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Digital Platinum with Carl Weese by greg brophy

This past weekend I took my second class with Carl Weese at the Center for Alternative Photography. The first one I took was Platinum Printing where we learned how to take, develop and print traditional negative. I wrote about it before. I learned a lot in that class, but when I went back home to try it, I ran into all kinds of problems. Carl was kind enough to answer some of my questions through email, but sometimes it really helps to take a class, try the process and take it again to follow up. One of the problems with workshops is that their is usually not enough time to go into trouble shooting. Especially with a process like platinum, that has so many different variables as to what could go wrong. Then add the complexity of digital printing.

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