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These flowers were whiffling in the wind by the oldest submerging bridge in Kochi.
I don't give it any PhotoShop effect so it's a shame this pic doesn't show the colors of the original Polaroid. (It's more vivid and clear in the Polaroid) But still the flowers are lovely, aren't they?
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha SE + 600 film, no filter
another step and then comes the soothing loneliness...
scotland, highlands
- impossible project color film 600 gen3
- polaroid
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361 Lincoln St
Sandra Bell
2021
“Children of Welland”
In my mural you can see four children of various races representing the immigrants that have come to Welland. Each of them is holding a Polaroid with a different event/monument in Welland such as the Main Street bridge, a dragon boat that represents the dragon boat races that take place on the canal, the Franco-Ontarien flag to represent the Francophones and roses to represent the “Rose City”. Under each Polaroid is some kind of date and short description of what’s in the Polaroid.
It was incredible to see my piece come together over the weeks I worked on it as well as see the excitement on the public’s face everyday when more and more of my piece got finished. I am so grateful for having gotten this opportunity and look forward to potential doing another Bell box in the future.
yesterday i posted a polaroid and when Sol commented that the whole polaroid biting the dust thing was "hard" i figured she was just lamenting in a general way the dwindling availability of films and papers and the over all shrinking of the "pre digital" world as it relates to photography. later that night i read the formal announcement from Polaroid that they were going out of business and then i spent an hour or more on different forums reading comments and opinions and speculations as to the future of the polaroid medium.
polaroid has been the single most influential aspect of my work as a photographer - even more than "film" and certainly more than digital with which i'm still in the process of getting acquainted. i could go on and on about how much i love polaroid - it's various "looks" - the specially modified cameras i love and use with it - how much i've learned about my vision from working with it - how it's effected and informed my process of seeing and making photographs - and perhaps most significantly how it's connected me with people through the years.
but this is not why i'm writing this. this is not a grave side testimonial.
after i read the announcement i mada a cup of coffee and went outside and sat on the porch, and within a short time i was overwhelmed with this sense of . . . . . ???
i'm not sure how to say it. i guess simply put it's common wisdom that everything we know "shall pass" - our shoes will wear out our loved ones will move away and eventually die - we will grow old and we will die . . . . . everything is changing - everything shall pass.
but what i was overwhelmed with was not some sort of doom and gloom thing - it was different than that. it wasn't about trying to hold on to or stockpile what can be stockpiled, it wasn't about coming up with some sort of strategy for slowing down or avoiding or de-sensitizing or managing in the face of eventual "loss" - it was something different, something about my feeling called to more deeply step into my experience of living - to be more present - more in the moment and more in touch with my appreciation and respect and love for all that i have while i have it - appreciative of all the gifts of life, my friends my loved ones my health a nice day . . . . .
i can't stop things from changing and it seems life is at least a lot about moving with and embracing certain kinds of change - but perhaps i can become more aware of my tendency to take things for granted, to act as if they'll always be the way i've known them to be.
maybe i can't effect the big unavoidable changes of life but maybe i
can effect change in my self - maybe i can be more in touch with my sense of appreciation and be more thankful and expressive of my appreciation for all that i have
i guess that's what i wanted to say and in keeping with that i wanted to say it here, to you. that in the remarkable and mysterious way that you and i are connected that i deeply appreciate your presence in my life.
thank you a lot
gary . . .
Cathedral Park, St. John's Oregon. 04 December 2021
It rained yesterday, at least for a while it was a soaking drizzle, like a super saturated mist. Anyway, I shot two Polaroids, neither of them developed as I had imagined them to be. But that’s part of the beauty of Polaroid, it doesn’t care what you think.
Polaroid OneStep 600, Polaroid 600 Yellow Duochrome film.
Cathedral Park, St. John's Oregon. 04 December 2021
It rained today, at least for a while it was a soaking drizzle, like a super saturated mist. Anyway, I shot two Polaroids, neither of them developed as I had imagined them to be. But that’s part of the beauty of Polaroid, it doesn’t care what you think.
Polaroid OneStep 600, Polaroid 600 B&W film.
Test shot with the new Polaroid SX-70 I've got from eBay, rather a clever little Polaroid, it's surprisingly small too, I rather like how easy it is to focus and how it look through the viewfinder, much better than looking through my Lubitel 166B viewfinder (quick note - i didn't like having the border on the Polaroid so I decided to just crop to the picture itself, nice and clean).
I managed to modified the 600 films into the SX-70, removing the ND filter on the sensor and set the camera to the darkest setting on the sensor, picture still came out slightly overexposed but not so much.
Who need Photoshop?
Edited - I've notice due to Polaroid announced that they won't be doing instant film anymore, this lead to an increase number of people searching "Polaroid" on Flickr, and since this polaroid came first out of the list of search, I take this chance to show you the Save Polaroid site;
"This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned, this is not about saving Polaroid, the company, rather the remarkable invention of Edwin Land, the instant film that made Polaroid a household name."
- can I take a photo of it?
-sure, but it's difficult. I tried a lot of time, and it never worked, it flies to fast.
-well, I'll try once.
-oh, what kind of camera is that?
- a polaroid.
-it must be expensive!
-well, it costed about 4 euros...
i was lucky :)
the kite was about 10 cm long...
This will probably be the last toy polaroid shot I upload for a while. I'll be having a Toys on Roids show sometime this summer (edit: it has been moved to November) in Minneapolis and there will possibly be an accompanying book. Many of my toy Polaroid photos on flickr will be included in both the show and the book, in addition to many more that I'll be shooting in the next couple months.
Thanks to everyone who has commented and said such nice things about my Polaroids over the last couple years here on flickr. It's part of the reason I feel confident enough to do a show, even though I'm still a little nervous and unsure about it. And with the end of Polaroid, it will certainly be bittersweet, but it's my way of paying tribute to the art-form.
When I have more info and dates are set, I'll post the info on flickr.
28.4.2009
Again me loaning cool camera stuff from my friends.. This time a Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1. That beauty has been lying on my desk for several days as I haven't had enough time to modify it to accept the Polaroid 600 film as required "Time Zero" film has been discontinued by Polaroid. It is sad that all these cool old school things are fading away.
Finally today I did some minor modifications to the camera and snapped this shot just to see if anything comes out from the machine. I felt like a little boy while waiting for the picture to appear on the paper. :P
I am quite sure that I'll be using this camera to commemorate the May Day celebration...
PS. See the ad to find more about the camera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOT7SwSgq2U
I think I always stay away from a skill I have just long enough to forget how to do it. It wasn't exactly my fault in this case since my camera had jammed, but by the time I'd pried out the offending Polaroid it had been months since I'd taken a double exposure. So this entire shoot was just a refresher course instead of building on what I knew. But relearning a thing can be just as fun, so who am I to complain.
Loved it so much, she did.
Which felt good, as I've gotten a bit rusty with Polaroid, of late.
Really comes down to use, I just don't use it as much as I used to, and that really sticks in my craw. Past few weeks have been great, in that regard, been shooting a lot of Polaroid for my trip, getting back into the right headspace to take good pictures in the format.
They're all different in my head, see. Digital, medium format, Polaroid, the point & shoot 35mm I acquired in Minneapolis (thanks, Cousin Patty!), my iPhone. I'm very conscious about how I use each camera, how each one is best suited for a particular purpose.
Which means I have to adjust my thinking when I'm using any particular camera, "what does this here camera do really well? How can I use that here?"
Right here, it was all about getting those eyes, and the Polaroid, it called to me. CALLED TO ME. "I can do it, coach, put me in the game."
And when that Polaroid voice calls, I got me no choice but to answer.
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If a shoot's got the right vibe, I take a polaroid. It's the reward, and also the hope that, since everything's going well, maybe we'll get some good instant action of it it.
Always a crap shoot. Current Polaroid film is...eccentric.
How'd I get these tones? Couldn't tell ya. Couldn't do it again if I tried (I probably could, but go with me).
That used to bother me. Hell, still does. But I'm used to it. It's been, what, nine years with the "new" chemistry. You either get used to it, or switch to Fuji, with their great film and their crap cameras.
No thank you.
Half the time, I end up with food for the trash bin. But with a bit of luck, bit of skill, I get something like this.
Worth it, if only just.
I really tried to mix the colors this time. wanted to see if i could make it more than just red, green, blue and black.
if only the pen had yellow. she was supposed to be a blond. oh well.
i take no credit for the actual polaroid. it was in some magazine.
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I interviewed a photographer last year, when I asked him how he comes up with his ideas for shoots, he stopped me, corrected me, said he doesn't call them Shoots. Doesn't call it a shot.
That's part of a language of violence, he told me. Colonial language.
Instead he calls it a sitting, a session. Creating an image. And that stayed with me, changed how I referred to these constructed situations. It's still an intentional change for me, I'll find myself stopping momentarily to change what I'm going to say, even harder when I'm on a film set, that kind of language being even more prevalent, being slightly more difficult to find alternatives for.
Being intentional feels good, though, that's part of the process working with film, working with Polaroid, it's necessary for getting into a flow, it can't all be instinct, that's not enough, it's both instinct and intentionality working in concert.
Up on the top floor of a parking garage, waning sun behind us, I've gotta trust my instincts, but take the time to think through the situation, both of them in harmony to get to this image.
polaroid
it's was chilly sunless day, and I was crawling around under the shrubs weeding, pulling, and chomping when I discovered a very large mama snake coiled in a small dish shaped snake place in the ground.
a big mama snake. big.
so I gently prodded her in order to make her move out of the way so I could weed where she was.
she turned her snake head and looked at me with her snake eyes and said, prod at me again and I'll eat your arms off.
I weeded somewhere else.
This was under some dusty fossil bones in a corner at the museum… I know I should have turned it in; but I confess to putting it in my pocket… on the back of the folded and dirty polaroid it said, “Weekly Pirates (Mssrs. Garrett, Bonney and Powell), Elfago Baca Museum, Enchanted Kodak Camera Club (EKCC), November 1962.”
ALL MY PHOTOS ARE NOW ON SALE!
At this point, the end of the session, the end of the light, it was easy to make Alex smile. She wasn't a tough one, she was into my "slightly arrogant but funny photographer" performance, we had a good time with it, the Polaroids were coming out real good, that's the key. Show 'em a good Polaroid, it's all over!
She'd seen good digital photos of herself before, of course, she'd seen decent Polaroids of herself before, but when I can pull off a real banger of a Polaroid, all warm LA sunlight and closer than anyone else gets, show 'em a photo of themselves they've never seen before, all the doors start to open up.
Figure that's a big ask of a photographer, but for me, that's the goal, every time. Not one I voice aloud, but that's the beauty of writing here, it helps me articulate my own process.
Show 'em something new, and a smile like this isn't far behind.
See the whole series on The Photographic Journal
My first lingerie shoot! This was taken yesterday, when I shot with the lovely Caroline who made my job so easy. Looking forward to getting the film back from the lab, for now here's a polaroid. :) It's different from my previous work, but I kind of like it. Still feels like me. What do you think?
Model Caroline Albertelli - © Els Vanopstal