Create expressive, high-quality images designed specifically for platinum / palladium printing! We’ll photograph studio subjects and urban environments alike, gaining experience in lighting, exposure control, and composition that anticipate the unique tonal qualities of platinum / palladium printing.
This is a hands-on platinum / palladium printmaking workshop that begins with the capture of the image, and proceeds through the preparing of digital negatives, coating, exposing, and developing, as well as creating your platinum / palladium prints!
This workshop emphasizes both technical workflow and artistic decision-making — from the digital file to the tactile craft of traditional printmaking.
Friday, October 23
9 a.m. — 1 p.m.
Photo walk with Matt Beaty of Hidden Light and Dan Tamarkin
Bring your camera and comfortable shoes! We’ll stroll the streets and capture images to print later in the weekend. We’ll have lunch at a casual local favorite.
1:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Studio Time at Tamarkin Camera
We’ll photograph models and dancers for both portraits and movements as we study and learn lighting dynamics and exposure management for high-contrast and detail-rich negatives, which are perfect for platinum / palladium printmaking.
Saturday, October 24
9 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Preparing your Digital Negative
We’ll learn about post-processing our images in preparation for platinum / palladium printmaking. Bring your computer and your images and get ready to print!
Lunch is catered today. Please let us know about allergies and/or preferences.
12 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The Platinum / Palladium Printmaking Process
Matt Beaty shows us the process, teaching as he goes, and answering our questions. Get ready to make your prints! Everything we’ll need to create our platinum / palladium prints is ready for us. Matt will be at your side to help out and give you the expert tips-and-tricks.
Sunday, October 25
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Let’s make more prints and more pictures!
Today is all about you.
Want to make more prints? Let’s GO!
More images? Let’s do it — our models will be here and we can get more experience collaborating to make compelling images..
Want to practice digital negative preparations for platinum / palladium printing? Matt will be here to support you.
$3,250 per person. Visit Hidden Light now to book your spot today!
ABOUT HIDDEN LIGHT WORKSHOPS
“We feel it is important to continue making the finest black and white photographic prints, each print by hand in a traditional wet darkroom. Just as the fine craftsmanship is valued in a fine piece of furniture, hand blown glass, or a priceless oil painting, we feel it should also be valued in the creation of a handcrafted black and white photographic print.
“At Hidden Light LLC we work with many processes including: the traditional black and white Silver Gelatin print and Platinum/Palladium. We take very seriously the task of making the finest print that can be made, and are always trying to improve what we can do.”
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Join the Leica Akademie at Tamarkin Camera for a weekend with fine art photographer and director Mark de Paola!
The workshop with focus on capturing portraiture stories. Dissecting together the anatomy of character and plot development, as well as exploring both the literal and abstract possibilities of crafting story with photographs, students will come away with at a minimum of two distinct narrative sequences of photographs.
Set against Chicago’s iconic urban facades, you will work on assignment to adapt each assigned character to your own authored story. This masterclass is catered to photographers both beginning their artistic journey as well as those more advanced in the medium. Mark will explore how implementing and understanding how sequencing a narrative applies to many photographic genres and is critical to creating a completed body of work.
De Paola is long known for his fashion and fine artwork that has been revered as portraiture first, always striving for the most authentic and truthful essence and expression from a collaboration. This understanding of providing a space of safety and freedom in a creative space is a critical topic of discussion that each student will also explore with Mark and each portraiture collaborator.
You are sure to come away with powerful and poignant photographs, reunite with your own unlocked sense of play and story, and immerse further into discovering your truest unique photographic style and connection in portraiture.
$1,799
You can learn more — and sign up — here.
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@wideopenart
@markdepaolastudio
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