![]() TP: Where were you getting your photographic references for this from? Who would be the photographers you would be looking at thinking platinum palladium? Was it just the historical photographers? Julia Margaret Cameron?ĭH: Yes, definitely. It very gracefully dips into an acceptable black as you get with platinum prints. There’s more control, definitely in the lower tones. Where life isn’t black or white as it is with a silver print. I was trying to get that, not that necessarily retro look but that tonal look. I struggled to get the look I wanted from inkjets compared to platinum images I’d seen, mainly from historical images in museumsĭH: Yes V&A is a good source of old techniques. Then making my own inkjets over the years as well as technologies improved. TP: I was asking earlier how you got into this, as you were already a film photographer and did a mix of black and white and colour. I moved to platinum about 4 years ago, I started doing alternate processes and dipped my feet into platinum before going full bore over the past 3 years really. TP: Since then you’ve started processing prints as platinum palladiumĭH: That’s right. TP: I came across your work as I scanned some of your 6x17’s a while a goĭH: Yes you did! Quite a while ago – 5 years I think! You’ve been photographing for a fairly long time?ĭH: Yes I have, different genres over time TP: David will be making some prints for me later but right now we’re spending the next half an hour so going through some of your own personal favorites and some of mine too. Also looked at the exhibition, The Weald, it’s final day!ĭH: If you want to go and see it, its too late now! ![]() TP: Nothing wrong with that, just great being out seeing the world. Tim Parkin: Hi, we’re here with David Higgs, just spent the day in Ashdown Forestĭavid Higgs: Doing a lot of walking, chatting and not many taking pictures! That’s fine The following is a transcription of the screencast recorded after spending a day out with David wandering the Weald and waiting for the coated paper to dry for one of his platinum palladium prints. Amateur Photographer who plays with big cameras and film when in between digital photographs.
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