A step by step guide to producing a platinum / palladium print using the dichromate method. Preparing the paper I print most of my platinum prints on Arches Platine watercolour paper, which is specifically designed for platinum and other alternative processes. Tear or cut down to a size that leaves 2-3 inches around the print, [...]
Read More...Platinum printing is perhaps the most desirable of all the alternative (non-silver) photographic processes, the printed image rather than being made of silver as in a traditional darkroom print is made up from platinum and usually palladium metals. Before the first world war it was possible to purchase platinum coated paper just as we now [...]
Read More...An alternative (non-silver) photographic process is loosely defined as any traditional or historic analog (although I don’t like the term analog) printing process that does not use silver gelatin paper that is commonly used in traditional darkroom printing. There are many alternative processes such as platinum, cyanotype, vandyke, gum bichromate, kallitype, ziatype and salt printing [...]
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My name is Mark Voce and I’m a fine art photographer specialising in landscape, architecture and night photography.
I discovered historic and alternative processing methods last year and have been hooked ever since, I am always experimenting with the aim of perfecting my techniques.
This blog shares my findings in with these wonderful diverse printing methods.
