- Hi YouTube.
Whoa, welcome to my channel today is Saturday,
which means I'm living in
don't know the results of the election realness.
(sighs)
Yeah, so crazy making a video,
having no idea what the future is
and like what world we're gonna be in at this time.
I have hope with that said, I'm thinking about life,
what I wanna do with it.
And so I thought we'd have a little time together
and we're gonna start maybe
a new little thing on the channel,
which is Bries Bucket List
or Bries Bucket List
or Bries Bucket List,
which is basically just me doing things on my bucket list.
And one of them is developing photos.
Something that I did when I was like in high school,
I developed black and white photos,
but this is using a new technique called Cynotype.
I think I said it, I hope.
I can't wait for someone to correct me in the comments.
Cynotype, it's a way, a easy way
of developing photos that are blue.
In order to do that, you're just gonna need some items.
You'll need a photo.
I'm gonna do like a self-timer selfie
or something on myself with my phone,
a computer or a some way to invert the photo.
I can tell you which program I use.
A printer, some developing trays
or you can use baking sheets.
I've definitely done that in the past.
Watercolor paper is what we will
be painting the solution on.
The transparency film is what
we'll be putting in the printer.
We print the inverted photo onto here.
It lays on top of here.
It then goes inside our frame
and then we stick it outside
and let it basically cook outside.
If you're wondering how confident
I'm feeling in this resulting in a cool photo,
I'd say it was about 50, 50 at this point.
I'm open to being surprised.
And also like, if it doesn't turn out #relatable
or #y'all are gonna tell me
all the things that I did wrong.
Anyway, happy Thursday and let's do this.
(clapping)
So I'm just gonna try a couple of different things.
Yeah, I'm finding my light,
different textures, different shadows.
Because I can develop a few things at once
and we can see what turns out the best.
It'll be a fight for the best photo.
(photo capturing) (upbeat music)
(laughs)
(photo capturing)
Oh interesting, can you even see?
Got it cool, I don't know.
♪ We're taking photos to print ♪
♪ We don't know who is our president ♪
I'm currently at a level consuming a lot of Tums
to not feel sick to my stomach
over what's happening in our world.
So I found some other like cool light spot.
(photo capturing) (upbeat music)
One more spot.
I'm just gonna do some the just like simple.
(laughs)
(photo capturing)
Yes, love yourself in defense of selfie.
(photo capturing)
(laughs)
Here's our setup, printer, computer wallah.
Ooh, so moody.
Okay, so now we're gonna take all of these into
this app that I found called Polarr Photo Editor.
That I'm gonna go more filters.
Lemme choose this sort of gritty black and white, invert.
There we go.
So now we have one of our negatives
and I'm going to print this out.
Ooh, holy moly you'll.
Okay, I got to say I'm impressed with myself at this moment.
Wow, look at that.
So we have our negative, I'm impressed.
So now that that's all done,
now we're in the chemistry part.
So I have my part A and my part B
these come with just like a dry powder in them.
I filled them both up with water
and I'm supposed to shake them up
until it's dissolved, I hope that happened.
Now the next step is to mix equal parts
into a container of some kind reactive-safe I would assume.
And this is all based upon reading the directions
and watching YouTube videos.
So now I'm going to sponge
on the solution onto my watercolor paper.
This is the part that's gonna be
reacting to the sunlight and developing.
So it must be done in a dim like low light.
I'm probably gonna have to go do this
in like a bathroom or something like that.
But I'm going to go like this.
so you go, oh yeah, so we like,
we mix, we mix, we swirl, we paint.
I'm gonna go do this in the dark.
Stay tuned for the next part.
Negatives, they are well,
whether you can see them or not, they're complete.
The only thing is I decided to print them
a little bit bigger than the frames
that I had bought specifically
to do this project with.
So I just found another frame.
So I'm gonna cut these down just slightly
so that they fit in this larger
but still too small frame.
Do you talk to yourself when you're alone?
Because I do.
So put negative paper and tight, take it outside.
Here she is.
Okay so we just let that sit for,
I'm gonna say for like 20 minutes.
Oh, you can see it's changing color already.
Can you tell?
It's turning blue.
Okay we're gonna try this.
We're gonna see if it's done.
This is where we got to with it.
It's gotten a lot darker
and now we're gonna dip it in water,
rinse it off and dry it off.
See what we've got.
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Look the color.
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So for my first attempt, it's not bad
but it's not good.
Can you even tell?
Okay, so in real life they can see
that it's, like I can see the impression on my face,
the blue gorgeous,
but I think I need to do this with more sunlight.
(laughing)
Yeah, leave it out longer
or whatever cool for a first trial.
Hello and welcome to day two of me
trying to develop photos, please pray.
Oh my gosh you did.
I'm amazed.
But I did do like a little bit of hydrogen peroxide.
Oh honestly, this looks good.
So now we're gonna try this one.
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This one looks like a weird tidal.
Let's try this one.
Oh wow, this came out more.
So trippy.
Where did we land here?
Final verdict, let's see.
So this was my first attempt at developing photos.
We have a beautiful selection
of nothing, absolutely nothing.
So then we went into round two.
Round two was getting closer, but it's super washed out.
I don't even think, this one you can barely see anything.
This one you can kind of make it out.
Then I got desperate.
I found one stranded piece of watercolor paper
that I had painted with the solution that I didn't use.
And boy did I put the pressure
on this one last sheet to deliver?
I cared for it like I was baking a souffle,
moving it carefully so that
the transparency on top didn't move,
listening to the new Ariana Grande album,
trying to figure out how long I should leave it.
It was like when the packaging says three to 30 minutes,
like (sighs) needless to say.
What I have is amazing.
Okay, this is cool.
This makes me feel like I have a shock here people.
That I might try this again, that there's potential.
There might be future birthday presents,
holiday presents for people in their future
because this worked.
It took me three days,
many attempts and a lot of nail biting,
but I got something that I think is kind of cool.
And now I feel like I can continue the process further
and maybe I'll get better.
Sending you love,
hope you're happy and safe
inside of your body and thinking of you.
Wishing you love.
See you next week.
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