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#polaroid

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Telmo 🦕

There’s something magical about watching a picture develop right after you take it—like with a Polaroid. But recently, I tried an old Sony Mavica, and the moment I heard and felt the tiny whir of the floppy drive saving the image right after pressing the shutter… it was a whole other kind of magic.

#photography#sony#mavica
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Luke Harby

#Introduction

Hi! I am Luke, hi.

I am an #artist solely using #filmphotography

I like to make images that don't look like photographs (to me all photographic imagery is illusory).

I use #LargeFormat, #MediumFormat and am also particularly fond of #Polaroid (although my stock is the Fuji equivalent, pack film of which I still have a decent amount but it is finite unfortunately).

Some images attached.

Link to my site is in my profile.

An abstract image of a prism photographed on mylar.
An abstract instant Polaroid photograph of a prism resting on some mylar.
A Fuji Instax instant photograph, it shows an old iPhone with a hole punched through the centre of the phone, on a bright plain white background.
An abstract still life from a series called 'Mimic Variable'. The background is bright yellow, there is a green, semi translucent green cone in the background, a smaller narrow chrome cone in the centre, a small sheet of acrylic mirror and some black draped cloth. In the foreground, but heavily blurred is part of a clamp from a c-stand.
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Indistinct Metalworker

Getting into #Polaroid photography -- especially with vintage cameras -- means having a large discard pile of Polaroids with defects that go beyond "funky imperfections" and cross over into just Not Good.

So I've started playing around with drawing on my discards with paint markers.

I don't draw or paint and this is the first time I've ever used paint markers and I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm having fun.

The first one is called "Eye Don't Have to Explain My Art to You."

A pale, washed-out Polaroid instant photograph of a street mural depicting two yellow flowers with open human-like eyes at their centers. The photo has been painted with black jagged shapes around the inside edges as if to resemble a view through a broken window, and one of the flowers has been traced over with paint in the same color as the original mural.
A blurry, washed-out Polaroid instant photo of Dolores Park with the San Francisco skyline barely visible in the distance. The photo has been painted with wild red and orange flames over the park grass, and thick wavy lines of grey, light blue, dark blue, and purple sweeping across the sky.
A Polaroid instant photograph of a street mural of a femme human figure with a peaceful smile, closed eyes, and colorful wavy lines for hair. Most of the waxy lines have been traced over with various colors of paint, and the three eye-like flowers adorning the bottom have been painted either in orange with a blue pupil or pink with a green pupil.
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Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙

Thinking about the peel-apart #Polaroid film I have hoarded in the fridge again. It's been 10 years since the last batches of b&w film were made, and values on eBay just keep going up, almost $100/pack. I'm locked in a state where I'm afraid to shoot it but also don't want to let go and sell it.

The top shelf of a fridge, half full of boxes of Polaroid film packs, most of it green Fujifilm boxes.
A photo of a black and white Polaroid shot of packs of film, with a small child in the background.
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