Seven Black and White Polaroids (and a few Color too)

November 19, 2017

Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably have seen some variant of the "Challenge your friends to post 7 Black and White photos" post floating around.

Usually, I take it upon myself to do one of these independently, but this year I was tagged by two friends to complete a week of Black and White photos. This year, however, I had a box of the new Polaroid Originals B&W film for my SX-70 to play with.

This post is a collection of the photos I posted throughout the week of November 12-November 18, 2017.

Along with the B&W film, I also had a pack of the color option as well. I find the color SX-70 film to be much harder to work with (but this current formulation seems to render color a little better than it did in the past).

Week 21 – Location Scouting – Impossible Color SX-70 (Gen 1)

August 07, 2015

After a long-ish series of events, I finally tracked down and installed a frog tongue onto my SX-70. I had a spare pack of color film ready for an event sponsored by The Impossible Project here in Atlanta (that I ended up missing) and I figured I'd go test it out.

Even after doing all of the tips and tricks I have read, these photos turned out a little better, but still not where I want them to be for paying $25 bucks a pack. Aside from things being a little red on everything outside (Atlanta is quite warm) I just didn't feel like much of anything was exposed correctly. Oh well, it was a fun little experiment. Maybe once all of the kinks get worked out (if they ever do) I'll invest more time into Impossible instant films.

Development Notes:
Frog Tongue shielded images after coming out of camera, placed into film box while developing
Minor color correction done post scan.

Week 15b – Morgan – Impossible SX-70 Color Gen 1

June 12, 2015

Color impossible film (at least here in Gen 1) has a much stiffer learning curve than its B&W counterpoint. It is much more sensitive to light as it comes out of the camera than its B&W counterpart. I see now why most people recommend turning the exposure compensation a touch darker than expected.

I find myself less excited with many of the shots that came from this pack. Not only was it more expensive than most other stocks that I am working with, the 30 minute development time made it hard to see my mistakes and correct them. Although I hear that Gen 2 is a bit faster, I'd be curious to see what results I can get out of that instead.

On the positive note I did find a new location to shoot in, and it just so happens to be right across the street from my apartment.

Development Notes:
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Week 15a – Morgan – Impossible SX-70 B&W Gen 1

June 05, 2015

One would think instant film would be easy. Just point and click. But there is much more of a learning curve than you would imagine.

This was my first time using Impossible film, and I had read that the early generations were a little tricky to work with. Little did I know they were a touch harder than I expected.

The first time I worked with Morgan (about week 6 into my project) she insisted that I use my two boxes of Polaroid films on her. So of course I had to say "yes".

Overall I am pretty happy with the results, however next time I need to control how much light hits the film once it first comes out of the camera. I'm not sure how useful overall instant film is...but I am not against it.

Development Notes:
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