Cyanotype Printing: A 19th Century Process for Today's Photographer

[@BandH]

Most welcome and thank you for watching.

[@bambooinchina]

Really enjoyed your presentation, thank you. I have specialized in this process for many years now & have found this to be very informative thought provoking & helpful.

[@nevarezfabiola6]

I love the portraits and architectural work too. This makes me miss all those days spent in the library doing research and looking through art books all day!

[@TimLowe]

Your prints are spectacular. I just started trying to perfect this technique and have had some problems. I picked up a few tips that I am sure will help my prints. Tips I have not seen anywhere else. I just coated some new paper and under the safe light, they look really good. THANKS!

[@MehriJamshidi]

Can i make a digital print in any kind of transparent paper? or should it be in special paper? i mean the negative i make?

[@MehriJamshidi]

If the ferric ammonium citrate; is brown, what will happen? the brown one is my only option onfortunstly.

[@kimberlytruesdale7689]

Thank you!

[@ryanfoley4123]

Great video thank you

[@suzannfulbright5652]

He said you could download a curve used in making a digital negative for contact printing using the cyanotype process. You would not make a digital cyanotype because the end product would be an inkjet print, not a real cyanotype.

[@Serenitees]

I heard you say that you should add potassium ferricyanide to the first water bath to increase contrast. Can you please restate how to create the potassium ferricyanide solution to add to the bath? You said to add 10ml to the bath which implies it is a liquid solution - what is the formula for the premixed 10ml potassium ferricyanide mixture that I am adding to the bath? Thanks!

[@tonytfuntek3262]

No reason to add Potassium Ferricyanide into the first bath. I just use water for the first bath, wash it for about 5 minutes...then the second bath with a few drops of hydrogen peroxide, then a few minute to rinse that off.

[@timar03]

did i miss it or was "• Creating a digital cyanotype in Photoshop" not in the video?

[@TrishMeyer99]

I think his point was that you should "preview" your image first in Photoshop in a prussian blue color and see if you like the tint, before going through the process. I do this and it's helpful as not all images work in cyanotype blue.

[@improvestepbystep]

why should it be?

[@suzannfulbright5652]

Plastic glass can overheat, buckle up and shatter in the sun.