Instax with Anaïs (Patreon)

Let's start with some Instax here, on my second collaboration with Anaïs. 

I shot a whole pack, 10 photos, there are hit and misses in here unfortunately.

I started with trying to get somewhat of a shot with her boots in the foreground. The flash went off on the first shot I took, was not intentional, I though it was off. However I feel it's the best shot of the 3. The flash makes the bottom of her boots all white which in insight I think is nice instead of seeing dirty soles straight in the foreground. 

Then I wanted to try this shot in macro mode. I'm using the Instax SQ6 here btw. You have to guesstimate the distance here, so I'm not tac sharp on this photo, which sucks.

I tried a 3rd time, macro mode plus flash, it's not bad, but the first one is definitely the best imo with the focus on her, the composition slightly to the right and the overall lighting just looking way better.

The parallax on this camera is atrocious, I wonder why they don't try to fix that. You have to adjust your composition in consequence and I never seem to know which side to go, and the more you get close the worst it gets. 

Blurry, I don't know if I moved here but I noticed that when the flash is not on there always seems to have not enough light, even if you're right next to the goddamn window. Case and point, this next one flash popped. (still not intentional)

However I feel this Instax film stock looks better with flash, without it always looks a little dull.  Next I tried double exposure, probably the only feature I like about this camera.

The first exposure was a silhouette of her in front of the window and the second she squatted on the next wall, which is again blurry for some reason, stupid camera. The idea was for the 2nd shot appearing in her shadow of the 1st, basic notions of double exposure, so it kinda worked.  

For the next one, I wanted her well exposed front appearing in her silhouette back, I was almost aligned, remember there is no guide here. Problem is it's hard to understand what's going on in this photo, making this look like a bad accident.

I recreated the same concept using the Ricoh GRiii's multi-exposure function, which was so fun, I will make a dedicated post with this because I got a few good shots out of it. 

Wanted to do one more, but this time only one exposure seems apparent, wanted to do one shot with regular light and another with red light, failed.

One last shot with flash.

I really enjoyed shooting instant photos here, even tho I seem to only like 2 or 3 photos out of 10. Anaïs though it was super cool as well. There's something about instant photography that can't be found in other types of photography, with obvious reasons. However, I hate the Instax SQ6.

I always wanted to shoot Polaroid originals and I never pulled the trigger. So after this shoot I started to look around and ask on Instagram what camera should I buy. The SX-70 was mentioned a lot, which would give me some manual controls and since it's basically a reflex camera, what you see is what you get. Unfortunately when I saw the price of SX-70 film, ouch, $36CAD +tax for 8 exposures... (55$ for b&w) I told myself maybe let's see what camera I can use with 600 film and i-Type. (also SX-70 cameras are not cheap) So after many Youtube videos and research, I ended up nailing my choice on the Polaroid One Step Plus from 2019. A few said it was a great model, lots a functionality with more than decent results. It's basically like the more recent model, the Polaroid Now+, however I stumbled on a few Youtubers saying that this camera may have defective units dealing with exposure problems and Polaroid is not doing shit about it, so I did not take any chances. So the next best thing was the One Step Plus from 2019, it's now discontinued so I got one at a fair price from Ebay, it's on it's way and I can't wait to use it and I hope this one will be a keeper.

Thanks for reading!