Friday, April 11, 2008

Nearing the end

I'm getting pretty near the end of my Polaroid 600 stash. I suppose I'll be able to find some more here and there but as for now it looks like the glory days of shooting at will are over.

I've decided that since this is the case I would blog about all the sessions I have with my beloved Polaroid until the end.

I've been shooting 600 film. I did some research on this film before I started (after the death of sx-70 time-zero film) and the general feeling seems to be that it was NOT manliputable. Being hard headed as I am I wasn't willing to buy this. Sure enough it is manipulatable, though not in the pretty "impressionistic" way as the time-zero was. Instead you get "ugly""dirty" manipulations, but to me they look like art ( maybe I'm just nuts)

I've been using this format since October of last year and I'm really liking my results. Lately I've been trying to really get some value out of my shots rather than truly experimenting with the film, as i would have done given more time and more film resources.

I guess when I am done with my stash I'll move on to a Lubitel.

Here are a few shots taken the other day in Denver. enjoy!