I am currently scheduling private, one-on-one or small group workshops (1-3 people) on Crafting Custom Digital Negatives for beginners and advanced students. These workshops are usually 2-3 full days (depending upon the persons needs) in my home in Elgin, Illinois—just 20 minutes from Chicago's O'Hare airport. Private workshops are becoming very popular, so please contact me in well in advance if you are considering scheduling one.

I teach the PDN system with Platinum/Palladium and use Na2 as the method of contrast control. My workflow for Palladium printing is almost foolproof and produces beautiful, flawless prints. The outcome is very predictable and repeatable.

I provide all the materials, chemistry, and paper. The participant need only bring negatives or RAW camera files to work with. I scan with an Imacon 848 scanner and have a variety of printers to output negatives.

For beginners, I cover the entire book and usually the participant goes home with 3-4 very nice prints and a very concrete understanding of how to implement the PDN system at home with their equipment.

For advanced students, I cover methods of manipulating the negative and chemistry to achieve superior prints that match your vision. This also includes shadow printing, high key printing, and print adjustment using a variety of hybrid curves.

I will also review portfolios and help the participant troubleshoot images that they have found difficult to print.

For advanced professional fine art photographers, I am also doing private workshops in their studio. The focus of these workshops & consultation is to assist them in the transition to digital negatives or to improve their capability with digital negatives in their own studio workflow.  There are real advantages to being able to reproduce fine art work consistently and quickly in order to meet the demand for museum quality prints.  You might call this a Turnkey approach to getting the most from digital negatives.  I have worked with such artists as Dick Arentz, Josephine Sacabo, Beth Moon, Brigitte Carnochan and others.

 Email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if you think you might benefit from one of these private workshops and we can discuss your needs over the phone.