Workshops andmaster classes - Centre pour la photographie du Château de l’Hom

Each photographic style deserves a specific kind of printing. The production of prints followed by their analysis facilitates the emerging – or confirmation – of a personal style with the purpose, among other things, to differentiate oneself as an author. It also allows one to sharpen up his editing and reinforce the coherence of a series, be it

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DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION THROUGH PRINTING

With traditional black&white photography, the zone system permits the control of exposure and development so as to obtain a print of the best possible quality. In an interview given to Playboy in May 1983, Anselm Adams, who invented the technique, said : “Then the time will come when you will be able to make the entire photograph

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Zone system for digital photography

The development of digital precision printing allows experimentation that could not have been dreamt of a few years ago. This is the reason why the Centre for photography offers a workshop on the production of large format digital negatives that allows traditional printing by contact. The participants will thus have the opportunity to merge digital

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Piezo Pro, Piezo DN and platinum palladium

For connoisseurs of traditional photography, the final print is paramount in the rendering of a picture by the enlargement of negatives varying from 35mm to 8x10’’. Numerous technical factors such as the kind of enlarger, the chemicals and the type of papers that are being used influence greatly on the final result. This two-day workshop will

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Traditional black&white printing

Ansel Adams’s zone system enables the photographer to determine the correct exposure as well as the adjustment of contrast on the final print. This method of exposure and film development planification leads to the control of the relation between the object and its photographic representation in terms of light and values. Today, the zone system

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Zone system

Knowing how to control the numerous industrial papers on the market to obtain the best possible results for exhibition prints is important. But it is also very interesting for a photographer to personalize his work thanks to various unconventional papers that allow him to obtain special effects. The purpose of the workshop is to learn or improve

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DIGITAL COLOUR PRINTING

The production of digital negatives Epson K3 printing process makes it possible to obtain big format negatives adapted to contact printing with any alternative method. Platine-palladium printing is a process of photographic printing by contact of a negative on a UV sensitive emulsion of a platinum and palladium mix. Often considered as the method

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Initiation pt-pd, Van Dyke and cyanotype

Everything you want to know about traditional black&white photography and darkroom magic : exposing, developing and printing. It is not necessary to be familiar with photography to gain benefit from the workshop. The attendee should leave having completed at least five 24x30 prints either from negatives produced during the workshop or

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Black&white film photography

Traditional large format photography has always been meant to give the best quality for architecture, landscape, still lifes and portrait. However, the use of a view camera needs a specific training such as this four-day workshop is offering. Proceedings : Basics : • focus • Scheimpflug’s law • tilt & swing • shift • perspective

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Large Format