Cyanotype Print Sun Exposure

Video Transcript

"So now that I got my cyanotype and my contact printer. I can make a cyanotype image. Now you see I'm doing this again with a cut down 4x5 negative on top of paper that's been sensitized. This is a very traditional way of making a cyanotype. Now, again, there's all these leaves in my back yard here, there's all kinds of little collages, chincolet do and I. I'm going to do that in a little bit too. But right now you can see how this image is turning blue. What it's doing is it's oxidizing from the sun and it's actually exposing as I speak. It's pretty interesting to see it turning from that blue to a gray-blue, to a brown-blue. Now in my experience of being outside with this type of clouds and sun, it usually takes about twenty minutes for a nice negative to expose. So that's what I'm going to try today out here, I'm going to give it twenty minutes. Now I've been printing for a long time and one way I get around, today's a big printing day for me, you know I been working all week, I got one day to print. So what I did is I made a UV light source and we're going to go into that in the next couple episodes and how you can make your own. It looks like a big tanning bed that you can print these even at night. There's something about cyanotypes that I really love, just being able to do them in the back yard and hang out, put on my picnic table twenty minutes, walk away, and come back, we'll see what we get."