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... then platinum might not be your cup of tea.. But if you live in midtones and highlights.. then there's no other process that can come close.
Jim, I need to send you one of my waxed vellum prints once I return from Europe (though I'll see if I can get to the post office this week). The dmax rates up there with my silver gelatin prints according to a reflective densitometer and still has the midtones and highlights of pure palladium. My work, as you so eloquently say, lives more in the midtones and highlights, but I have some images which sink all the way into the deep shadows. Fun stuff, though I think its more from the vellum than the waxing--the waxing adds about as much dmax as a coat of Breathing Color varnish or similar (I believe you were testing these out...? Or I may be thinking of someone else).If you're into deep black high contrast silver images, then platinum might not be your cup of tea.. But if you live in midtones and highlights.. then there's no other process that can come close.
.. and no.. you cannot duplicate the look of a platinum print using inkjet...
jim
You're still dealing with a process where the ink resides on top of the substrate as opposed to the feeling of depth introduced by the emulsion soaking into the cotton rag as with palladium.Photogravure ??? As far as I know photogravure remains the only true continuous-tone printing process.
Hi Jeremy,I'll disagree, this guy's tutorial has a lot of hearsay and myth in it. For instance, he talks about the extreme cost of printing platinum, but if you read through he prints in palladium not platinum. The cost for 25mL of palladium is $70 if purchased from Bostick and Sullivan or you can buy 25g of palladium and mix up your own palladium chloride. 25g will run you about $250 right now and make 300mL of palladium. Additionally, he talks about Ron Reeder & Brad Hinkel's QTR method as a rabbit hole, but it is by far the best (I have found) method of creating digital negatives--it just requires effort and patience.
I wasn't impressed. Maybe Jim Collum will chime in, too, as I know he prints gorgeous pd/pt prints from digital negatives.
not like you would with silver or b/w digital. The best you can expect in Pt is about a dmax of about 1.5-1.6 (and it's hard to get that.. takes some consistency in printing ). With silver or digital, > 2 is easy to accomplish.Would I get deep blacks with the platinum method? My stuff is rather moody.
I think it does quite well with moody, this is palladium on vellum (caveat: judging the digital representation of a palladium print is like judging a ferrari in 2nd gear, you still haven't seen what this puppy can do :ROTFL: )Would I get deep blacks with the platinum method? My stuff is rather moody.