Polaroid Project

A show

For anyone in the Chicago area I am having a show of my Polaroid Project photos. It will include many from this blog plus many more new ones.  Come take a look. Friday May 14th Weegees Lounge 3659 West Armitage Chicago, IL  6pm to 9pm.

Adam

Longtime no post, "New" Polaroid camera

Polaroid slaps their name on a Fuji Fujix Mini 7 and calls it a new camera. I love Polaroid but if you can't make it yourself screw you. Buy the Fuji. They also make a larger Fuji Fujix with a bigger pic. Check it out at Fuji's website.

The Skyline is Great, Night or Day.

I love the skyline of Chicago, something about looking at it from a far, it is just a calming landscape. Maybe because we don't have any mountains around here so for me I get peace looking at the steel and glass monoliths. These are two images showing the skyline at night and day; my personal favourite is night.

Skyline Day

Skyline Night

Enjoy!

Polaroid Contest

My friend at Make Due and Mend published a post about this Polaroid contest from Blur Magazine out of Croatia.  Which of my pics should I submit? Let me know!

Adam

Alleys are Awesome!

Someone has some fun between the Elston and the tracks.

Then after a nice game of Alleyball they can take a nap.  O what fun you have driving around the alley ways of Chicago. These two pics are in the same area a 100 feet or so apart.

A smattering of Black and White w/Snow

 

This was from the first snow still in '09.

 

A little power for you?

Much more to come very soon!

A nice selection of colour!*%

 Some Polaroids shot with my Square shooter with either type 88 or 89. Type 88 being 80 ISO and 89 being 100 ISO.  The Square shooter I have is supposed to work with the Type 88 but does fine with the faster film as well. All processing times are approximately for type 88 are 60 seconds and Type 89 are 90 seconds.

 
Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field. The peel apart wasn't that clean obviously.

Again a bad pull I believe the rollers where gooped up.

The leaning tower of Pisa? Nope just a nice facsimile located outside a YMCA on Touhy Ave. in Niles, IL. I think it was originally a pizza place that put it up.

The front of a building on Racine in Chicago, Monsters live there.

Life's Too Short in Color.

That's all for now Adam.

Some more of the Black and Whites

Here are a few more not along the river though.

The Pickens-Kane overpass on Milwaukee by Kinzie.

 

The fountain in the square at Division/Milwaukee and Ashland.

 

A nice tree covered building in Logan Square.

P.S. Color images are coming soon.

New Black and Whites

So here are a bunch of new black and whites shot around Chicago in the last few weeks. They are on Type 87 and are done with a Square Shooter the ISO is 3200 on this film.   Let me know what you think.

Adam

 

The Railroad brige heading to across the Chicago River. Chicago Sun-Times in background.

A small Condominium building (I believe) right at the Chicago River and Kinzie. Looks like a spaceport out of Star Wars to me.

 

The remains of Life's too Short! the old bar falling apart on North Ave. and Elston Ave. The last image on this river run.

A lot has happened

In the last week or so a lot has happened in the Polaroid world.  The Impossible Project and the current owner of  Polaroid have agreed to collaborate, and the Project will be making film for Polaroid while Polaroid comes out with reissues of some classic cameras.   It appears that they are only developing the integral form factor (the kind that shoots out of the front of the camera) and not the peel-apart types like my favorite type 88 or the classic 669. So we will only be able to shake it and not peel it. If you want to shoot instant film today I suggest the Fuji Film Instax line of instant film cameras. I just got one from B&H and will have a review shortly. Check it out in the meantime. They have 2 different sizes, one small and one wider and slightly shorter than a traditional Polaroid 600 picture.

P.S. I have also been shooting a ton and have a lot of new pictures to fix up and post.

Adam