Today while driving in the rain, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for myself as I didn’t take any of my cameras when I left home. Silly me! I should know better!
And then suddenly (and cheerfully) I remembered I left my Polaroid in the car a couple of weeks ago. So I took these pictures. And then I scanned them in black and white (the originals didn’t have much color anyway)
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I’m pretty bad about leaving cameras at home. Especially now that I have my classy Holga, my fancy Brownie, my vintage Ikon, and my modern Canon…with so many choices how could I ever manage to leave all of them behind?
Easily enough, apparently.
How do you decide which camera to take with you each time? do you have trouble deciding?
(by the way, I’m utterly impressed with your previous comment about my “favorite house”.)
Usually it’s the one that has film in it and is handy. For instance, today I had to run to Home Depot and since a glance outside showed dark and moody clouds, I grabbed the brownie, which was literally right in front of me at the time. I only take the digital if I’m going out with the purpose of taking pictures; the others are better for emergencies, because I’m not too worried about forgetting them in the car and then being robbed (although the antique Ikon would really suck to lose, but I doubt a thief would know what it is anyway).
As for my impressive comment, what can I say, I’m just amazing sometimes.
nice pics…
What Polaroid camera do you use? I find the spectra kind of limiting and miss the one before that. (Can’t remember the name, but was able to use a stylus to paint the picture while it was developing.) Also, do you develop your own black and white, or send it out. I don’t know that I want to breathe in toxic chemicals, but I know it’s cheaper to develop my own B&W film.
A good idea for a book would be to take us through the process from start to completion on your photographs. If you take 96 photographs and explain how they came to fruition, the camera, the story, the developing, printing, and ideas, photoshopping, scanning how-to’s, I’m sure many people would buy that book. I am always curious how people create. It fascinates me. I absolutely love your work. Do you do this for a living?
Lainey, I use a Polaroid One 600 but I am planning on trying a peel-apart type Polaroid one of these days.
I don’t currently develop my own film, no time and not much room.
I’m in a process of publishing a book explaining some of the techniques I use on my photos, so stay tuned.
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