Polaroids

[Cosette]

I did a search and found no threads related to polaroids, but I've always been so fond of these cameras. The pictures produced are so raw, and you can achieve amazing effects naturally, which is something that can truly be appreciated even more these days when the same effects can be done with a few clicks of the mouse.



All photographs are from http://www.plrds.com

Photographer: Arthur Stachurski

Armand Boets

Chris Rappucci

 

[Cosette]

Still all from http://www.plrds.com

Debbie Carlos

(a personal favourite... )

Israel Lund

Joe Dunn

Mikael Kennedy

Yoni Kifle

 

[Cosette]

Brian Bookwalter: "Shawshank Prison Cell " - Photography Polaroid, 2004

 

[Cosette]

Teresa Saska: "Spinning Wheel 1" - Photography Polaroid, 2005

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Debra Amerson: "Blue " - Photography Polaroid, 2004

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[titania]

Greeeeeeat thread, Cosette!! I love polaroids . I really like the first two pics - the colours are nice and it has a sort of eerie vibe to it. I think all the colours that are captured instantly with a Polaroid are amazing..... I just recently found an super dooper old Polaroid Portrait camera at work . Hopefully, I can 'borrow' it for a little while.....

 

[Cosette]

Thank you aquarius!
The first two pictures are favourites of mine, too - do you by any chance know how these effects are done? I know of one where you can press your fingers and bend the photo to create various results... but I guess putting it under limited lighting can change colours and such? I haven't had much experience with this sort of camera, but these pictures are inspiring me to experiment...

Oh and I would say definitely borrow the camera...

 

[fourboltmain]

http://www.flickr.com/groups/11961199@N00/

 

[fugfashion]

thank you Cosette for making this thread !

 

[Estella*]

wonderful thread, cosette, thank you.

 

[Cosette]

Thanks for that link fourboltmain! There are some beautiful photographs in that group...

You are most welcome fugfashion & Estella

 

[fugfashion]

love http://www.plrds.com

I really like this one from Juliet Sequeira

 

[titania]

Thank you aquarius!
The first two pictures are favourites of mine, too - do you by any chance know how these effects are done? I know of one where you can press your fingers and bend the photo to create various results... but I guess putting it under limited lighting can change colours and such? I haven't had much experience with this sort of camera, but these pictures are inspiring me to experiment...

Oh and I would say definitely borrow the camera...

I wouldn't have a clue !! It could have something to do with the natural lighting at the time the photo was captured or perhaps even the age of the paper inside the camera (or maybe even the age of the camera itself).

The colours captured in the "Shawshank Prison Cell" by Brian Bookwalter are amazing and the whole thing looks almost like an artwork to me.....

Well, I'm gonna see if I can borrow the Portrait Polaroid from work and I might ask about how those colours and effects are achieved .

 

[saribrett]

ooh emulsion lifts are so cool
http://www.tinamaas.co.uk/

http://www.l-usine-galerie.org/

http://www.davidstimac.com/

 

[snowqueen]

love polaroids .... super thread cosette. The other thing you can do with polaroids is peal the top layer off and it leaves a really cool werid print underneath ... kinda hard to explain ... well it used to.
Im tempted to dig out my old polaroid ... the only probalem is tracking down films ... do they still make them. I can remember them being expensive and impossible to find ... gotta new mission now lol xxx

 

[saribrett]

Polaroid film is much easier to find now that it's become "popular"

 

[.francesca]

Polaroid film is much easier to find now that it's become "popular"

this is true and false. polaroid is ceasing making certain types of film (one of my favorites, time zero for one of my favorite cameras EVER, the sx-70) and i believe a couple other types. it is really unfortunate.

last year i did a solo show of polaroids i took in the gallery i installed in, it turned out really well. i used to have some pictures on plrds.com, but i haven't sent him anything lately. i love that site, there are some amazing pictures on it! thanks for bringing this up, sarah

here are some of mine (is that allowed?) i call my polaroids "polarad"

the last group of 6 is from that installation.

 

[Cosette]

Francesca! I'm so glad you posted those. I saw them a while back in the Our Photography thread and fell in love - you really have a talent. And then the other day I was talking to Brian (fourboltmain) and he was saying how you're into polaroids, and so I was hoping you'd find this thread and post some, and sure enough!

 

[Cosette]

And by the way saribrett, I adore that second one from http://www.l-usine-galerie.org/... thanks for posting! It's beautiful.

 

[.francesca]

oh! that's funny, we used to talk a bit about polaroids and alternative photography processes. i'm nowhere near as good as some of the stuff out there, but it's really fun - i like the instantaneousness of it, without it being digital

here are some more from plrds.

debbie carlos

robby capps

 

[fourboltmain]

polaroid is ceasing making certain types of film (one of my favorites, time zero for one of my favorite cameras EVER, the sx-70) and i believe a couple other types. it is really unfortunate.

It the positive/negative 85 series too! There's a rumor Polaroid will stop producing film altogether in 07. Let's hope it's just that. Time Zero and the other Land Camera film will be phased out by March. I'm going to start stockpiling... You can use 600 I guess, but you have to make a card to slip in the film. I'm going to try to fab them out of sheet aluminum. If I pull it off, I'll hook you up with one. And then you have to do a couple other things, the website explains it.

Me and my sister, WAY back when: