Learn to control light
The starting point for everyone. We understand how a camera works and why photos come out the way they do. We …
Training
Workshops
Six learning lines. Like a metro map: take one workshop or follow a full line from start to finish.
At Llumàtics we organise training like a metro: six lines, each with its own route. You can jump on at any station — take a single workshop with no prior knowledge needed — or travel a full line from beginning to end to build real mastery of a process.
All workshops at Llumàtics are private, with a maximum of four students per session.
We also collaborate with Cameras & Films (formerly the Lomography Embassy Barcelona), where we run large format portrait workshops, black and white darkroom courses and experimental developing workshops.
Learning path
The ideal journey
Follow the common trunk and choose where to go deeper. Each line is a learning area.
Llumàtics Station
Nau Bostik · La Sagrera · Barcelona
Analogue introduction
Camera, light and exposure. The foundation of everything.
First develop
Develop your first roll. Watch your image emerge.
Intro to the enlarger
Your first paper print. The darkroom awaits.
Advanced paper printing
Dodging, burning and contrast filtration.
Develop and print in one day
Full intensive: from roll to print.
Toning and effects
Coming soon
Scanning negatives
From negative to digital file.
Editing photochemical images
Lightroom for scanned analogue images.
Fine art printing
Coming soon
Thematic lines — choose your specialisation
Caffenol
Develop with coffee and vitamin C.
Wineol
Red wine as developer. Experimental.
Guinneol
Guinness stout. Unstable and fascinating.
Build your own developer
Chemistry from scratch.
Cyanotype on glass
Coming soon
Cyanotype on fabric
Coming soon
Pinhole photography
Build your own camera from scratch.
Anthotype and plant processes
Photobook
From your body of work to a real book.
Painting with light
Coming soon
Redscale DIY
Coming soon
Studio lighting
Composition and vision
Coming soon
Model direction
Coming soon
Documentary photography
Coming soon
Hasselblad 500
Medium format 6×6. Square vision.
Choose your path
No workshop fits exactly what you need? Let's design your custom learning path together.
Fonaments
Iniciació i comprensió de la càmera, la llum i l'exposició.
Scanning and digitisation
You have developed negatives and want to scan them properly. Not to share on Instagram, but to have quality …
From negative to image — digital editing for analogue photography
Lightroom, Photoshop and subscription-free alternatives to get the most from your scanned negatives: remove …
Pinhole photography
We build a pinhole camera, expose onto photographic paper and develop on the spot. The photographic process in …
Cyanotype photograms
A first experience with cyanotype: we place objects on sensitised paper, expose to sunlight and develop with …
Procés analògic
Revelat de pel·lícula i còpia en paper. El nucli de Llumàtics.
Darkroom prints with your own developer — Beers Developer
We mix Beers Developer from scratch, take it straight to the enlarger and compare prints at different contrast …
Developing colour film as black and white
You grab a colour roll, develop it with Rodinal in 60-minute stand development and get negatives with a brown …
Guinneol: develop with Guinness
You grab a can of Guinness, add washing soda and vitamin C, and use it to develop a roll of film. It works. …
B&W film development
There's no single correct development. There's the one each photograph needs. In this workshop you learn to …
Darkroom printing
Got developed negatives and want to make prints? This workshop is the natural second step of the analogue …
Development + printing in one day
A full day in the darkroom: in the morning you develop your own roll, in the afternoon you make paper prints. …
DIY developers
A workshop for anyone who wants to understand the chemistry of development well enough to make their own …
Experimental development
Beyond the standard developer: push and pull, stand development, Caffenol, the Beers formula and other ways to …
Introduction to darkroom printing
Got developed negatives and want to see how they become paper prints? This is the first session: a practical, …
Scanning and digitisation
You have developed negatives and want to scan them properly. Not to share on Instagram, but to have quality …
Caffenol: develop with coffee
Three ingredients from the pharmacy and supermarket, dissolved in distilled water. The result is clean, …
Wineol: develop with red wine
Take a bottle of cheap red wine, add washing soda, vitamin C and salt, and use it to develop a roll of film. …
Pràctica fotogràfica
Presa d'imatges en context real: retrat, carrer, escena.
Portrait with Holga
The Holga is not a precision camera. It's a camera that forces you to focus on what matters: the person in …
Analogue portrait
We work on studio portraiture with an analogue camera and studio flash: the light, the relationship with the …
Portrait in medium format 6×6
Photographing people in medium format is a decision. The waist-level finder, the square format and the …
Street photography
A workshop for photographing on the street with awareness: how to look, how to approach, how to decide when to …
The wonderful world of Hasselblad
A session devoted entirely to the Hasselblad 500 series: how it works, tips and tricks, double exposures, …
From Street to Book
A year-long analogue street photography course in Barcelona. Each month, a great photographer as guide. At the …
Photography tutorial
An individual session designed around you: bring your questions, your project or your difficulties, and we …
Photobook: from concept to object
Three sessions to turn your photographs into a photobook: concept, digital design and production. Output as …
Mig format
Fotografia 6×6 i 120. Un pas més enrere per mirar diferent.
Portrait with Holga
The Holga is not a precision camera. It's a camera that forces you to focus on what matters: the person in …
Portrait in medium format 6×6
Photographing people in medium format is a decision. The waist-level finder, the square format and the …
The wonderful world of Hasselblad
A session devoted entirely to the Hasselblad 500 series: how it works, tips and tricks, double exposures, …
Gran format
Fotografia lenta i conscient amb equipaments de gran format.
Introduction to large format
A first encounter with the view camera: understanding why it exists, how it works and what makes a system that …
Large format 4×5"
The large-format camera forces you to photograph differently: prepare, measure, decide and shoot just once. A …
Processos alternatius
Experimentació: cianotípia, reveladors artesanals, suports no convencionals.
Developing colour film as black and white
You grab a colour roll, develop it with Rodinal in 60-minute stand development and get negatives with a brown …
Guinneol: develop with Guinness
You grab a can of Guinness, add washing soda and vitamin C, and use it to develop a roll of film. It works. …
Cyanotype
One of the oldest and most accessible photographic techniques: we coat the paper, expose it to sunlight and …
DIY developers
A workshop for anyone who wants to understand the chemistry of development well enough to make their own …
Experimental development
Beyond the standard developer: push and pull, stand development, Caffenol, the Beers formula and other ways to …
Pinhole photography
We build a pinhole camera, expose onto photographic paper and develop on the spot. The photographic process in …
Cyanotype photograms
A first experience with cyanotype: we place objects on sensitised paper, expose to sunlight and develop with …
Caffenol: develop with coffee
Three ingredients from the pharmacy and supermarket, dissolved in distilled water. The result is clean, …
Wineol: develop with red wine
Take a bottle of cheap red wine, add washing soda, vitamin C and salt, and use it to develop a roll of film. …
Col·laboracions
Tallers externs
Tallers impartits en col·laboració amb altres espais. Mateix enfocament, entorn diferent.
Introduction to film development
The complete photographic process in three hours: we load a roll, head out to the neighbourhood to shoot it, …
Large-format portrait
Photographing a person with a late-19th-century camera, working directly onto photosensitive paper. A unique …