A picture is worth a thousand words but a Polaroid costs 4 bucks a sheet...
This is my first full week of school which means it's time to buy supplies. I've gotten all the text books that I need, I rented a school locker and I checked out my view camera for my View Camera class. For those of you who don't know what a view camera is, it's a large format professional quality camera used for fine art and advertising photography. Here is a picture of the very camera that I am using.
Today after my classes I went to my local photography store to buy some 4" x 5" black and white Polaroid film for my view camera. Much to my chagrin it cost about $70 for 20 sheets of instant film! That's a hell of a lot of money to pay in my opinion but then again I've shoveled out big money for school before; last spring I had to pay $100 for 50 sheets of 13" x 19" Epson premium luster print paper for my digital imaging classes and I spent another $100 today for my "Art History: Renaissance through Modern" textbook. Despite my complaints of how expensive Polaroid film is I do feel that it is worth it. With Polaroid you can see exactly what your picture will look like in 20 seconds! This is great if you're trying to take a tricky shot with mixed lighting or you're trying to achieve a certain mood but you're not sure that you can pull it off. Polaroid gives you instant feedback of what your negative and ultimate what your print will look like. If you don't like what you see on the Polaroid then all you have to do is re-setup your shot and take another Polaroid until you've got what you want!
My first assignment for class is to take 3 different pictures of the sky using the view camera. Before I took the picture with film I did a Polaroid test to see what I'll come up with. Here it is:
I'm pretty happy with it, so I took two different shots of it using film. The wires and the telephone pole are almost black which is to be expected when you're shooting against a bright sky but I think it'll be fine. This is the second scene that I shot for the assignment. I need to find 1 more good sky shot, so here's hoping that we'll get a day that's not so overcast or I'll have more boring pictures of plain white skies.
-Joe
The Latent Image
This next picture is another one I took w/ the Polaroid and view camera. I like the result of this one more because I had MUCH more control over the light and focus on my subject.
Today after my classes I went to my local photography store to buy some 4" x 5" black and white Polaroid film for my view camera. Much to my chagrin it cost about $70 for 20 sheets of instant film! That's a hell of a lot of money to pay in my opinion but then again I've shoveled out big money for school before; last spring I had to pay $100 for 50 sheets of 13" x 19" Epson premium luster print paper for my digital imaging classes and I spent another $100 today for my "Art History: Renaissance through Modern" textbook. Despite my complaints of how expensive Polaroid film is I do feel that it is worth it. With Polaroid you can see exactly what your picture will look like in 20 seconds! This is great if you're trying to take a tricky shot with mixed lighting or you're trying to achieve a certain mood but you're not sure that you can pull it off. Polaroid gives you instant feedback of what your negative and ultimate what your print will look like. If you don't like what you see on the Polaroid then all you have to do is re-setup your shot and take another Polaroid until you've got what you want!
My first assignment for class is to take 3 different pictures of the sky using the view camera. Before I took the picture with film I did a Polaroid test to see what I'll come up with. Here it is:
I'm pretty happy with it, so I took two different shots of it using film. The wires and the telephone pole are almost black which is to be expected when you're shooting against a bright sky but I think it'll be fine. This is the second scene that I shot for the assignment. I need to find 1 more good sky shot, so here's hoping that we'll get a day that's not so overcast or I'll have more boring pictures of plain white skies.
-Joe
The Latent Image
This next picture is another one I took w/ the Polaroid and view camera. I like the result of this one more because I had MUCH more control over the light and focus on my subject.
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