet others working with this printing process.

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CAP-Into the Ether: Intro to Wet Plate with Joni Sternbach (Saturday and Sunday November 3 & 4, 2012)

This two day hands-on workshop is an introduction to the wet plate process.

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CAP-Wet Plate Shooting Night (Thursday November 15, 2012)

This is a 5 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers.

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Daguerreotype: A Contemporary Approach / Jerry Spagnoli, July 29 – August 3, 2012

This class presents a method for producing high quality daguerreotypes without the use of the dangerous chemicals usually associated with the process.

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Alternative Process Crash Course / Tom Persinger, July 29 – August 3, 2012

Together and intensively we'll work through the new, 14 lesson F295 Historic Process Workbook.

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Gum Printing Then and Now / Christina Z Anderson, August 5-10, 2012

Christina will guide you through the pleasures (and pitfalls) of the gum process from 1839 to the present day digital era.

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Platinum Printing In The 21st Century / Tillman Crane, August 12-17, 2011

In this workshop you will work with both the traditional and the NA2 platinum/palladium printing processes.

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Carbon Transfer / Sandy King, August 19-24, 2012

What materials, including light sources, are necessary for printing with alternative processes, and how to use them?

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Polymer Gravure / Diane Alire, August 19-24, 2012

In this workshop you will learn how to prepare your photographic images and your drawings for the gravure process.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITURE: Photographing the Book and its Cover / Kurt Fish, August 26-31, 2012back

If you would like to be able to make portraits in any environment, using existing light only, in a minimum amount of time and with predictable results, this is the course for you.

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iPhone Artistry / Dan Burkholder, September 2-7, 2012

This is your opportunity to learn the creative power and stunning output that is possible from your iPhone from one of today’s leading experts in “iPhoneography”.

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The Gum-Platinum Print and Making Digital Negatives with QTR / Kerik Kouklis, September 9-14, 2012

You will begin by learning to make high quality digital negatives using the Quad Tone RIP (QTR) program and Epson printers.

Open blog

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Thoughts on Faux-Alt-Process Digital Images

Thoughts from Elizabeth Graves on why new digital imaging technology is often used to imitate the appearance of old, chemical photography.

Chrysotypes

Texas chrysotype formula

Richard Puckett's process for printing continuous tone gold prints is simple and affordable. It is a true dry print out process: you can examine the print during exposure to determine when you image is just right.

Cyanotype photographers

University of Delaware, 2012

North American photographers – East & East Coast From: Delaware, USA. Shows: Cyanotypes, Gum over cyanotype and Vandyke browns. See gallery

Open blog

Teaching Winter Session, Week 5

Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week five and the course is finished.