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Congrats on the doctorate!

Thank you for sharing the process. I am definitely going to be trying this! My partner is going to do Cyanotypes in art school as well, so I expect to be doing it soon-ish as well

Beautiful! A wonderful way to show elements of our galaxy. Thank you.

Is it possible to expose the image with a photo enlarger?

Hey I’m so excited to try and shoot on this tomorrow:) I was just wondering as I have seen else where that pin hole cameras need a very long exposure time but obviously your images look amazing at just 30 seconds! Why is this do you think and would you still recommend a short exposure time?

Amazing results!! Thanks for sharing

I love your channel, you are so generous with all the info ❤

Thanks Melanie, for your experiments I just found Azobenzene Sensitive Paper Development - mixing with PVA non silver process! Azobenzene made by soak steel wool overnight with vinegar

4:28 <3

Brilliant 😊

Thanks for the vid! If using non-seawater, should it be distilled? Does raising the temperature of the water to 35C help with the fixing process, or is it just to dissolve the salt properly? Thank you for your input :)

this was semi helpful - but some timings and measurements would have been helpful for each step

The negatives are very thin. You can test that soup for development time before using it.

I know that it spoils the fun - and makes it harder to justify vodka - but you can buy isopropyl alcohol from any hardware shop. MUCH more affordable You can also float the paper on top of the emulsion if you have enough volume

Are you using the old cyanotype formula or the new cyanotype formula?

Cool!!

Hi. Thank you for sharing your work. I have a few questions, can seawater or salt added seawater act as fixers? These days I'm looking for fixers that don't change color after Lumen print and I'd like to ask for some advice!

There is NO Volume to this video,disappointed

This is awesome!!!

Ah interesting. So you only develop the filmrolls, but then you do not use a darkroom to print them. You use the scanner and photoshop? So cool

So glad I found your channel! Lovely and unique content. :)

would you do the same process if working with fabric?

What do the soda crystals do? Is this a standard part or something done to add an additional effect? Thank you!

Thank you for sharing! This is really cool.

What salt did you use? Table salt has additives

the what *rewatches from middle* ohh

Does this work with colour film?

Great stuff audio seemed low so listening again

Thank you!

Great video, educational, and keeps the original photography going. Thank you so much.

Amazing! I'm so glad Sam posted a link to your video!!! Ive never seen this before! I really appreciate your note regarding safety! I don't have a very big budget at all, what would you recommend the very minimum GSM paper weight? 😂 I have been using 80gsm and about 30% of the time it falls apart before i get to the drying stage 🤦‍♂️ there's no way I can afford expensive cotton rag paper! I have made quite a bit of paper in the past but it's very time consuming!

New viewer love it

Very cool! I didn’t know you could tone cyanotypes and I conveniently have Rosemary in the garden and some cyanotype paper in the closet. Thank you

Just wondering if I could develop Ilford Delta 100 BW film with caffinol?

It’s great to have you back here Melanie. I will try this with some of our Australian native plants; plenty of them are rich in tannins

Fortunately I have my own Rosemary bush. Have you used lavender?

Didn't know I could use rosemary and others like that! Thanks for the video. Just FYI, the audio seems to only come from my left earphone.

Hi Melanie, thanks for the video :) I am trying a few experiments from different recipes and methods with serrated wrack in Dublin, so far I have only managed nearly black and nearly clear negs so Im searching for my middle ground! It seems the key differences in all the info I can find is that different people use very different times/temps/agitations with roughly similar recipes, and I suppose its just finally finding what way works for me if I persevere! I just have a question about agitation here, do you do an initial constant agitation/inversion cycle for 30 sec or 1 minute of do you pour and just let it sit till it hits the 2 minute mark? Also when you say invert every 2 minutes did you just invert once or for ten seconds each time? Thank you <3 Karen

You re-invented the wheel. In the sixties of last century the canals in Amsterdam were really, really filthy. A guy used it as B&W developer outright. It worked. Long development time, but it worked.

On Planet Thanet they develop film with wine! Definitely going to try this, and other plant-phenol based techniques!

i wanna do this, do you have more photos of your caffenol prints somewhere? perhaps flickr? on a totally different note, you're so cute!!!

Hi! The photographic paper you use is new or exposed, like the one used for chemigram? Apologies for my bad English.

I enjoyed your video very much. I started developing with Caffenol back in the early days of the process. I'm still learning. It's a really amazing and underrated developer. One of the big plus factors is it's always fresh and very versatile. It gives an effect unlike all the others. Maybe the thing I like best is one can develop Kodachrome with it (as B&W). I've discovered that not all major brand developers will.

Hi there. I really want to try this. You mention that the prints aren't archival...how long would they actually last? I want to make prints of seaweed. What type of photographic paper is best to use for this? I am a complete novice!!

Why not use alcohol with the spinach? Like they do with turmeric

super cool thank you! I just started getting into this and tried my first chemigram, sadly with no result at all.. I am wondering what I did wrong. I used Ilford rapid fixer, and ilfosol 3 as developer but literally nothing happened. now I wonder if it might be the photographic paper, I used Ilford semi gloss, hope you can help :)

You can fix the image whit borax or if you want something more household you can use sodium bicarbonate but in any case the image will turn brown, i have made anthotypes with curcuma (tumernic)

can you explain more how to recover silver from the developer?

Is there any other way of making a cyanotype emulsion without the expense of chemicals such as using home kitchen ingredients? Currently doing a project on alternative processes using easy sustainable materials. Your videos and content are really useful and great!

This is so interesting!! Can I ask - how much sea water did you add to the saline solution? and what kind of photographic paper did you use?