Archive for August, 2010

Polaroid 100 Blue Film

While travelling between meetings in East Cork yesterday I managed to shoot a pack of Polaroid Type 100 Blue Film (Paul Giambarba Edition) into my Polaroid 600SE. This film produces gentle monochromatic blue tones ranging from lilac to deep blue. My plan was to keep the landscape work minimal, this location worked great because it was pretty stark with plenty of lines in ground from the cut crops and farm machinery indentations. It was tough to compose with the viewfinder system, hopefully the acquisition of a Mamiya Press focusing screen will help take a lot of guess work out. Needless to say, the scans do little justice to the end product but it gives a good impression of the film’s capabilities. The polaroids were backward peeled to leave a paper border on the image.  All images were shot handheld - 1/60sec @ f16. Thanks to John Dunne for allowing me to access the land.