Once I saw your previous video about ‘Hidden Light’, my first reaction was ‘I could watch this all day’. Now you do a follow up and show us all the process of printing a palladium print from a digital negative. ‘What a Wonderful World!’ ‘Hidden Light’ has found the perfect formula. They share a ‘Creative Studio’ where ‘ANYONE’ is welcome to learn and share the passion of ‘developing’ photographs with first class technicians. Along many definitions, The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that ‘Develop’ means ‘To expand by the process of growth, to promote the growth’. I think that’s exactly what going on there at ‘Hidden Light’. It goes beyond just making a print, it’s about personal growth. Love the way you covered the Lab and it’s family members. Love the soundtrack that walks us through. Thanks Ted!
Perfect. One of my favorite posters. My State, my favorite town, cool people doing great work. I'm kind of emotional about it. The soundtrack; I kept hearing, Hope for the train or Open the drain. My hearing isn't great.
This took me right back to when I started in print. The old overhead cameras, posi & neg plates, spotting and striping negs, exposing and washing out plates. Nostalgia overload, thank you so much for taking me back.
I like that they have a process for taking a digital image and using traditional dark room processes. For fine art gallery purposes it creates a more unique one of a kind process to the image. Very much considering getting a series printed through them after watching this.
I cant believe I never thought to make a negative out of an acetate print(transparent ) !!! im a digital photographer but I'd love to transfer a digital shot into the darkroom and print really large!!! this was an unimaginable thing to learn , thanks Ted Frobes, these videos are always teaching us
Rad! Recently learned to make a digital negative at a private workshop at Eastman Museum optimized for salt printing. Basically same thing. Profile took me a day to make, but once you have it works great. I've found the profile works pretty great for other printing methods too.
Great video. Always good to see the traditional techniques still being used in the digital age, I've a tonne of Instagram photos I now want to print using this process. Thanks Ted-
Hi Ted, thanks so much for this. I just completed my Introduction to the Darkroom subject and passed.Had so much fun (and exasperation). It has taken my Photography so much more forward. Developing prints is like meditation for me now; lots of gentle sloshing of chemistry against paper. So relaxing after a hard day! Steve from Australia
Nice! I'm a media and visual arts major with an emphasis in photography. I do digital, film, alternative processes. Cyanotype has been more of my jive and i've been experimenting with cyanotypes on transparencies. I'd print a digital positive (or negative) and do cyanotype over that transparency with another negative or positive
Thank you for this. I miss wet photography. I used to get my colour printed at Metro in Clerkenwell here in a London and when they were in their pomp they did amazing work. There were a few great printers there, it was run by Saeed Kanuga who was terrific. I used my Durst 6/9 enlarger with cold cathode light and cut filters to print monochrome with vintage lenses from Durst, Taylor Hobson and others. Good mono is magical. I wonder if I can get digital negs like you had that’d be a great synthesis of digital and wet process work. I like the artisanal approach.
Is there a color process where you could print C,Y,M and black negatives. than paint on color and black emulsion on the paper and expose each color in layers to get a color print?
After 40 years in photography am finally getting into platinum-palladium. To that end am working on putting together a larger 2nd darkroom space (was painting cupboards and a wall today). Pretty damn cool when you can take old tech like Platinum prints and new tech digi negs to reprint a lifetime in photography. You got to love that! "Ain't Photography Grand!!" Love it to death!
Ted, I've been meaning to do platinum printing at home, either with sun light or a small uv box. Can you do an episode on what it takes to have a minimal set-up?
I wonder, how these papers would do with adding selective watercolour highlights after printing? I have several images that I would love to have produced this way, but would like to go back in after the fact and add a colour wash to certain areas.
Great show Ted! I was glued the entire time. (Dang Sony Autofocus! ha) The whole process is just amazing and that photo of the tree & pond were breath-taking!
Jake Alexander Bryant He went past the minimum focus distance of the lens. The focus picked up the subject right away once he started moving away from the camera.
There is nothing like making darkroom prints. I wish I still had the time for it - or as Chase Jarvis would say, "I wish it was a priority for me right now". Awesome video.
So cool, I can imagine the smells in there, Just watching this reminds me of my time at The University of Derby where i studied. Nice to see people keeping the spirit of photography alive this way. Digital can't touch this
Brilliant video Ted, thanks again! One small point - I live in skin cancer central here in Australia (think mountains, thin air, lots of UV). When you were talking about exposing the Palladium sensitised paper under the modified UV light source, I immediately thought about the amount of skin and eye exposure that should be avoided. I've personally had early onset cataracts done in both eyes - thanks to working outdoors in bright sunlight for many years they came on very fast, while I am relatively young in terms of cataracts (in my late 50's). The video had me worried on that basis - UV is dangerous stuff, it also promotes the deadliest forms of cancer and you don't know it until it is too late... Worth thinking about.
Bob DotS you’re absolutely right. We have the room with the UV head blocked off from everything. We never look directly at the Light, and when I’m in there for long exposures doing dodging and burning, I’m wearing full coverage clothing and eye protection. We also have the room separately ventilated to pull out the gasses produced by the bulb.
I thought the same thing! I make palladium platinum prints in a studio with an 8000 watt (!) UV light-but we always put the curtain up before turning it on. What they were doing was really not advised, and I was even more shocked to hear that he dodges and burns under it (also totally unnecessary when you can print a digital negative because you can do so digitally).
What a fun video. I just wonder, wouldn´t it be quicker to put the silverprint in a drymount press instead of using such a tiny hairblower on such a big print? Otherwise absolutely awesome!!!
Ted this is awesome, digital really has made us forget 50%+ of ‘the art of photography’ was getting the print spot on. Thank you for the reminder, makes me want to get my cheap enlarger and film gear out again.
Just watched this video through for the fifth time. I wish there was some way to try this out. I'd love top give this kind of printing a shot just to see what it's like, without the huge space and money requirements up front haha! Yes, I want my cake and to eat it too! lol!
Ted, how did you do having a drink at that altitude?!?! Love this series. Really hits to my roots. It's amazing how simple a process it is but only to the masters. Great stuff
Alchemy was a dark science. Perhaps even in the Spanish Inquisition they torched some of these gentlemen experimenting with chemicals. But these friends of yours have picked up the beaker and chemicals and carried forth with this art, and they are also cool!
very exiting and inspiring! but this must be soooooo expensive.. Can you give me an estimate for a dozen tries (with help) and the size like with that tree photo ?
Once I saw your previous video about ‘Hidden Light’, my first reaction was ‘I could watch this all day’. Now you do a follow up and show us all the process of printing a palladium print from a digital negative. ‘What a Wonderful World!’
‘Hidden Light’ has found the perfect formula. They share a ‘Creative Studio’ where ‘ANYONE’ is welcome to learn and share the passion of ‘developing’ photographs with first class technicians.
Along many definitions, The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that ‘Develop’ means ‘To expand by the process of growth, to promote the growth’.
I think that’s exactly what going on there at ‘Hidden Light’. It goes beyond just making a print, it’s about personal growth.
Love the way you covered the Lab and it’s family members. Love the soundtrack that walks us through.
Thanks Ted!
Perfect. One of my favorite posters. My State, my favorite town, cool people doing great work. I'm kind of emotional about it. The soundtrack; I kept hearing, Hope for the train or Open the drain. My hearing isn't great.
This took me right back to when I started in print. The old overhead cameras, posi & neg plates, spotting and striping negs, exposing and washing out plates.
Nostalgia overload, thank you so much for taking me back.
I like that they have a process for taking a digital image and using traditional dark room processes. For fine art gallery purposes it creates a more unique one of a kind process to the image. Very much considering getting a series printed through them after watching this.
We'd love to make some prints for you!
@@MattatHiddenLight
This is a MAGNETIC video Ted, awesome
It's such amazing watching all this super stuff
Thaks for bringing us this amazing content, super appreciate
I cant believe I never thought to make a negative out of an acetate print(transparent ) !!! im a digital photographer but I'd love to transfer a digital shot into the darkroom and print really large!!! this was an unimaginable thing to learn , thanks Ted Frobes, these videos are always teaching us
Rad! Recently learned to make a digital negative at a private workshop at Eastman Museum optimized for salt printing. Basically same thing. Profile took me a day to make, but once you have it works great. I've found the profile works pretty great for other printing methods too.
You said the most nerdy video. I would say so interesting and informative. Thanks Ted and the team.
These past few videos have been so interesting. Great work Ted!
This brings back memory's of printing in a darkroom. 10 thumbs up 👍🏼 I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Great video. Always good to see the traditional techniques still being used in the digital age, I've a tonne of Instagram photos I now want to print using this process. Thanks Ted-
So cool!!! You keep me inspired with these awesome videos!!
Had not said hello in a bit
You have had a huge impact on me and wish / hope all the best for you today!
Hi Ted, thanks so much for this. I just completed my Introduction to the Darkroom subject and passed.Had so much fun (and exasperation). It has taken my Photography so much more forward. Developing prints is like meditation for me now; lots of gentle sloshing of chemistry against paper. So relaxing after a hard day! Steve from Australia
This video has all of the pixels. Great insight, Ted, and thank you to the folks at Hidden Light.
Nice! I'm a media and visual arts major with an emphasis in photography. I do digital, film, alternative processes. Cyanotype has been more of my jive and i've been experimenting with cyanotypes on transparencies. I'd print a digital positive (or negative) and do cyanotype over that transparency with another negative or positive
Thank you for this. I miss wet photography. I used to get my colour printed at Metro in Clerkenwell here in a London and when they were in their pomp they did amazing work. There were a few great printers there, it was run by Saeed Kanuga who was terrific. I used my Durst 6/9 enlarger with cold cathode light and cut filters to print monochrome with vintage lenses from Durst, Taylor Hobson and others. Good mono is magical. I wonder if I can get digital negs like you had that’d be a great synthesis of digital and wet process work. I like the artisanal approach.
This was magical... In your opinion, how much are these results better than just printing a picture.(since they had to print the negative)?
Yes is amazing!!!! See the xpan photo coming out wow is really emotionally strong!!! Love it!!!
Amazing!! Loved this video. Love learning about the art of print making. Thank you!
This is one of the most gratest episode that I've ever seeing. Thanks Ted!
What a beautiful way to bring old and new together :) I really wish there was a lab like that near me!
That was so cool! I really would love to do a platinum palladium print.
Is there a color process where you could print C,Y,M and black negatives. than paint on color and black emulsion on the paper and expose each color in layers to get a color print?
I'm not aware of any process that will let you selectively hand-coat for color printing... at least, not for photography.
Have you heard of the Carbon Transfer Process? Is this process still done by anyone?
Hi! Gum bichromate is the process you are looking for!
Thanks for sharing, Ted. The artisans at Hidden Light do amazing work. (and Nick at the Annex is a fantastic mixologist.)
That lab is an absolute dream!
Awesome content on this video. Watched the whole video. Loved it! Thanks Ted!
Excellent. Thanks Ted. Happy Holidays
After 40 years in photography am finally getting into platinum-palladium. To that end am working on putting together a larger 2nd darkroom space (was painting cupboards and a wall today). Pretty damn cool when you can take old tech like Platinum prints and new tech digi negs to reprint a lifetime in photography. You got to love that! "Ain't Photography Grand!!" Love it to death!
Ted, I've been meaning to do platinum printing at home, either with sun light or a small uv box. Can you do an episode on what it takes to have a minimal set-up?
I wonder, how these papers would do with adding selective watercolour highlights after printing? I have several images that I would love to have produced this way, but would like to go back in after the fact and add a colour wash to certain areas.
Great show Ted! I was glued the entire time. (Dang Sony Autofocus! ha) The whole process is just amazing and that photo of the tree & pond were breath-taking!
Jake Alexander Bryant He went past the minimum focus distance of the lens. The focus picked up the subject right away once he started moving away from the camera.
There is nothing like making darkroom prints. I wish I still had the time for it - or as Chase Jarvis would say, "I wish it was a priority for me right now". Awesome video.
So cool, I can imagine the smells in there, Just watching this reminds me of my time at The University of Derby where i studied. Nice to see people keeping the spirit of photography alive this way. Digital can't touch this
18:08 how to I get photos from my smartphone to one of those tiny square things with white paper frames?
it's like a paper version of the ipod nano
Analogue Photoshop is pretty cool!
Great video as always Ted! What creates the random edges on the platinum prints? Is it just where the brushed on chemicals didn’t get an even coat?
Lou S. That’s where the chemistry is coated, but there is no density in the negative to block the UV exposure.
Magic Man! I am so going in this direction!
Amazing video. Thanks for bringing us along with you.
Thank you for all the amaZing content you create man!
Wow ... this is absolutely awesome !
Brilliant video Ted, thanks again!
One small point - I live in skin cancer central here in Australia (think mountains, thin air, lots of UV). When you were talking about exposing the Palladium sensitised paper under the modified UV light source, I immediately thought about the amount of skin and eye exposure that should be avoided.
I've personally had early onset cataracts done in both eyes - thanks to working outdoors in bright sunlight for many years they came on very fast, while I am relatively young in terms of cataracts (in my late 50's). The video had me worried on that basis - UV is dangerous stuff, it also promotes the deadliest forms of cancer and you don't know it until it is too late... Worth thinking about.
Bob DotS you’re absolutely right. We have the room with the UV head blocked off from everything. We never look directly at the Light, and when I’m in there for long exposures doing dodging and burning, I’m wearing full coverage clothing and eye protection. We also have the room separately ventilated to pull out the gasses produced by the bulb.
I thought the same thing! I make palladium platinum prints in a studio with an 8000 watt (!) UV light-but we always put the curtain up before turning it on. What they were doing was really not advised, and I was even more shocked to hear that he dodges and burns under it (also totally unnecessary when you can print a digital negative because you can do so digitally).
These videos are wonderful. Great content, thanks for sharing.
Amazing!!! I really miss working and experimenting in the dark room
Ted, I love how your accent comes out around those guys! Texas forever!
What a fun video. I just wonder, wouldn´t it be quicker to put the silverprint in a drymount press instead of using such a tiny hairblower on such a big print? Otherwise absolutely awesome!!!
Ted this is awesome, digital really has made us forget 50%+ of ‘the art of photography’ was getting the print spot on. Thank you for the reminder, makes me want to get my cheap enlarger and film gear out again.
Thanks Ted. Can you create more in-depth content on the platinum palladium process?
Including the digital part of the process that you show in this video.
A big shout out to Hidden Light! To some extent, I understand what it takes to preserve this art form.
They make that look so easy
This was so awesome to see Ted thanks for sharing!
Another amazing video Ted, more of these :) Cheers.
This is so cool Ted! Thank you for sharing!
super cool! thanks Ted!
sony cameras overheat? is that what that issue was? Anyway, great vid, love the whole process.
Awesome Ted!
Wow, excellent video and thank you for sharing!
Great video, love Flagstaff!
That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing that.
Just Amazing Ted. Thanks
Just watched this video through for the fifth time. I wish there was some way to try this out. I'd love top give this kind of printing a shot just to see what it's like, without the huge space and money requirements up front haha! Yes, I want my cake and to eat it too! lol!
OMG this lab is a dream!
too bad there is nothing like this here in brasil =(
id love to learn how to print like that
Caio d'Lima Open one my friend! 📸😊
Nice to watch the process.
That's really neat. Makes me miss being in the darkroom. I loved the process, and strangely enough, the smell of the chemicals.
loved this last time I watched it...... Loved it more this time!! Thanks Ted :-)
This was immersive experience. Thank you! It made me wanna dive into a dark room again :)
Came back :-) Love it man :-)
Very interesting and informative..thanks Ted
I'm really enjoying this set of vids Mr Forbes :-) Bring on some more :-)
Hope one day open one more store in New York
What an awesome adventure!
Oh the hours spent in college in the darkroom. Thanks for sharing the lost art of print making.
Ted, how did you do having a drink at that altitude?!?! Love this series. Really hits to my roots. It's amazing how simple a process it is but only to the masters. Great stuff
amazing!!!! you should consider anyway to go back using canon for your videos , sony's autofocus is pretty bad !!!
Another very cool video!
Great video!
Is it possible to use digital negatives for a silver gelatin print? Which enlarger could i take for this?
It sure is possible! Once you make the digital negative, you can use any enlarger to blast it with light.
LOVE THIS!!!
Beautiful, but how much does it end up costing for a large print like yours? You can see why it's expensive.
awesome to see someone else roll a print through the developer. I thought my method would be dismissed
Jordan Baker No way! Only way to do it for the giant prints!
It's so interesting, I like it so much
Love this !!!
you made my life sir by sharing this
very interesting.. love it.
Awesome video! I miss my days in the Darkroom
Love our latest videos! So interesting!!!
this is the coolest! 🖖🏽
This was dope!
agreed!
Super green!
That was fantastic Ted, thanks :)
What kind of print technique is this? Appreciate the answers :)
This is a platinum print.
Alchemy was a dark science. Perhaps even in the Spanish Inquisition they torched some of these gentlemen experimenting with chemicals. But these friends of yours have picked up the beaker and chemicals and carried forth with this art, and they are also cool!
I can see some of Peter's techniques and ideas rubbing off in this video.
i convince all my friends to buy cameras from here
next time you are in flagstaff lmk! id love to go out and shoot.
very exiting and inspiring! but this must be soooooo expensive.. Can you give me an estimate for a dozen tries (with help) and the size like with that tree photo ?
northwest? train route seems familiar
What was the H2O2 percentage?
Norm Stephens that’s one drop of H2O2 per 50 drops of fo/pd mix.
Thanks, but I was wondering if the original H2O2 in the eyedropper was 35% or 3%?
What is the purpose of the Hydrogen Peroxide, I haven't seen a recipe that has this. Maybe im looking in the wrong place.
BOOOOM!!! Super!!!
Interesting stuff mate.
Sorry,What do you call this process?
My better half just commented after seeing the printer guy and Ted: "Since when do Ted and Ben Horne do videos together?" :D :D