Do you remember Polaroids? You’d take a photo and the machine would spit out a square print with a white border. The image would develop from blank through to sepia and then finally full colour as you watched.
Polaroids still exist but they are now very specialist. The film, which was always expensive, is now about twice the price of what it was back in its hey day.
Lisa Zanderigo, my Camera Craft II instructor at the Australian Centre for Photography, turned the class on to Poladroid, free software for Windows or Mac that will convert any image into a Polaroid. After you’ve downloaded it, you drag a JPG on to the Poladroid icon on your desktop and it will process the image and spit out a Polaroid-style digital image. It emulates the “developing” process on screen and you will get a slightly different result every time you do it, even with a single image.
Of course, I had to play with some old images. It was fun watching them “develop” and I like the old-timey discolouration. Here are some of the pictures – and there are a few more on Flickr. Enjoy!
Here is my little sister and me on Christmas Eve last year. I was heavily pregnant at the time.
Here I am cutting the cake at my baby shower back in January. My brother-in-law’s fiancee Diane made it in a cake decoration class at Planet Cake.
After the pregnancy came the babies. Here’s a Polaroid of my son earlier this week with a cute grin on his face. Speaking of the little guy – he started crawling yesterday and today he crawled up a step! Clever boy!
It’s a fun program – check it out for yourself!
This is day ten of NaBloPoMo. I will be posting every day in November.
Previous NaBloPoMo posts:
November 1 | David Austin roses at Carriageworks, Sydney
November 2 | Books in Krakow, Poland
November 3 | Rhyolite, a ghost town in Nevada
November 4 | City by the bay: Best of San Francisco
November 5 | Silhouettes and shadows in the morning sun
November 6 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll at Belvoir
November 7 | Thai cookery class at the Spirit House
November 8 | Guest post: Hitting the language barrier in Sweden
November 9 | Learning Lightroom
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