Today was something a little different for me and I choose to use one of the old cameras from my collection. I have never been one for overly abstract images and have always found them a challenge for me to create. But I have been inspired by other photographer's who are doing them in their Image a Day project, in particular Jonathan Marks (you can find him on facebook). I have been following his 365 day project for a while now and am very impressed.
So inspired, I pulled out my old Polaroid SX-70 and was planning to use some of the "Impossible Project" ( http://www.the-impossible-project.com ) film in received recently but to my surprise I still had some original SX-70 film in the camera. I choose my subject matter, a vase of silk tulips that was in the window and started to shoot. Making adjustments and trying different things I went through the last 3 sheets in the camera and liked the results of this one.
After shooting and waiting for the image to process I put it in my Epson V700 scanner switched over for photo's and scanned the image. Made a few tiny adjustments in photoshop and cleaned up some of the spots and thus have today's image.
Cool shot. Polaroid seems fun to play with, doesn't it? Darwin wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou do film projects every Friday as well.
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