| Notebooks |
To record the experience learned by many hours and years of platinum palladium printing, it is an excellent idea to keep a notebook of all printing activities. Two notebooks may even work better. One can be used to record all the information learned about the process and any tests that are performed. The other can be used to record all the information for producing each individual photograph.The first contains information such as this guide.
The other contains all of the specific information for each negative or print such as:
| For Negatives: | For Prints: | |
| Date photographed | Negative Number | |
| Location and Subject | Date printed | |
| weather (optional) | Paper used | |
| Lens | Chemistry used for coating | |
| Any other unique equipment | Sensitizer | |
| Film type | Metals | |
| effective film speed (ASA) | Contrast Agents | |
| Meter readings and range | Type of Drying (Wet or Dry) | |
| Filter | Ambient Conditions | |
| Aperture | Temperature | |
| Shutter speed | Relative Humidity | |
| Development (planned) | Lamp distance or time of day | |
| Development time (actual) | Exposure time | |
| Developer concentration (actual) | Burning and Dodging information | |
| Any other unique processing info | Developer | |
| Clearing | ||
| Any other unique processing info |
A convenient way to organize negatives and prints is to catalog them as follows.For negatives: YYMMDD-XXEach negative and print will have a unique number. It is important to keep tract of the information for all prints, even those rejects that are destroyed. Information might be helpful in future endeavors.For Prints: YYMMDD-XX-PP
YY = year of negative exposure
MM = month of negative exposure
DD = day of negative exposure
XX = film holder number (assuming the same film holder is not
reused the same day)
PP = print number