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Van Dyke: Clean Up Process

Lesson 34 from: Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography

Daniel Gregory

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Lesson Info

34. Van Dyke: Clean Up Process

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

03:03
2

Overview of the Alternative Process

03:31
3

Overview of the Digital Negative Process

10:21
4

Working with Black and White Digital: What You Need

09:17
5

Working With Black and White Digital Images: Color Settings

08:33
6

Working with Black and White Digital Images Lightroom

07:01
7

Working With Black and White Digital Images Photoshop

11:57
8

Working With Black and White Digital Images 3rd Party Plug-ins

07:29
9

Avoiding Key Artifacts

20:26
10

Creating the Step Wedge for Curve Corrections

39:00
11

Organizing Your Adobe® Photoshop® Files and Curves

11:20
12

Setting Up the Printer

20:24
13

Lab Safety and Workspace Set-Up

03:49
14

Setting the Maximum Black Time

12:06
15

Getting the Initial Curve Test Numbers

20:04
16

Correcting the Curve

20:37
17

Printing the Curve

06:08
18

Sharing Curves

08:50
19

Caring for the Digital Negative

12:29
20

Intro to Cyanotypes and Safety

07:46
21

Paper and Brush Types

05:08
22

Coating Process and Cyanotype Chemistry

12:17
23

Making the Cyanotype Print

06:41
24

Washing the Cyanotype Print

12:29
25

Creating Cyanotypes Photograms

14:59
26

Toning Cyanotypes and Cleaning Up the Darkroom

18:43
27

Introduction to Van Dyke Printing

04:36
28

Setting Up the Van Dyke Workstation

05:20
29

Van Dyke Paper and Coating

05:10
30

Van Dyke Exposure and Developing

32:30
31

Van Dyke Troubleshooting and Resources

08:26
32

Van Dyke: Split Toning

18:56
33

Van Dyke: Wash Cycle and Drying

04:33
34

Van Dyke: Clean Up Process

03:51
35

Introduction to Platinum / Palladium Printing

14:15
36

Platinum/Palladium Coating Chemistry and Safety

09:58
37

Platinum/Palladium Paper and Coating Options

22:31
38

Platinum/Palladium Exposure and Development

22:31
39

Platinum/Palladium: Equipment and Supplies

16:48
40

Ink Jet Negative Coating and Exposure

15:25
41

Platinum/Palladium Chemistry Options

07:50
42

Ink Jet Negative Development

03:45
43

Platinum/Palladium Waxing Images

08:40
44

Platinum/Palladium Troubleshooting and Resources

27:19
45

Sharing Your Work Digitally

14:49
46

Archivability

10:39
47

Matting and Framing Options

30:22
48

Editions and Signing Options

13:54
49

Alternative Processes: Further Exploration

07:25

Lesson Info

Van Dyke: Clean Up Process

Last piece I wanted to talk about is in the clean up process the toner you're going to save cause you can replenish it and reuse it. So can just go into a dark colored jar. Your wash goes down the drain unless by local disposal rules you're not allowed to do that. But the fixer, so the fixer is is sodium phiosulfate mixer you're gonna come up with. This can be used over over again, until it exhausts. And there's a little test you can use. There's some little drops you can put in there. Depending on the size, it's, somebodies gonna ask, well how many prints can I run through It's gonna depend on the size of the print. Amount of chemistry you have. So it's hard to give you an exact number. How much you mixed up. But in general you'll get 20, 30 prints probably before it starts to degrade. But this can not go down the drain. This has the residual silver that's left in it. If you have a septic system, that silver will kill your process like that. If you're in the municipal system, it kills...

the system like that. And heavy metals really probably shouldn't be put back into our drinking water and waste water. So, this one we definitely want to dispose of properly. There's a couple of ways to do that. You just basically dump it into a, I put mine into old, get distilled water that I'm using, it just goes back into the distilled water jug when it's done. I write fixer on the outside. Cause I'm not like oh distilled water. Goes in there and then most municipalities have a hazardous waste place which will actually recycle that. A lot of, if you're in a major city, that has a photo school or a university that has a photo chemical department. They'll often times have what's called a silver reclamator, and you can just take it and you dump it into their reclamator and the machine pulls the silver out and then the school can sell the silver off and they can make money to help pay for different elements or different aspects of the program through the reclamation of the silver. Another option you can do, is if you drop steel wool into the bottom, this is my favorite from a chemistry standpoint, you drop steel wool into the bottom of your fixed container that's expired and then come back a few weeks later and the silver will have plated to the steel wool. So you end up with this silver steel wool plated and then at the point where all the silvers out of there you end up with basically an inert liquid. So that's another process and there's methods for that online. But the safest, most responsible way to do. Send it off to the hazmat center. They'll repurpose it, take care of it properly. Probably reclamate it. Or like I said, if you have a school, it's a great way for them to find some way to get some income, particular in the time when it's hard for schools to get funding. The photo school I work at, we reclamate a lot of silver. We make a few thousand dollars a year usually on silver reclamation coming off of the various prints and things like that. So I haul mine, I'm down to that. You can just look for a school and it's called a silver reclamator, is the thing you want to ask for. Alright, so any questions from anybody? I did have a question online from SFX who said, would you follow the same bath process on a wood substrate, if you, you were talking about processing onto other types of material. Following the process I would follow the exact same process. You gotta get to the same, you gotta wash off the residual salts. You gotta fix it so that it has some level of permanence. Now, how long it would be in the fixer, things like that would require some experimentation. But that'd be a great question. There are some alt processing forums up on, they just moved PhotoRio is a name of a website that is a lot of alt processors are up there. And then, like I said, that information is probably I guess Sandy, King, or Mike Where somebodies probably got some fixing information about using wood. But yeah, that would be a, definitely the same process would be used. The time I don't know how to answer that.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Alternative Processing Handout.pdf
Grayscale Percentage to RGB Values.pdf
MSDS Saftey Datasheets.zip
Bostick Discount Code.pdf
Matt Cutting Cheat Sheet.xlsx
Step Wedge Creation Spreadsheet.xlsx
Alternative Process Actions.zip
11stepwedge.psd
21stepwedge.psd
50stepwedge.psd

Ratings and Reviews

Diordna
 

For a long time, I have read, studied and tried alternative processing, mainly Platinum/Palladium printing. I want to create longest lasting prints and may be share the info at Creative Live. But this presentation saved me many a hours. A few minutes into the lecture, I purchased the class and as the class progressed, I was extremely glad. Thank you Creative Live, thank you Daniel Gregory.

SFX
 

Excellent class on Alt Process and fantastic bonus materials included with purchase!!! I have extensive digital printing and darkroom experience but haven't done much alt-process to date. This is perfect timing for me as I have several personal projects that I would like to re-visit using some of these techniques. Thank you Daniel!!!

James H Johnson
 

I have been making platinum/palladium prints for about 1 year. This is the 3rd workshop that I have attended. The first two were one on one. Daniel has done a fantastic job of covering the material and explained the process it detail and easy to understand. This course is fantastic and highly recommend it.

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