{"id":29,"date":"2013-09-07T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/photography\/2013\/09\/07\/instant-film-polaroid-style\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T03:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T03:41:05","slug":"instant-film-polaroid-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/photography\/2013\/09\/07\/instant-film-polaroid-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Film Polaroid Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember those good old instant cameras? Well, you can still buy them but finding Polaroids instant film is not exactly easy. Sure, once upon a time you could walk into any store and find just about all the film you could have ever wanted.<\/p>\n

Today that\u2019s hardly the case but with the internet finding film is about having patience, the patience to find a good reputable distributor and then waiting for it to work through the mail system.<\/p>\n

In what was a spur of the moment thought I decided to replicate some picture in picture photography, but Polaroid style. I decided to get my girlfriend who is a very brave hand model to hold a piece of paper in front of my lens. I was hoping to do an 8×11 shot but I did not have any crisp paper with me, instead I found an old white 4×6 wedding invitation. She held the blank side of the invitation towards me; I framed the shot and took it, then I quickly took another without her hand or the paper in the shot. This gave me two photos, one with a clean background and the other with the paper and her hand which would essentially be the picture.<\/p>\n

In Photoshop I automatically stitched the two images together using the automated align & stack tool. I then used a layer mask to create a 4×4 square hole in the paper and allow the background layer to burst through. I tweaked the background contrast to make it look like there was a loss in brightness\/contrast to get more of a matte look on the paper and make it look like an actual photo of the background. I did want to make the image believable; otherwise it just looked like a piece of paper with a square hole in it (hardly the effect I\u2019m going for).<\/p>\n

Seeing as my remote trigger is a cheap 10 dollar Polaroid unit that operates flawlessly I might add, it was only fitting to make this the focus point of the image. Polaroid instant film meets a Polaroid trigger in a digital world.<\/p>\n

Maybe next time I\u2019ll bring some empty picture frames with me and see how those images turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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