Video: Cyanotype Print Chemicals

Ammonium iron III and potassium ferricyanide are the two chemicals used in cyanotype. Learn how to prepare these chemicals for cyanotype prints in this free photography video about how to make cyanotype prints.

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These are two premixed cyanotype solution essentially kits that I bought, and again they are very inexpensive. You can get them on the internet. This company that I bought them for is a very popular company. They're great people to work with. There is a solution A and there is a solution B. Now again these are photographic chemicals. They're chemicals, they're actually chemistry. You do not want to keep this around children. You don't want to keep it around your dogs. You don't want to drink it. You don't want to get it on your clothes. You want to use it to a certain level of caution with this chemistry. Now the way it works is that I'm going to take an equal amount of each solution to make one. So it's an A and a B, and what I have here is my little measuring cup, my little cough syrup measuring cup which I find that works really, really well, and I am going to pour out a certain amount of each solution. Now I use drams it's an English measurement and I find that it works really well for this, and I'm going to use two drams per each bottle to give me four drams. You really do have to measure this. A couple of, you know, even like a tiny little bit more of one of the solutions is going to throw it off.

Cyanotype Print Chemicals

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