Cyanotype Print Developing Agents

Video Transcript

"So what essentially is my developing agents are just plain old water. Now some people like to use distilled water, which I actually like to use. Or if you have a filter on your water system in your house, which I do, so I can just take it right from the tap. But distilled water will actually work a lot better because there's just you know, there's certain hardeners in water sometimes and things that can actually affect your print in ways you might not realize at first. And then you know, so use distilled water. And the other developing agent is good old hydrogen peroxide. Again, incredibly cheap, I think this bottle cost me a whole ninety-nine cents. So there's nothing better in the world to a photographer when I can get incredibly cheap materials to develop what I'm doing. And so I have my water, and the way it works is that I'm going to put that print in water first. And then after the water bath, I'm going to wash it off and I'm going to put it in the hydrogen peroxide. Now one note, you don't need a lot of peroxide to make this print come out. Some photographers don't even use peroxide at all. Just you know, just the hydrogen in the air will actually make your print develop over time. But I like to speed things up, so I use hydrogen peroxide."