My ecosystem for making Platinotypes using the Malde-Ware printing out method, journeys through three quite different worlds, that I lovingly and collectively refer to as "Planet 49" :
Capture
Digital Image and Negative Development
Printmaking
Capture
Capture happens in the field using a medium-format digital camera that produces high-resolution digital files. The extra data contained in these high-resolution files provides rich source material for the eventual print.
The pursuit of magical realism invites situating the image within its context; therefore, wide-angle lenses are often, but not always, used.
Image Development
The camera's digital files are developed in colour, converted to black-and-white, and then prepared for printing as negatives using a Photoshop-centric suite of image-processing tools.
Negative Printing
Full-size negatives are printed on transparent media using modified inkjet printers loaded with a proprietary, all-monotone carbon-ink set and custom Platinotype ICC profiles.
Printing - Dry Side
Printing happens in a "dim room" mostly under white light.
Here we see the dry side of the dim room, where working with unexposed sensitizer requires low light with no blue light from the low end of the UV spectrum.
The sensitizing and exposure or "dry" side of the dim room is shown here in Rubylith-filtered light. As many layout and chemical measurement tools are involved in sensitizing paper, aligning full-size negatives, and making a UV exposure, thankfully, there is never a need to work in complete darkness.
Printing - Wet Side