In the year of 2018 everyone is used to the mobile phone with beautiful photos and share on social media such as Facebook and Instagram. Almost everything is digital and there is almost no physical photos made and collected as before. Do you remember that time is of the cameras with rolls? Once full brought you such a roll to the HEMA to retrieve them again after they were developed. It’s been a long time ago and since then there has been a lot has changed in the field of photography.
Happy times old habits often back again and so did the shooting with: the polaroid camera! Since the launch of the Instax Mini 8 by Fujifilm is this way of photographing in many countries has become popular again, crazy! In this way, we have the pleasure of shooting with the old polaroid camera. Also, as the new generations for whom it is all new with this fun and special way of photography.
Polaroid camera (Instant photography)
A polaroid camera or instant camera is a camera which the photo after the shoot directly from the device appears. The first few seconds there is nothing to be seen, but slowly the picture and your photo is ready. Really instant! So you can get a polaroid photo very easy away to someone as a souvenir. For example, a friend, family member or someone you’ve met during a journey. That is so much fun to instant photography: you are right something tangible in your hands. You don’t need a computer to display your photos and you also don’t have to wait for a development service.
The most commonly used Polaroid pictures of this time (depending on the type of camera) roughly the size of a credit card. The picture is surrounded by a white framework which ensures that typical polaroid look. Here you can find the photo grab it so the image itself remains nice and undamaged. You can also use the edge to write something such as the date, location, or a nice text. This makes it easy to remember. You can also do something for signs or paste to the photo on your own creative way to decorate.
The image of a polaroid photo looks in terms of look and feel a bit different than for example a digital photo. This may vary by type of film (the photo material) that is used, but most of the polaroid photos have a look that is often described as warm and vintage. A bit old-fashioned. Not as you’d expect from a digital camera or your mobile phone, but a piece of atmospheric. The older the polaroid photo, the more this effect is strengthened.
Polaroid photos vs. Digital photos
The Polaroid digital photos are perfect for making a nice photo album in which pictures of a special event. For example, getting a baby. How much fun is it to be a collection of real and tangible photos in a photo album that takes a quick look at instead of just a collection of digital photos in a folder on the PC?
A nice idea is to make each and every month a photo of your baby on the same place and this in such an fotoalbumpje. A unique way to see how your little has grown from month to month!
You can also create an album with photos of your wedding. What is more fun to do with Polaroid photos of you and your friend) is a collection of photos of you to stick on the wall in the form of a big heart (for example above the bed). Or you hang them on to small mini clothesline in a beautiful, empty framework of a painting.
The nice ideas are truly endless. You will see that the photos a lot of atmosphere to the room in which they are. In addition, you will of course also the digital photos, and that is fine, it is precisely in order that the digital shots are not the only photos that you have. The Polaroid photos fill your photo collection in a fun, original way.