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Why Shoot Polaroid

Why Shoot Polaroid

If you watched any of my courses or any of the previous practicing photographers, you know that I proof digitally. Oddly enough, there's like 150 years of photographic technology that comes before that, that we haven't talked to at all. Today on the Practicing Photographer, we're going to look at one tiny little slice of that old technology, and that's Polaroid. I'm here with my friend Troy Word, a fashion photographer that does a lot of work digitally. But Troy we were out shooting today and you had your Polaroid with you. Now, you're a guy who's got everything from a 1DS Mark 3 to a, to a red camera, why are you shooting Polaroid? >> Well, you know, it's interesting because I've, I started obviously shooting film, you know when I was 11 years old you know. And there's, I, you know, there's an amazing sort of romance I think to film. And Polaroid is kind of, part of that. And I feel like, it's kind of, a way to like, cleanse your visual palate in a way. To sort of, throw away all of…

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