Digital negatives for alternative processes
$595
Connecting the Past With the Present of Photography
Every alternative process needs a specifically adjusted negative. This workshop will provide you with the technical knowledge and control necessary to adjust your negatives to a broad range of alternative printing processes.
Bookings close on March 1, 2025
This is a one-day workshop, 10 am to 5 pm.
Digital negatives are the crucial link between digital photography and analogue printing processes, controlling the tonal values in your print. Understanding how to make the perfect negative for your chosen process will allow you to translate any digital file, whether it was taken on your phone, digital camera or downloaded from the internet, into a unique handmade analogue print.
Digital negatives are the crucial link between digital photography and analogue printing processes, controlling the tonal values in your print. Understanding how to make the perfect negative for your chosen process will allow you to translate any digital file, whether it was taken on your phone, digital camera or downloaded from the internet, into a unique handmade analogue print.
Every alternative process needs a specifically adjusted negative. This workshop will provide you with the technical knowledge and control necessary to adjust your negatives to a broad range of alternative printing processes.
Taking you step by step through the process in Photoshop, you will learn to make a customised negative for a cyanotype printing, a process that can be applied in the same way to any other alternative printing process.
All necessary materials are supplied.
A full refund will be given if the workshop is cancelled due to a lack of registrations, or an unforeseen circumstances caused by the Centre.
Street parking.
- a laptop and digital images you would like to print. Please make sure your images are a suitable size/ resolution for printing.
- an apron or similar or wear old clothes.
- sunscreen
- notebook
Queensland Centre for Photography,
6, Maud Street, Newstead, Q 4006
- Street parking
- Wheelchair access upon request
The Tutor:
Joachim Froese is an art photographer and educator who holds a PhD/Art from RMIT in Melbourne.
Joachim works across a range of platforms from digital capture to historical printing processes. His photographs are renowned for their technical brilliance and their conceptual depth. He has shown his work for almost 30 years in major solo, group and travelling exhibitions across Australia, Europe, Asia, and North America and his images have featured in many national and international art publications. A number of his works are held in public collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).
Joachim is a highly experienced educator who has held regular teaching appointments and guest lectures on photography at universities in Australia and Germany since 2001. He teaches from a practitioner’s point of view and enjoys sharing his unique knowledge across a broad spectrum of photographic processes.
