22x30 inch PiezoDN Platinum Print Master Workshop, June 2-6 2025
SYLLABUS WHAT TO BRING ACCOMMODATIONS, HOURS, & INFO Cancellation Policy
Registration Fee: $1000, Total Fee: $4,000
Workshop Overview
Experience large-format platinum printing in our professional studio with the 22x30 inch PiezoDN Platinum Print Master Workshop. Whether you're a beginner or advanced practitioner, this workshop provides a rare opportunity to master this exquisite medium at large-scale. Produce a portfolio of your work at a fraction of the cost of professional platinum printing. This five-day workshop, designed for all skill levels, allows you to create at least five 22x30 platinum prints. Our pre-calibrated darkroom ensures perfect results, and on the final day, we'll teach you PiezoDN darkroom calibration. You’ll be able to purchase chemistry, PiezoDN systems, and exposure units with a 20% workshop discount. We offer our exact workshop settings and chemistry for those looking to replicate the process without the technical, or you can use our demos and manual to calibrate your own darkroom. No prior experience with platinum printing is required. Come and create at least five stunning large-format platinum prints; a $7,000 value at Cone Editions Press current rates for 22x30 platinum printing.
A Few Things You Get to Learn . . .
The Malde-Ware ammonium printing out method of platinum/palladium print. PiezoDN calibrated to display digital negative making. Darkroom calibration for perfect prints. Professional production. The benefits of 60 second exposures with the verifiedUV exposure system. Chemisty. Brush and rod coating. Print flattening and spotting.
What to Expect . . .
This is workshop designed to get four attendees at least five 22x30 inch platinum prints. The workshop days are from 9am to 4pm. We will stick to a production schedule so that everyone meets success in the darkroom. There will be a ton of guidance and assistance even to the point of getting physical help if you want it with the coating and processing. Our goal is that each attendee produces at least five beautiful 22x30 inch platinum prints; a $7,000 value at Cone Editions Press current pricing. You can absorb as much or as little of the technical as you want. If you want to bring the process home with you we'll write individual "prescriptions" for what you need.
Workshop Syllabus
Monday: Necessary Knowledge
We gather to look at 22x30 platinum prints in three expressions of the Malde-Ware Ammonium Print Out method including neutral, warm-neutral, and deep warm. Then we head into the imaging room where attendees can plug their laptops into hardware calibrator displays. We’ll next look at the digital images that were used to make the negatives that produced the prints we just looked at. You’ll be able to preview these images and compare to the prints to gain an understanding of the relationship of accurate ICC Soft Proofing to platinum printing.
We’ll then discuss and demonstrate imaging strategies for platinum printing including sharpness, acuity, “emotive feeling”, historical tonal response, and modern tonal response.
Finally, we’ll help you with an “edit” of the images you brought to choose a group of five and using custom Piezography produced Soft Proof ICC profiles you will make your final edits with a preview of how your images will print in your chosen expression of Malde-Ware. We will produce our first large format digital negatives this day and prepare the darkroom and paper for the next day’s printing.
Tuesday: Necessary Practice
We coat paper beginning in the morning exposing our first group of prints, clearing and washing them, hanging them to dry when we get our first glimpse of the finished prints prior to lunch. At lunch we can discuss what has taken place and answer questions. Our plan is to use lunch each day as question/answers and discussion.After lunch we’ll take a closer look at the drying prints and then begin preparing new images/negatives and coating the second round of exposures to make the second set of prints of the day.
Wednesday: Dig in
More of the same with two more rounds of prints.Thursday: Dig deeper!
Continues with at least one more print and possibly two for a total of six.Friday: Technical and Wrap-up
We wrap up with the first half of the day demonstrating the PiezoDN digital negative process for calibrating a darkroom to produce prints that match a display. We'll be using the Piezography Professional Edition Toolkit and we'll be demonstrating much of its most advanced tools.After lunch we will have a print flattening and spotting session followed by individual presentations of the work produced. Your prints can be taken away with you or for an additional cost you can opt to have us pack and ship them to you.
What to Bring
A Laptop. The studio does provide calibrated displays which can be connected to your laptop! So, please bring a cable to connect to the female "DisplayPort" fitting on the monitor.
Digital Images: Bring a hard-drive of digital images (at least 10 to work on). Ideally bring images that you've printed before and know well and bring raw images that you want to work on from scratch. If you are new to Piezography it prints with much more acuity than you may be used to. So it reveals EVERYTHING including too much sharpening, thin masking lines, and everything that you can get away with a normal inkjet printer. We do not want you to be dissatisfied so raw files give you a chance to recover from any unforeseen imaging issues. Remember...we're going large!
Install the required software: We believe that Photoshop should be installed on your laptop for some of our demos. Lightroom is a good alternative as well but there are things that Photoshop can still do today that Lightroom can't. If you are normally a Photoshop person that is fine. If you're a Lightroom person bring a laptop with both installed even if just a trial.
Accommodations, Hours, and Info
LOCATION AND HOURS:
The studio is located at 17 Powder Spring Road, Topsham, Vermont 05076. It is registered with Google Maps and you can trust Google directions to our studio. The studio is open to students, and instruction is provided from 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Your instructor sets time for demonstrations, a mid-day snack, critiques and clean up. On Wednesday we try to have a paella party in the Summer when weather permits. In the Fall we try to do something similar. But, we do keep the studio open later on Wednesdays. Plan for staying a bit later on Wednesday to share, eat, or get a bit more printing done! Your traveling partners are welcome to the Wednesday night party and can arrive anytime after 5:00pm but we tend not to eat until 7:00-7:30 and plan to stay late into the evening as the sun sets later this far North in Vermont!
TRAVEL:
Our nearest airport (75 minutes) is Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Burlington, VT. Other airports are Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) (130 minutes) and Boston-Logan (180 minutes). There are car rentals as well as private taxis and shuttles between the airport in Burlington, VT and East Topsham.
LODGING:
The amount of lodging near us is very limited. You must make reservations early if you want to be within walking distance of our studio.
There is a small B&B Cape House with a friendly owner and excellent breakfast nestled in the pasture on the other side of our steep hillside and perhaps a 10 minute walk: Call Bernice Dow (802) 439-5448
Rest Haven is our preferred Inn as it is the closest Inn to our studio and most our attendees stay there which makes it a great gathering place and ride sharing location. They are located in West Topsham (an 18 minute drive) They can provide meals. They have five different guest rooms. Please contact Angela Piletz
[email protected] (585) 749-0015
Lake Morey Resort (25 minute drive)
Gibson House Bed & Breakfast (30 minute drive)
Millstone Inn, heart of the old Websterville granite quarries (25 minutes drive)
Firehouse Inn, an old firehouse converted into a restaurant and inn (25 minutes drive)
Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast (25 minutes drive)
The Lyme Inn (40 minute drive)
Dowd's Country Inn (40 minute drive)
Breakfast on the Connecticut Inn (40 minute drive)
Norwich Inn and Brewery (40 minutes drive)
Betsy's Bed and Breakfast (45 minutes drive)
The Inn at Montpelier (45 minutes drive)
Capital Plaza Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Hannover Inn (upscale and fine dining) (45 minutes drive)
Six South Hotel (45 minutes drive)
Stillwater State Park (camping) (20 minutes drive)
Cancellation Policy
Because these workshops are small and your cancelling adversely affects the program, Cone Editions has both a very generous and a very strict cancellation policy.
We collect a deposit payment if you sign up more than 30 days in advance of a workshop. All workshops must be fully paid 30 days in advance.
If you withdraw more than 30 days prior to the start date of your workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the deposit.
If you withdraw between 30 and 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop, all payments made will be refunded, minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the workshop tuition, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
If you withdraw less than 15 days prior to the start date of the workshop you will receive no refund, unless Cone Editions or you can supply a replacement, in which case you will receive a full refund minus a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the regular deposit amount associated with that workshop.
There are no exceptions to these policies and Cone Editions is not responsible for cancellations due to medical or other emergencies. Should Cone Editions have to cancel a workshop, all fees and deposits are refunded in full or may be transferred to another workshop within 12 months. Cone Editions is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline tickets in the event of a workshop cancellation. We strongly recommend that you purchase trip cancellation/travel insurance.