Change Of Plans

Since the Polaroid camera didn’t work, as a group we decided to create ‘fake’ polaroids by shooting images digitally, editing them so that they look like genuine polaroids in terms of colour, lack of sharpness etc.

We will then print these images off to the exacts size of the image frame on a polaroid film which is about 90 x 74mm.

We are going to then use these ‘fake’ polaroids in our final images as we were going to, i.e pin a polaroid reflecting self esteem to a mirror and write onto the mirror with lipstick for the text.

I will photograph/screen grab the process to show how we did it.

• First, Import the digital image into lightroom.

• I then edited the image, cropping square, dulling down saturation, sharpness, contrast etc.

I put some extra yellows into the highlights and blues into the shadows to make the image a bit more cross processed looking.

• I then exported the image to 9 x 7.4cm and into a folder onto my desktop ready for print.

• Time to print off the 9 x 7.4cm image.

• Trim the image to size.

• Glue the printed image onto a used polaroid frame.

• Job done!