Hey Matt, I just tried and it was a lot of fun. Thanks for the tutorial. Dont know if it was just my image or because I used very hot water but it came of pretty much all by itself.
boiling water is best for this experience. Make it boil, then put the water in a tray, and then put the pola into the water. It will come out much easier indeed :)
Finally got round to giving this a go. Because I don't do things by half, I thought it would be a nice idea to take a slice of our Christmas tree and lifted a polaroid of the tree onto the slice. I'm pretty pleased with it so it may become a tradition!
Did some of these years ago, lots of fun. I used a crockpot of hot water & film that had only been shot 24-48 hours earlier. The emulsion comes off nice & easy, though I do remember a lot of globby gelatin in the water! Thanks for the vid, I'm gonna have to do more of these again soon. By the way, ever do Polaroid transfers? Also creates a cool, imperfect effect.
Cool. I haven't seen this done in about 25+ years. We used to do polaroid transfers too, in addition to lifts. Glad you're helping keep the process alive by sharing it with your audience, Matt.
Thanks for introducing this technique Matt. I had great fun doing that tonight; I was surprised to see that the result turns out slightly bigger than the original photo.
scratching/drawing during development, but once that shit has set nothing short of bleach is separating it from the front. Not sure it's emulsion, per se - it's almost like several coats/layers of hardened powder coat. If you trim the edges and remove the clear backing and let it dry, it starts to curl and you can crack/chip the whole image off of the front plastic, but under hot water it doesn't release, it just gets fused back to the covering again. Bleach, if you are careful, can have some cool effect on the image without eating all the way through, but if you leave it too long you will have a nice clean piece of plastic and the rest of the image will be gone down the drain. Great film, but so far not a very workable medium for art projects.
Guymandude 1 I’m not sure if it’ll stick if you’re using glossy photo paper, but 300g acrylic or watercolor paper works well for me. Basically something that can be submerged and is not very absorbent.
Haha thank you very much I just remembered my childhood I have done it when I was a little kid about7-8 before that I’d carry papas camera and always would break my fathers cameras😂 from 1 to 5, but then got into it I did and many then you could glue it to you high school paper cover 😂😂👍👍✌🏼😎 Then civil war started back home and only just now I found my childhood passion and specially film tnx to You and some other UA-camrs who do film
Very cool. I will be sure to try it. Once it dries, does the emulsion stay stuck to the paper pretty well? Or do you need to put it in a sleeve of some sort to preserve it? Love your videos. Keep at it!
Hi Matt. I came to this old video to ask you if you ever tried emulsion lifts using the new Polaroid Originals Color film. I was able to do it with Impossible film, the same way you showed in this tutorial, but not with those new Polaroid Originals films (Color 600). The emulsion is too thin and there´s a transparent gel layer that sticks to the image layer an tears it apart when you manipulate it in the water... I tried warm water as well and didn´t work. Well...Just let me know if you ever tried the new films, if the emulsion lifts worked on them and if you have any tip ... I´m struggling!
Great video!! I'm having an issue where a pack and a half of film isn't peeling apart right. Instead of the white chemical part sticking to the cardboard it's sticking to the photo and trapping it in against the clear plastic. Trying to clean the white stuff off the photo smears it and ruins it...not sure what to do!
Hey Matt, I recently stumbled across this video, thanks for running us through the process. quick question, what exact size were those paper squares you used, looked like the perfect size for what I'm trying to do. kind regards.
Really cool to do. So much fun! So great video idea! Have you ever bleached the fp-100c discards to get the negative out? That could be a great video to do similar to this.
I have two questions 1) can you overlap 2 pictures when doing an emulsion lift? Like you do one first and then another one making them overlap a little? 2) once dried will it need to be "shielded" in any way? Thanks :)
Hi man! Thanks for the tutorial! No matter how gently i go, my color polaroid (600) keep on ripping... Black and white go perfectly though. I've been going very gently, would you have any advice?
Hey Matt love this channel and i want to thank you for always being honest and sharing so much knowledge with the film community. Im kind of new to the film shooting world. What do you know about nikkor glass with "thorium"? I saw this on youtube and now i am very concerned since there are kids in my home. Do you know what lenses have this? I have and old F2 camera and a few lenses : nikkor 20mm F4 , nikkor 50mmF1.4 pre ai and a 135mm 2.8 nikkor. i havent picked up my camera anymore since i saw this. I hope you have some information on this matter. I know there are alot of viewers and film shooters who are new to film and are not aware of this. Should i get rid of my lenses? I hope you get back to me i know your a busy guy and still take the time to make videos and help out alot. thanks again Matt.
i spent a good 30 mins on this and was wondering why it wasn’t working and then near the END of the video he says it doesn’t work with instax he should’ve leaded with that
Hello, is this effective for a film that goes wrong? Like in a dark photo, because i have films like that... so i thought if the pic is dark...then the negative can retrieve the real photo or the captured photo?
Hi Matt, I hope you still read back comments from older videos. I've done an emulsion lift on some acrylic glass. When the photo dried however, it curled up and got loose from the glass. Any idea how to prevent this? Did I do something wrong?
hola, muy bueno el video !! gracias! ahora una pregunta: cuando la emulsión se seca se me despega del papel. que puedo hacer? se vuelve rígida y se levanta del papel.
Love it man, I love it. I was wandering if it would work if I did dry glue, transferred it, them vacuum formed (I think it is) or laminated the photo, if it would keep its form :0 :D
damn it. I fell in love with this lifting thing ! i will try it ! is it working w/ instax? Thanks again for your good work (and a special thumbs up for your preach (amen) on the last video (y) )
Do the colours fade at all? Looks a little faded when it's finished, but can't tell if that's from the process itself or simply because it's on a different material now.
I tried this a few times. The first two times I tried boiling water. The emulsion lifted very easily but the edges curled up really tightly and I couldn't get them uncurled. The third time I tried microwaved water (4 minutes) and could not get the emulsion to lift. It tore as I was removing it.
hello, how careful do you need to be to keep the white flaky chemicals going from the first warm water tray to the 2nd cold water tray and getting trapped between the emulsion and paper? thanks
Why do you talk to him like he was some sort of semigod or something? it was a perfectly reasonable question and now you made it sound like it was wrong asking.
Hi, when i tried to tear the black part off before i put image into the water,I can only tear a clear plastic sheet off and black colour still lives with the image. I am just wondering why it happened??? I am a design student and really want to use this for my design project
@@YollowBoys ...hey man...don't mislead people if you are not sure about stuff...it turns out there is a way to take digital photos and do an emulsion lift with them....
Hey Matt,
I just tried and it was a lot of fun. Thanks for the tutorial.
Dont know if it was just my image or because I used very hot water but it came of pretty much all by itself.
boiling water is best for this experience. Make it boil, then put the water in a tray, and then put the pola into the water. It will come out much easier indeed :)
I know I'm way late to this conversation, but I'm learning the hotter the water the more fragile the emulsion.
@@jloulify maybe distilled boiled would work best. No contamination?
Bob Ross lol. I'd be interested in another video using Fuji pack film!
You can only do this with Polaroid
Finally got round to giving this a go. Because I don't do things by half, I thought it would be a nice idea to take a slice of our Christmas tree and lifted a polaroid of the tree onto the slice. I'm pretty pleased with it so it may become a tradition!
I'd never heard of this technique - very cool!
"There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend" - Bob Ross
Jeez, I haven't done this for a long time. Brings back memories.
I actually did the Polaroid transfer, not the lift.
Did some of these years ago, lots of fun. I used a crockpot of hot water & film that had only been shot 24-48 hours earlier. The emulsion comes off nice & easy, though I do remember a lot of globby gelatin in the water! Thanks for the vid, I'm gonna have to do more of these again soon. By the way, ever do Polaroid transfers? Also creates a cool, imperfect effect.
Cool. I haven't seen this done in about 25+ years. We used to do polaroid transfers too, in addition to lifts. Glad you're helping keep the process alive by sharing it with your audience, Matt.
Nice job, btw! You may want to use larger trays. Will give you a little more room to work.
Same here! Pola transfers and Pola emulsion manipulation pieces. Try it on a larger piece of paper, so it is more of a floating matte effect.
Great video and very much loved the Bob Ross reference!
very therapeutic watch, you read my mind when you mentioned bob ross!
bro, your hoodie. yes.
I did transfers when 669 was available. I'm going to give this a try. Thanks for filming this.
Hope it goes well! Some of my favorites from years ago were made on 669. Some freezer stored blue-tone goodness.
I'm trying this now with.polaroids from the 50s. Iguess this only works with certain film types? Thanks
Thanks for introducing this technique Matt. I had great fun doing that tonight; I was surprised to see that the result turns out slightly bigger than the original photo.
I’m glad that I found your video!!! Thank you for sharing ☺️
Loved watching this and thanks for sharing how to do this. I really liked how this ended up... rough but elegant art!
Super helpful tutorial. Many thanks from Aus 👍
I once did the Emulsion transfer with just my fingers
Wow
@Matt Day The back black plastic is the negative. For color IP, you can reclaim that negative.
Haha that sweatshirt is awesome. Thanks for the share Matt!
This is beautifully done Matt Ross. You said you can't do this with instax film. Is there anything you CAN do creatively with instax?
I'm watching this video thinking "hmmm, maybe I can do this with my instax." Read your comment. :(
scratching/drawing during development, but once that shit has set nothing short of bleach is separating it from the front. Not sure it's emulsion, per se - it's almost like several coats/layers of hardened powder coat. If you trim the edges and remove the clear backing and let it dry, it starts to curl and you can crack/chip the whole image off of the front plastic, but under hot water it doesn't release, it just gets fused back to the covering again.
Bleach, if you are careful, can have some cool effect on the image without eating all the way through, but if you leave it too long you will have a nice clean piece of plastic and the rest of the image will be gone down the drain.
Great film, but so far not a very workable medium for art projects.
Aaron Doucette I appreciate your ideas
@@instantkamera can you do scratching with a regular polaroid?
I should have read the comments first too haha! I’m definitely going to try the bleach and scratching. Thanks for the ideas!
This is so cool I want to try it with my polaroids!
I'd like to see this done on a polaroid 20x24 print!:D
here you go: ua-cam.com/video/OqfxEJ85Ez4/v-deo.html
look up jack perno.
That looks more like an 8x10
Matt, is is necessary to put a clear coat or say acrylic to set the image? Thanks
This is something I'm going to do. Thanks for sharing Matt!!
Very cool. I would be more interested however is transferring the Polaroid to a transparent film to use to make enlargements.
Thanks Matt your videos are great.
Never knew something like this was possible :)
Kinda stressing watching the process ahahah! Thanks for sharing. I need to try it!
would photo paper be best for this. I just wasn't clear on what kind of paper to use. This looks super cool and fun to do
Guymandude 1 I’m not sure if it’ll stick if you’re using glossy photo paper, but 300g acrylic or watercolor paper works well for me. Basically something that can be submerged and is not very absorbent.
Very educational and inspiring, thank you Matt. Now maybe I can make something 'artistic' out of my impossible project rejected shots. 🙋
Haha thank you very much I just remembered my childhood
I have done it when I was a little kid about7-8 before that I’d carry papas camera and always would break my fathers cameras😂 from 1 to 5, but then got into it I did and many then you could glue it to you high school paper cover 😂😂👍👍✌🏼😎
Then civil war started back home and only just now I found my childhood passion and specially film tnx to You and some other UA-camrs who do film
Love the comment about Bob Ross, bless him. Thanks this is really cool and hey, what instant film was this and what instant camera did you use.
Awesome to have a video tutorial for this ..
i gotta try this sometime and love the bob ross style
Do you apply a coating like a varnish or fixative to preserve the emulsion lift on the paper?
So great! Thank you
Coolest hoodie!
Very cool never seen this done.
love the Stranger Things sweatshirt
well done, thank you for the tut
Very cool. I will be sure to try it. Once it dries, does the emulsion stay stuck to the paper pretty well? Or do you need to put it in a sleeve of some sort to preserve it?
Love your videos. Keep at it!
Love your vids Matt
I rubbed the caustic paste off under a tap and it made it clear.
Hi Matt. I came to this old video to ask you if you ever tried emulsion lifts using the new Polaroid Originals Color film. I was able to do it with Impossible film, the same way you showed in this tutorial, but not with those new Polaroid Originals films (Color 600). The emulsion is too thin and there´s a transparent gel layer that sticks to the image layer an tears it apart when you manipulate it in the water... I tried warm water as well and didn´t work. Well...Just let me know if you ever tried the new films, if the emulsion lifts worked on them and if you have any tip ... I´m struggling!
Love the hoodie 👌👌😍
Great video!! I'm having an issue where a pack and a half of film isn't peeling apart right. Instead of the white chemical part sticking to the cardboard it's sticking to the photo and trapping it in against the clear plastic. Trying to clean the white stuff off the photo smears it and ruins it...not sure what to do!
i definitely wanna try this now!!
Hey Matt, I recently stumbled across this video, thanks for running us through the process. quick question, what exact size were those paper squares you used, looked like the perfect size for what I'm trying to do. kind regards.
I did it ! It was really easy !
Thanks :)
Really cool to do. So much fun! So great video idea! Have you ever bleached the fp-100c discards to get the negative out? That could be a great video to do similar to this.
I have two questions
1) can you overlap 2 pictures when doing an emulsion lift? Like you do one first and then another one making them overlap a little?
2) once dried will it need to be "shielded" in any way?
Thanks :)
i like that idea! double exposure kinda vibe.
Hi man! Thanks for the tutorial! No matter how gently i go, my color polaroid (600) keep on ripping... Black and white go perfectly though. I've been going very gently, would you have any advice?
whaaaat this looks so cool, I'm going to try it with the fp100c film.
Monica Henriquez fp100c is different, as the print isn't a sealed capsule like sx70 etc. Can still be done though 👍🏼
I will have to try this.
Love this!
Hey Matt love this channel and i want to thank you for always being honest and sharing so much knowledge with the film community. Im kind of new to the film shooting world. What do you know about nikkor glass with "thorium"? I saw this on youtube and now i am very concerned since there are kids in my home. Do you know what lenses have this? I have and old F2 camera and a few lenses : nikkor 20mm F4 , nikkor 50mmF1.4 pre ai and a 135mm 2.8 nikkor. i havent picked up my camera anymore since i saw this. I hope you have some information on this matter. I know there are alot of viewers and film shooters who are new to film and are not aware of this. Should i get rid of my lenses? I hope you get back to me i know your a busy guy and still take the time to make videos and help out alot. thanks again Matt.
Hi ! I love that technique, thank you for your video ! I have a question : Does it work with all the polaroids cameras or do I need a special brand ?
This is realy amazing!!
i spent a good 30 mins on this and was wondering why it wasn’t working and then near the END of the video he says it doesn’t work with instax he should’ve leaded with that
well instax is no polaroid
Hello, is this effective for a film that goes wrong? Like in a dark photo, because i have films like that... so i thought if the pic is dark...then the negative can retrieve the real photo or the captured photo?
think you've got a spot on your sensor? only gonna see it at smaller apertures and against bright and plain backgrounds
Hi Matt, I hope you still read back comments from older videos. I've done an emulsion lift on some acrylic glass. When the photo dried however, it curled up and got loose from the glass. Any idea how to prevent this? Did I do something wrong?
hola, muy bueno el video !! gracias! ahora una pregunta: cuando la emulsión se seca se me despega del papel. que puedo hacer? se vuelve rígida y se levanta del papel.
Love it man, I love it. I was wandering if it would work if I did dry glue, transferred it, them vacuum formed (I think it is) or laminated the photo, if it would keep its form :0 :D
Ok so please advise the steps for vintage Polaroids from the 70s ???????
Grazie per questo video molto interessante
damn it. I fell in love with this lifting thing ! i will try it ! is it working w/ instax? Thanks again for your good work (and a special thumbs up for your preach (amen) on the last video (y) )
Benjamin G. Sadly instax film doesn’t work for transparencies and emulsion lifts. It’s a shame, isn’t it?
Do the colours fade at all? Looks a little faded when it's finished, but can't tell if that's from the process itself or simply because it's on a different material now.
I tried this a few times. The first two times I tried boiling water. The emulsion lifted very easily but the edges curled up really tightly and I couldn't get them uncurled. The third time I tried microwaved water (4 minutes) and could not get the emulsion to lift. It tore as I was removing it.
so I could maybe do this and dry it on watercolor paper, use watercolor ground to paste it, and then paint over the emulsion??
I just bought a polaroid this week, lol
hello, how careful do you need to be to keep the white flaky chemicals going from the first warm water tray to the 2nd cold water tray and getting trapped between the emulsion and paper? thanks
Is it more difficult to use colour film in comparison black and white 600 film ?
I remember 105 F degrees for image transfer
looks like fun
Hi Matt! I know it's been a few years since you did this, but could you tell me which kind of polaroid paper you need to use? Thanks!
Do you know if instead of a piece of paper I can just transfer it on a notebook or something?
So now I understand the "how", but the "why" is lost on me. What's different between this and just storing it in the original "packaging"?
its just a fun thing to do, don't overthink it
harrumphicus Some things in life are fun.
Art??
Why do you talk to him like he was some sort of semigod or something? it was a perfectly reasonable question and now you made it sound like it was wrong asking.
Fun? Or useless?
Any chance that black plastic was the negative, similar to FP-100c?
Hi, when i tried to tear the black part off before i put image into the water,I can only tear a clear plastic sheet off and black colour still lives with the image. I am just wondering why it happened??? I am a design student and really want to use this for my design project
Do you need a gluing process to attach the emulsion to paper?
How did you dry the paper afterwards so that it does not warp?
he used a water color paper
the black plastic is the negative layer.
What type of paper did you use?
have you experimented with polaroid transparencies?
Hello Matt. Is easy to scan it after the whole process?
“As YoU cAn SeE oN tHiS cLeAr PiEcE oF pLaStIc”
Can you do this on instax mini film
nope.
did you scan this in? if so i would love to check it out!
so interesting nv knew about this
would this work with FP100c or land camera polaroids?
Burn to the edges without toasting the whole image and mount it.
Can a lift be done in layers to compost the colors
can I do the same process with the negative?
Hey, is there a way to take a digital photo and develop in the style of a Polaroid... so that we could do a emulsion lift with it later?...
no
@@YollowBoys ...hey man...don't mislead people if you are not sure about stuff...it turns out there is a way to take digital photos and do an emulsion lift with them....
Can this be done with Fuji instax?
My Epson scanner has the same bug.
Would it conform to a canvas texture wwll?
What type of film do you need?
the black part is the negative of the photo with bleach you can reuse it !!