Upcoming Workshops

Picture this: Early spring in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a place of tranquility and timeless beauty, a paradise for landscape photographers. The park’s intimate landscapes and historic structures offer endless photo opportunities. With fewer visitors during this season, we’ll photograph the hidden gems in the quiet of this remarkable destination.

Our journey begins by the side of the Little River, where you can enjoy the cascade of water over rocks and gentle falls. Further along, we’ll reach Cades Cove, where historic churches and cabins offer a glimpse into the past. Once a mountainside laid bare by logging, this park has witnessed one of nature’s remarkable reclamation projects and is now revered as one of America’s most stunning sanctuaries.

Join me for a week of creative discovery in Acadia National Park, an ever-changing campus for photographers! The first national park created entirely through generous land donations from private citizens, it now spans over 47,000 acres. It’s early spring, and you won’t want to miss this opportunity to be in this amazing landscape before the summer peak season. 

The weather can vary dramatically – fog, sun, and rain can occur, often and throughout the same day. With fewer people, you will have access to revisit locations in the shifting light, adding to the richness of your images. 

What goes on between your ears is more important than what is in your hands. And you (almost) always have your iPhone with you. Guided by photographer Tillman Crane, this class will help you combine the two.

Discover the timeless beauty of Platinum/Palladium printing, turning your photographs into printed masterpieces in this hands-on workshop led by Tillman Crane.

If this is your first time making a platinum print, this workshop will give you the knowledge and experience you need to make them in your darkroom. More experienced platinum printers can use this workshop to build on their skill set and solve printing problems. This workshop is not suitable for someone looking to make final prints for an exhibition. This service is available in my Platinum Atelier.

Welcome to the unique opportunity to tell the story of life’s challenges on the prairie through the photographic possibilities presented by isolated, abandoned farmhouses and the charming small towns of north-central North Dakota. This workshop will increase your skills, challenge old habits, and help you eliminate a creative rut. Your focus during the week is not so much on making the perfect photograph but on approaching subjects differently, shifting your perspective, and taking creative risks. This combination of working in a new environment and altering how you approach your subject will change your photographs long after you leave the workshop.

This advanced workshop is designed for experienced platinum/palladium printers who want to refine their technique, expand their understanding of the process, and achieve greater control and consistency in their prints. Through focused demonstrations, in-depth discussions, and extensive hands-on printing, participants will deepen their mastery of the Traditional Platinum/Palladium Process while exploring variations, including Palladium-only printing and the NA2 Process.

Overview

Platinum Portfolio Week is a concentrated week in the darkroom devoted to one thing: printing a cohesive body of exhibition-quality platinum/palladium prints.

My introductory workshop, Platinum Printing in the 21st Century, teaches the process and is not the place to make final prints for an exhibition. This is the week that fills that gap. You arrive with a defined project and edited files ready to be made into negatives, and you leave with a sequence of final prints made to exhibition standard—matched in tone, contrast, and paper, and sequenced and editioned as a portfolio rather than a scatter of one-off tests.

We work in the traditional platinum/palladium process, with palladium-only and the Na2 process on hand as the image asks for them. Most of your hours are spent making negatives, coating, and printing; the rest go to the harder questions—sequencing, editing, and knowing when a print is finished.