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General News

Holiday Production Schedule 2017

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We do our best to get all orders out before the holidays, but realistically be have to set a schedule. Please order early to avoid delays. We ask that you please call about all RUSH orders during the month of December. We are happy to take your calls and emails about scheduling.

To receive your order BEFORE Christmas
– Orders with Framing and Mounting: Must receive by Sunday 12/3
– Orders with Printing Only: Must receive by Sunday 12/10

To have your order SHIP before Christmas (Will arrive after Christmas unless RUSH)
– Orders with Framing and Mounting: Must receive by Sunday 12/10
– Print Only Orders: Must receive by Sunday 12/17

Note: Orders can arrive sooner if RUSHED, please call about expedited shipping, printing and framing.

Lightroom 101 Workshop with Kathy Tarantola

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Lightroom Before and after photo

Lightroom is the essential software tool for any serious photographer. Come and learn the fundamentals of this incredibly powerful tool that many professionals have come to rely on.

Experienced instructor Kathy Tarantola will help guide you through the basics. This workshop will thoroughly cover the Library and Develop modules where you manage, keyword, edit and enhance your images. With hands-on practice, learn how to quickly and easily import, organize, edit, rate, and enhance your images, and how to work through large shoots efficiently with synchronized settings and presets. We will discuss how Photoshop will still fit in your workflow, and learn how to move between Lightroom and Photoshop easily.

We will take several images through the entire Develop workflow, reviewing tools as we go. Topics emphasized will be based on student needs. You will have time to practice with your own images, ask questions, and get feedback on your work.

Lightroom Library Module
• Import process
• Organizing
• Renaming
• Presets
• Metadata and Keywording
• Using ratings and filters
• Collections
• Searching
• Exporting
• Mastering good workflow practices

Lightroom Develop Module
• Evaluating photos and making creative decisions
• Perfecting tone and color in each photo
• Applying sharpening and noise reduction
• Correcting lens distortion & chromatic aberration
• Paintbrush/ Tools
• Using virtual copies
• Making great black and white conversions
• Presets
• Soft Proofing for printing

The class will also cover the basics of the Slideshow, Print and Web modules, all of which take your workflow to a professional conclusion.

No prior experience with Lightroom is necessary; however a working knowledge of computers is necessary for you to get the most from this workshop. A laptop computer loaded with the current version of Lightroom is required. You can download a trial version at Adobe.com.

You will gain a fresh outlook on how to manage your workflow and process your digital images faster and with more precise control, as well as learning to quickly increase your creativity and output stunning images.

Date: Saturday September 16, 2017
Time: 12-5 PM 
Location: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton St. Belmont, MA 
Fee for this course is $149*

Click the button below to enroll and pay for this workshop

LR Workshop

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For over two decades, Kathy Tarantola has been sought after as a commercial and editorial photographer working throughout Boston and New England. Kathy is an experienced instructor having conducted photography workshops across the US and abroad. She is an Adobe Certified Expert in Lightroom a respected member of the photo community and has served as Co-president and board member of the New England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP).

*Refund Policy: Because our instructors commit their time to workshops and space is limited, our refund policy is as follows: Cancellations 2 weeks prior to the workshop will receive a full refund. Cancellations a week before the workshop date will receive a 50% refund. All other cancellations will not receive a refund but may apply 50% of the workshop fee to a future workshop of the same or greater price. You must notify us of your cancellation or inability to attend via email. (info@digitalsilverimaging.com).

Gum Bichromate & Ziatype Workshops

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Two Gum Bichromate Images ©Anne Eder

Gum Bichromate Workshop

Gum bichromate is a 19th century photographic process using gum arabic, photo-sensitive dichromate, and watercolor pigments to create monochromatic, duotone, or full color images. The results are each unique and 100% archival. This workshop will take participants through the steps from generating large format color separation negatives to final printing. All the materials needed for this workshop will be provided.

Date: Saturday July 29, 2017
Time: 10:00-6:00 with a break for lunch
Place: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA
Fee: 249.00

GB Workshop

Student Discount: Currently enrolled students can receive a 10% discount. Use promo code: Student10 at checkout. You will be asked to present your valid student ID at the workshop, if you do not have a valid ID you will be charged the full $249.

Images produced at a previous Ziatype Workshop

Ziatype Workshop

Ziatypes have the look of platinum/palladium prints but are not as difficult or expensive to produce. This beautiful alternative processes maybe the perfect match for your photographic imagery. The Ziatype Workshop is for beginners and photographers with basic knowledge of the ziatype process. Expert instructor, Anne Eder, will take participants through the complete process of making ziatypes from digital image to finished ziatype print.

Anne will step participants through the entire process, starting with making a contact negative on an inkjet printer, coating of light sensitive paper, exposure with sunlight, and the final archival wash.

During the course of this day-long workshop participants will focus on:
• Perfecting negative conversion curves for better print results
• Creating a negative to express your vision
• Understanding ziatype chemistry
• Creating additional color and tone in your ziatype

If you are curious about the advantages of ziatype printing here is a brief list:
• Ziatypes utilize a printing out process (POP), images can be evaluated as they print, resulting in far fewer underexposed or overexposed prints.
• Greater contrast control without graining
• Greater paper acceptance, prints well on most papers.
• Greater color control. You can “dial in” various shades of brown to red brown, purple to neutral grays.
• No developer needed.
• Excellent blacks (dmax)

All materials needed will be provided, prints will be made on Hahnmühle Platinum Rag paper.  Participants need to bring 3 to 4 images on a flash drive, CD, or their laptop. Images should have good tonal scale in both the highlight and shadow areas. Two negatives will be made, one larger and one smaller, so a larger size file is better as it can always be reduced without image degradation. Files should be 300ppi, actual size. Participants will be able to keep, the prints , negatives, and custom curves made during the workshop.

Date: Saturday August 19, 2017
Time: 10:00-6:00 with a break for lunch
Place: Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton Street, Belmont, MA
Fee: 249.00
Zia Workshop
Student Discount: Currently enrolled students can receive a 10% discount. Use promo code: Student10 at checkout. You will be asked to present your valid student ID at the workshop, if you do not have a valid ID you will be charged the full $249.

Instructor Bio: Anne Eder, holds a masters degree in Photography and Integrated Media, and has studied with Christopher James, author of the Book of Alternative Processes. Her gum bichromate images and studio practice are featured in Gum Printing: A Step-By-Step Manual Highlighting Artists And Their Creative Practiceby Christina Z. Anderson, published by Focal Press/Routledge 2017. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in both public and private collections.

Optimum Permanence Achieved by DSI Digital Silver Prints®

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Optimum Permanence Certificate of Conformance - DSI Digital Silver Print©
February 2017, Certificate of Conformance

Optimum Permanence means that Digital Silver Imaging’s Digital Silver Fiber Prints® meet the highest archival print standards. Our custom built black and white print processor produces consistent high quality results every time. We don’t take terms like “Museum Quality” and “Archival” lightly. At Digital Silver Imaging we are constantly evaluating our processes and materials for quality and performance.

When you make a DSI Digital Silver Fiber Print® you can rest easy that “Optimum Permanence” is our standard every day.

What is a “Certificate of Performance ?” To obtain the certificate we submit print samples to the labs at Ilford Photo Harman Technology Ltd. in Great Britain. The lab tests our prints to see how they have been processed and how they will perform over time. Receiving an “Optimum Permanence” rating is simply as good as it gets.

B&H Photo Profiles our Switch to Canon Prograf Printers

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Canon Prograf 1000 Printer
Digital Silver Imaging’s Canon Prograf 1000 printer at work

B&H Photo & Video profiles our switch to Canon Prograf Printers from Epson printers. B&H’s Jill Waterman interviewed our own Eric Luden about the advantages of the Canon Prograf 1000 and Canon Prograf 4000 printers. Jill did a great job in providing B&H readers with real life reasons why the new Canon printers outperform their Epson counterparts.

If you want to know more about why Digital Silver Imaging switched to Canon Prograf printers or are thinking of switching yourself Jill Waterman’s interview is great source material.

Follow this link to the B&H article.

2016 Outstanding Year for DSI Customers

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©Iaritza Menjivar - First Generation
©Iaritza Menjivar

2016 was an outstanding year for Digital Silver Imaging’s customers. This is an incomplete list of some of the projects we printed. We want to thank ALL our clients for allowing us to bring their images to print. The most rewarding part of our job at Digital Silver Imaging is collaborating with such an interesting and talented community of photographers. Thank you for a fun and productive 2016.

Tess Atkinson – Art Colony Exhibition

Dawoud Bey – Early Photographs at the Stephen Daiter Gallery

Mathieu Bitton – Darker Than Blue Exhibition, Leica Gallery LA

Sheila Pree Bright –  Look3 and Candela Gallery in Richmond VA

Debi Cornwall – Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play, Gitmo on Sale, UARTS, STUMP, Candela Gallery

Sean Hemmerle – Paris Photo for Julian Sander Gallery

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Anthony Hernandez – Paris Photo for Thomas Zander Gallery

Thomas Hoepker – Camera Works Berlin

Kamoinge – Breaking Point Exhibition

Mark Mann – Lucha Libre Exhibition

Iaritza Menjivar – Iaritza is our own Social Media Marketing Assistant. Keep an eye on this talented photographer, she’s a rising star. – First Generation Exhibition, New York Times Lens Blog,

Maciek Nabrdalik – Exhibition Crossing Gallery Harvard

Mark and Eric Norbom – Time’s Hand Exhibition

Stacy Pearsal – Veterans Portrait Project

Mark Peterson – Political Theatre Exhibition

Linda Foard Roberts – A Place in Time, The Ogden Museum

Mark Robinson – New Moon Rises, Smithsonian Museum Exhibition

Ruddy Roye Image
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Ruddy Roye – Look3, When Living is a Protest Steven Kasher Gallery, Time’s Instagram Photographer of the Year 2016 

WPOW – Women Photojournalists of Washington exhibition at the National Geographic for FotoDC

Please let us know
As mentioned, this is an incomplete list. If we made a print that appeared in a show or was purchased by a museum or collection please send us an email, or let us know when you place your print order. We love to feature our customers on our Facebook and Instagram sites.