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Polaroid SX-70 Street Shoot

A street walk in London with the wonderful Polaroid SX-70 creating Black and White Portraits in an almost perfect weather day in London. Learn how to frame and communicate with a subject to create well exposed and beautiful images on Polaroid SX-70. Enjoy!

Choosing the favourite image can be tricky too, no? Which one was your favourite from the shoot?

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Polaroid SX-70 Black and White Portraits

A street walk with the wonderful Polaroid SX-70 creating Black and White Portraits in an almost perfect weather day in London.

Learn how to frame and communicate with a subject to create well exposed and beautiful images on Polaroid SX-70. Enjoy!

Choosing the favourite image can be tricky too, no? Which one was your favourite from the shoot?

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5 Top Tips On Shooting Polaroid SX-70 in Strong Light

Common Mistakes Shooting with Polaroid SX-70 in a studio: https://youtu.be/JqtAMxPkjiE

Make a splash, use a flash, how convenient and appropriate is that when you are in a studio! Except when it’s sunny and bright outside and you live in England!

Right after we set everything up in the studio, I decided to look out the window very quickly.

The clouds had clear and there was just this gorgeous afternoon light, and I decided, right, that's it.

I wasn’t going to miss the rare opportunity to shoot outside. We went right out the gate, straight downstairs, and then started shooting.

Below are my top tips on how to shoot late afternoon with direct sunlight. How to make sure that every time you shoot in these conditions, you get a great shot every single time.

Don’t shoot directly with the sun coming onto your subject. Make sure that you are away from that direct harsh light, particularly with a Polaroid SX-70.

Find a place where there isn't direct harsh sunlight coming through. For example you may find a narrow alleyway or anywhere there are surrounding walls that you can use.

This way you’ll get some softer light, more spread out around your subject. This is particularly important when you're shooting with a Polaroid SX-70 from my experience.

Furthermore you’ll be able to focus better in those conditions as well as getting sharper and well lit images.

If you are going shoot with the direct sunlight coming onto the subject because you feel like that's going to create that drama and element that you're looking for, then just be careful about where those shadows are falling in the frame that you're taking.

Shadows late afternoon in the Northern Hemisphere just go nuts. So just be mindful of where you're standing and that your shadow is not in frame. Otherwise you might create something, which you don't want to have in your picture.

However, I think it's pretty cool playing with long shadows. If you carefully work with your subject then you can create quite a dramatic look, down to your personal preference. Just be aware that with that strong light coming onto the subject, you're going have those accentuated shadows as well.

Get really close to your subject. This is one of the most important aspects of shooting with the Polaroid SX-70.

Get as close as possible to them and you'll be able to frame them better. The quality of the images will also come out much better.

If you are taking from further away, be prepared to lose some definition in your subject. It might be a little bit more difficult for the Polaroid to capture what you're trying to capture. If you are taking a portrait for example, it might come out slightly blurry depending on your manual dexterity. With that in mind, just get as close as possible to your subject.

Keep moving, move your feet, get into new positions, new angles, every time you're taking a different shot.

With only eight shots on the Polaroid SX-70. Use each frame wisely. Don't just stand there each time with the camera, shooting the subject directly in front of you every single time.

Get creative with your positioning, move your feet to get that shot that you're looking for.

Try something different, try different angle. Every time you do that, you will find something new. Who knows? You might create some magic in that process. Something that you weren't expecting and that might come about or be the most memorable shot from the shoot that you've been doing.

Conclusion

Get creative with it, play with your positioning, move your feet as often as possible.

I absolutely love, love, love this camera. It's such a fun camera to shoot with. Strongly recommended.

If you don't have your own one, I highly recommend you getting one. It's got so much history behind it, I love it. I just love its designed, the way it operates, the feel of it. I've I've got so much joy out of shooting with this camera.

I hope that you found these tips useful for you, for when you do go out and shoot.

I've got a series of videos that I've already posted on this. Be sure that you go back and check out the other ones that I have posted.

Through the videos you'll be able to pick up something new and that will save you the time and money from making the mistakes that I've made along the way.

Let me know which photos were your favourite out of this set. Check out the other videos and I will catch you on another one very, very soon.

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How to create great portraits in cloudy weather on Polaroid SX-70

Polaroid SX-70 with Black and White SX-70 film in cloudy weather conditions. In this video you’ll see how to create great portraits in challenging light conditions.

The Polaroid SX-70 is fast becoming one of my favourite cameras to shoot with. In this video I will be shooting Black and White SX-70 film outside along this lovely canal, and our wonderful model Elena.

‘Shoot, wait, appreciate’, the dark slide message reads. I think this is one of the fun aspects of shooting Polaroids in general.

One of the quirks with Polaroid SX-70 film is that it is very sensitive to light. As such, it is very important to find a way to get these right in to the dark as soon as you have taken a shot. In this video I've got a dark slight tongue on the edge of the camera. So when the film comes out, it will be protected by the light, and that way it gives it a few more seconds to develop in the darkness, so the exposure is not so overexposed, supposedly anyway, so let's see what happens.

We keep moving on our feet, looking for new opportunities to shoot outdoors. With the typically variable British weather on the back of our minds at all times, the clouds started to gather and before we knew it we were running for cover. We took the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a coffee and review the images we had managed to capture!

Thankfully we did manage to get out and shoot with the Polaroid again, after it absolutely hammered [rained!] it down, it was just soaking wet outside. So it wasn't practical to go out and shoot with this camera, but we did manage to get some more snaps afterwards, and here they are.

As you can see, they came out really really well! We did a really good session this afternoon and the light was just right. I was a bit worried about the fact that we've got ISO 160 film and it was really, really overcast. Generally, if it starts overcast, you want to be shooting 400 ISO film. So maybe 600 Polaroid film would have been better, with a filter on it. Perhaps. Who knows? But I'm really impressed with the fact that we did manage to get the quality of the image that we've got, with such terrible light conditions.

My recommendation to you is don't hesitate, go out there, especially in England, it's going to be cloudy. It's going to be rainy, but in the gaps in between, get out and shoot, try to find yourself a space where there's lots and lots of light available to you and use that and move around, move around as often as you can find new spaces, new ways to pose your model, to be able to capture just that right image at that right time. I hope you've really enjoyed this video guys. And you've taken out a lot from it. Go ahead and watch the next in this series just here. And you will keep on learning new ways, new methods of shooting with Polaroid SX-70 in some really different situations and different circumstances. And every single time you can pick up something new, will save you a lot of time and a lot of money from shooting with the Polaroid SX-70.

Go ahead, watch the video, see the images, tell me which images that you like! Which one stood out for you? Let me know in the comments!

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How to create film noir portraits indoors on Polaroid SX-70

Polaroid SX-70 with Mint Flash Bar 2 on Black and White SX-70 film. In this video you’ll see how to capture moody classic film noir style portraits.

This is going be the Polaroid reveal video, and our reactions to it. I wonder how different our reactions are going to be!
Shooting with black and white SX-70 film on the amazing Polaroid SX-70. First frame we're going to use a half power flash, and see how that goes up. We're going to do a couple of those. You don't know if sometimes it does go off or not due to the age of these cameras!

Next shot looking through the mirror. See how we work through different sets and how to position and use the environment to create moody film noir style portraits.

How will the images come out? Watch and find out!

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Polaroid SX-70 with Mint Flash Bar 2

Polaroid SX-70 with Mint Flash Bar 2 on Black and White SX-70 film. First time shooting with the SX-70 Polaroid camera, and the Mint Flashbar, which is an additional unit you can get, so you can expose your images well in low-light conditions.

I put myself into a studio, and decided to give it a whirl on some black and white SX-70 film. When using the Mint bar to the far right because this is SX-70 film. And then, keep your contrast in the middle, and then it should be fine. So just focus, and then shoot.

Once you have taken your shot, quickly put your polaroid in away from any light. It usually akes 10-15 minutes to develop. Do this as quickly as possible, otherwise it will get overexposed.

As we progress through the shoot you’ll notice the variation in outcomes from the Polaroid SX-70 in very low light conditions. I used the The Mint Flash Bar 2 to overcome this challenge. The use of this flash unit yielded mixed results as you can see from the images.

I hope you enjoyed that studio session with Sophie. Shooting with the Polaroid SX-70 and the Mint flashbar on predominantly black and white film. And you can see the differences between the images in some places where it was underexposed and other places were overexposed.

The key, or just keep on trialling. See how it works, what scenarios you can put yourself in to see the differences that you can get in the images that you take. So definitely go out guys, recommend it.

Get yourselves one of these cameras and have a play. See what you can capture. I'm sure you'll be able to create some wonderful, wonderful images for you to keep in the future.

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Maybe you've seen some of the images in there and thought, "actually, I know what the answer to that question is, I know how to resolve that, how to light that better." I'd love to hear from you guys. So go ahead, make sure you comment in the comment section below. And I look forward to shooting with you again very, very soon.