I brought several cameras to the protests and only the polaroid gave me a look I felt was appropriate. The way the trucks were marked, the handwritten signs, the tents, everything had a late 70's feel to it which the polaroid film captured beautifully.I like the choice of monochrome for these -- it gives an "old newspaper" feel to the photos, even though I doubt anyone had seen a Sherpa (the ATV in the first image) in North America when newspapers were almost entirely monochrome.
I wonder how they compare
Thank youYour composition is what it must to be. Cheers
All of which are absolutely fine because they relate to the photographic experience.Here are questions that should be allowed. What was the response of the people involved? How did they react to you? What was their reaction to the instant prints?
I know you're not supposed to discuss politics and I won't. But to not be able to discuss the meaning of a photo or photo essay, defeats the whole point of taking the picture and exhibiting it. This isn't a landscape picture that you hang on a wall to pretty up the decor. The photo has content that you can't discuss. Content is the most important part of most pictures. For example, did the picture accomplish what the photographer was trying to say? What was he trying to say? Was the meaning clear in the photo? Things like that. To post "that's a nice picture" is meaningless. We learn nothing. To post a picture that is political in nature is political, to begin with. So if politics aren't allowed here, you shouldn't;t be able to post political pictures. Maybe this thread should be in the Lounge section. Maybe it belongs in Journalism and Documentary rather than Street. If it was there, could we then discuss the content?
Do you see the problem rules create?
By the way, I think it is great you came up with an interesting way to photograph this demonstration. I hope my saying that isn't political.
Not sure what you mean by "original" but my parents got a Polaroid camera in the late 1950s
The current batch of Polaroid film is a complete reformulation, following the original’s bankruptcy.
It’s actually an amazing story, assuming you hadn’t heard: https://www.filmsnotdead.com/the-impossible-project/
Now we're both in trouble.Great work, I foresee it as a documentary book and I completely agree with @Alan Edward Klein at #20. The act of making the photographs is political and the viewer needs to know the intention of the work. Let the moderators moderate.
Nope.Now we're both in trouble.
Initially they were very apprehensive. They felt betrayed by the media depicting them as racist homophobic extremist white supremacists and were afraid I would do the same. Once I explained to them I was an independent artist and was interested in showing the human side of the protests they really opened up to me. They actually LOVED the Polaroids; most of them were old enough to have grown up with them and were thrilled at the concept. I have a lot more to say about this photo project as I plan on making a photobook from this series.Here are questions that should be allowed. What was the response of the people involved? How did they react to you? What was their reaction to the instant prints?
I'm working on a explicative text recounting my experience - check back soon ;-)Great work, I foresee it as a documentary book and I completely agree with @Alan Edward Klein at #20. The act of making the photographs is political and the viewer needs to know the intention of the work. Let the moderators moderate.
Thank you. A while back I started a Polaroid thread - you should post them there !I think @fatso's Polaroids are some of the best I have seen from the modern generation of instant film (both technically, and artistically)! And I like the captions too!
But technically, judging by what few examples I have seen, I think the present generation of instant films (or possibly, the cameras) may still have some catching up to do, compared to the b&w Polaroids of the late 1950s.
No worries - we didn't want your family to be mistaken for fringe Canadians ;-)I want to apologize for uploading my images of older Polaroids to this thread (now deleted). I did so only because Dusty Negative was wondering how the old ones compare (post #23). I thought I was being helpful, and, again, I apologize if anyone was upset.
Front focusing was applied even at so many compact 35mm cameras. And with dye diffusion processes I tend to think that it does not matter. But as Polaroid employed both focusing methods, it seems to matter indeed.
Fringe Canadians - "Maximum Overdrive"
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This pic's a winner. There's so much in there coming together to make it good, the blown lights, the snow, the flags... perfect use of the format. I like this as much as the first one with the girl and the dog.
I love the 617s too. I have one of the first generation Fujis. I shoot it handheld most of the time, it's a blast. Well done!Said wall of rigs
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