The Long Island Sound

  Having grown up and living minutes away from water most of my life, it's often that the privilege is taken for granted. I only recently started to go back, more and more due to my interests in photography. 

  Recently, I came into the ownership of a vintage Polaroid Land Camera and just fell in love with the format. Learning more about the history of instant photography, and how it ruled the market for consumer photography for almost half a decade, was absolutely fascinating. It revolutionized picture taking in the way that you can snap and see the results in mere minutes, instead of going to a film developer and finding out in two weeks if it was exposed correctly. 

  Today is all about instant gratification. It is the click and delete, spray and pray till you get it right, "I'll edit it in post" generation of photography, and the room for error is much larger than a pack of 10 or roll of 24.

  Welcome to the age of digital photography. 

Polaroid Land 250, 3 min exposure, FP3000b Film, Scanned

  I came home from work one day and noticed that the fog and sky were exceptionally interesting. Deciding to shoot, I thought it would be interesting to capture a murky long island sound on real film. As I was in the middle of my shot, a couple had stood behind me in anticipation to see how it came out. When I opened the exposure, the woman fell in love with it. I gave her the photo and said happy holidays. I didn't even think about it in the moment, and honestly it felt great to make someone that happy over something so simple. 

  This shot was taken shortly after. I covered up the light sensor for 3 minutes and painted the foreground with my cellphone flashlight. 

  FP3000b is on it's last production apparently, and most of the film sold in stores is expired. Even though this film is soon to be extinct, I'm going to have my fun with it while I can. 

Cheers for now,

-Rob