Polaroid OneStep+ Series
Polaroid taken at a pop-up carnival outside the Will Roger Memorial Center in Forth Worth, TX.
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog. The good news is it’s been because going full-time freelance has kept me busy. Let’s do a quick recap on what you’ve missed:
I reached (and surpassed!) my revenue goal for the year which was the salary of my previous agency job.
I got to design a number of promotional emails and a landing page along with social assets for a major video game company.
I participated on a panel called “Inside the Minds of Brilliant Designers” along with two other incredibly talented designers and made the case for how Modernism as a design movement has gotten out of control, particularly when it comes to the field of UX design.
I submitted to Logo Lounge for the very first time in my career, and I’ve got my fingers crossed that one of my submissions makes it into Logo Lounge 12.
I dove back into photography as a hobby, and once again found it to be incredibly rewarding as a creative outlet.
That last point is what brings me to what you’re seeing in this post. At the very end of 2019, my beloved Impossible-1 camera took its last photo, and shortly after, I purchased Polaroid Originals’ newly improved OneStep+ to replace it. In the last few months I’ve been on a tear, photographing just about anything and everything. I’ve played with both black and white as well as color film, and discovered when and how and why it's best to use one or the other. The greatest lesson in using a Polaroid camera again has been in letting go. You have so little control over the final product. There are 3 settings for exposure, a flash button and a shutter and that’s about it. Polaroid has created an app to go with it to do some fun extra things like doing double exposures and noise shutters, but I’ve largely just used the camera as-is. Even the viewfinder doesn’t accurately line up with what the final frame of the photo will be so you have to just go along with what the camera gives you. The beauty has been in guessing how to take a shot, and enjoying that little bit of black magic that occurs every time your Polaroid comes out the other side.
Here’s a sample of some of the Polaroids I’ve taken in the last few months.
