you've given me the push to try and print my stuff, waiting on the printer right now! I went to Florida finally not sure if I already mentioned this but I wasn't able to do a double exposure for some reason and or I forgot so I did a composition in photoshop of palm trees in the winds of hurricane Milton. Hopefully it comes out cool.
Not long ago, I was out again with my I-2, photographing the world around me. Take a photo, wait a moment, remove it from the camera, slip it in the empty I-Type box in my camera bag to develop, and move on. Rinse and repeat. I feel like I’m some sort of archaeologist at these times. At a dig site. Uncovering undiscovered, long hidden items, made by humans from the past. The world I’m in is always impacted, altered, changed by these humans from the past (and present). And the Polaroids are the artifacts I’m collecting. I store them away out in the field to be studied and analyzed and critiqued later. The Polaroids are formed and informed by the world from which they are made, so there’s a resemblance of that world in them to some degree. But, the Polaroids are NOT that world -the camera and film and process transforms that world into another thing. Related but wholly different in a fundamental, existential way. (That’s the reason I keep shooting with the I-2 - if it made merely faithful reproductions of what it captures, I wouldn’t shoot with it any more; I have several cameras that already do that.) If I’m lucky, my collected artifacts illuminate some aspect of the world in a magical way. But often I find it takes time for that revelation to reveal itself. It’s a process that can’t be rushed, won’t be hurried to meet a timeline or expectation or demand. So, yes, it’s always good to take the time to let the work mature, to remove the photo from the pleasure of making the photograph and always make sure the work succeeds and is strong on its own. Really enjoyed listening to you discuss your own re-discovery of work from the past. 👍🏼
you've given me the push to try and print my stuff, waiting on the printer right now! I went to Florida finally not sure if I already mentioned this but I wasn't able to do a double exposure for some reason and or I forgot so I did a composition in photoshop of palm trees in the winds of hurricane Milton. Hopefully it comes out cool.
@@phil_aesthetics awesome!!
Not long ago, I was out again with my I-2, photographing the world around me.
Take a photo, wait a moment, remove it from the camera, slip it in the empty I-Type box in my camera bag to develop, and move on. Rinse and repeat.
I feel like I’m some sort of archaeologist at these times. At a dig site. Uncovering undiscovered, long hidden items, made by humans from the past. The world I’m in is always impacted, altered, changed by these humans from the past (and present).
And the Polaroids are the artifacts I’m collecting. I store them away out in the field to be studied and analyzed and critiqued later.
The Polaroids are formed and informed by the world from which they are made, so there’s a resemblance of that world in them to some degree. But, the Polaroids are NOT that world -the camera and film and process transforms that world into another thing. Related but wholly different in a fundamental, existential way. (That’s the reason I keep shooting with the I-2 - if it made merely faithful reproductions of what it captures, I wouldn’t shoot with it any more; I have several cameras that already do that.)
If I’m lucky, my collected artifacts illuminate some aspect of the world in a magical way.
But often I find it takes time for that revelation to reveal itself. It’s a process that can’t be rushed, won’t be hurried to meet a timeline or expectation or demand.
So, yes, it’s always good to take the time to let the work mature, to remove the photo from the pleasure of making the photograph and always make sure the work succeeds and is strong on its own.
Really enjoyed listening to you discuss your own re-discovery of work from the past. 👍🏼
Waffle Bench! Classic!
Very curious about your opinion on the Lomography glass
@@WhoIsSerafin you’ll find out Friday!