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Polaroid SX70. Polaroid ATZ.
I'm going a bit bonkers with work – there's another one of those hideous deadlines looming – so apologies if I'm a little on the quiet side round the Flickrverse at the moment.... not long to go now.... i hope!
On the bright side – given my ongoing obsession with Whistler's river nocturnes – I think ATZ may be the most Whistler-ish film I've yet found....
i was told this was an old WWII era bunker on the beaches of Aquinnah, MA
Polaroid SX-70
Polaroid Artistic TZ (expired)
frost melting off grass stems as the sun first hits it...
working with ATZ film seems to present the biggest challenge to my original-image vs. photoshop sensibilities: ordinarily i try to scan polaroids to look as much like the actual pola as possible -- except for when it looks infinitely better having messed around with the levels or curves a bit in photoshop. usually those differences are fairly subtle, and since the scanner settings are in some ways arbitrary digital waypoints, i don't think too much about it.
but with ATZ, the originals are so non-contrasty & often very green, that minor tweaks can really fundamentally change what the image looks like. if i take this starting point & tweak the levels a bit, much more vibrant colors appear, usually in the green/cyan direction (see previous). if i click "autolevels" before trimming the white border off (which my scanner tends to scan pale blue), i get increased contrast plus the colors often change wildly, sometimes into deeper blues (like this one), often in the direction of more yellows, reds, and browns (i'm pretty sure i did that here).
this morning i made all three versions of this image, and then went with the least-manipulated one -- but tomorrow i might have a different reaction. i see no point in being a "purist" about scanned polas, the scan is always going to look & feel different than the original -- but not sure if i want to give myself SOME boundaries on the amount of manipulation? my mood about it varies from day to day...
for others who work with polaroids (or negatives, for that matter) -- how do you find yourself making these choices?
Tuesday - sx-70 - atz
me looking out of the window. it's raining all day.
oh! and by the way. this is my 100th Polaroid I uploaded on flickr! yeah.
Polaroid Land Camera SX-70 Model 2
Polaroid Artistic Time Zero film (ATZ)
expired 09-09
Washington County, NY
Susan is lovely. I took this during 'roid week, but I guess I'm too late to upload it. I think it's the best pola I've managed so far. I can't decide if I like this alone, or if I prefer it was a diptych (previous upload). You choose.
Polaroid SX-70 / ATZ
"They looked up from below striae discernible in shades of earth. That line of dark--the residue of ancient fire? What was that white?" - China Miéville, from The City & The City
Skirting the ATZ, US Air Force 'Special Ops' CV-22 Osprey
'Knife 79' passes the Rampion Wind Farm located South abeam Shoreham Airport
Ahead of her was 'Knife 71' - both having been operating earlier down Dorset way and were taking the scenic route back to homebase RAF Mildenhall
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SK63 ATZ is an AD E30D/AD Enviro 300 new as First Glasgow 67785 in October 2013. It is seen here on Bath Street in Glasgow whilst working service 77 (Buchanan Bus Station-Braehead).
Polaroid SX-70 Sonar OneStep
Artistic Time Zero (ATZ)
expired 9-2009
Ghent, NY
A collaboration with the very talented Miss Emily Hassell.
SN62 ATZ is an AD E30D/AD Enviro 300 new as First Glasgow 67759 in February 2013. It is now part of the Midland Bluebird fleet at Bannockburn garage and was one of 19 Enviro 300's that transferred from Glasgow in 2015.