My name is Li and I take photo for fun.
I needed a profile picture for social media, so I challenged myself to take a selfie in an excessively difficult way: on an SX-70, vintage polaroid film camera. What could possibly go wrong, right? This video details the process of me actually making the photo that ended up as the profile picture you now see on my channel. If you're interested in making your own, you can follow along.
As a bit of a disclaimer: I'm a terrible model. I don't usually photograph well, but I did the best I could. From all other respects, I think I did quite well. If I had more film readily available that night, I would have tried a couple more shots, but I'm happy with I have already.
This isn't an original idea. I was inspired by the reddit posts below:
reddit.com/r/Polaroid/comments/e4xg67/self_portrait_with_strobe_on_sx70_no_flash_cable/
reddit.com/r/Polaroid/comments/s84tlz/self_portraits_with_an_sx70/
There was another blog post that actually described the process that I had adapted, but I couldn't find the link back to the blog. I did try...
Table of Contents:
00:00 - Setting Up Softbox (Skippable)
00:35 - Introduction
01:44 - Talking About the Light Source
02:08 - Technical Limitations of Polaroid SX-70
02:58 - Talking About Exposure Control
03:24 - Practical Limitations of Potentially Wasting Film
03:46 - Using Digital Camera to Estimate for Film Exposure
04:34 - Talking About Softbox Placement for Portraits
05:30 - Test Image Results from Digital Camera
06:36 - Side Note Regarding Exposure for Digital Sensors vs Polaroid Film
07:10 - Setting up the Final Scene
07:35 - Setting up the SX-70
08:51 - Focusing the SX-70
09:24 - Taking the First Shot
11:02 - Taking the Second Shot
11:32 - Previewing the Two Shots
11:56 - Wrap Up
12:17 - Final Result
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