1. Roar! She’s called Eiffel, and she was just yawning when I took the photo! :p
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2007)
Year: 2013
Info: flash and autofocus on
2. My lovely Moumou! <3 Isn’t she pretty? She loves Paris… what? Is it obvious? :p
Thank you for everything you’ve done to me.Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2007)
Year: 2013
Info: flash on, manual focusing
3. My grandparents, I loved how they dressed (and they accepted a photo although they are separated) <3
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2007)
Year: 2013
Info: autofocus and flash on, outside
4. Max Twelve, mon ohm <3
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2013
Info: shielded, autofocus and flash on
5. Sara cosplaying at the Zombie Walk, in Bordeaux. I decided to add some fake blood on the frame! :D
Camera: Polaroid 635 LM Program
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2013
Info: unshielded, flash on
6. Oliver and his cat I saved from the street, Iver :)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 Gold Frame (from 2013)
Year: 2014
Info: shielded, flash on
7. Self-portrait with my bass guitar, digital edited on the computer, then shot using my Polaroid SLR 680 (yes)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 Gold Frame (from 2013)
Year: 2014
Info: Instant Lab style but with a camera
8. Fake DJ
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2009)
Year: 2014
Info: manual focus, flash on
9. Reading near the highway, starring Simon
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2009)
Year: 2014
Info: manual focus, flash off
11. Relax, it’s summer time… 8)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2009)
Year: 2014
Info: autofocus and flash on
12. Bro is thinkin’ (Max Netwalker) <3
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Polaroid 600 (expired 2009)
Year: 2014
Info: autofocus and flash off
13. Ian Fleming on the pier, leaving the man!
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2014
Info: shielded, manual focus and flash off
14. Cosplays (Cupcakes, Lady Sundae & Laura) at Animasia Festival, 1 year after I started shooting Impossible film for the first time!
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2014
Info: shielded, manual focus and flash off
15. Weirdest effect I got on a instant shot so far, but very amazing! My cat, Tigrou.
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 Black Frame
Year: 2015
Info: shielded, cold temperature, flash and autofocus on
16. Sunbathing, inside, with clothes, standing? Come on… With Johanna & Max.
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 Color Frames
Year: 2015
Info: shileded, manual focus, flash on
17. Bart and the rest of the Simpsons! Too bad we can’t control aperture with the Polaroid SLR 680 :)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2015
Info: shielded, manual focus, flash off
18. Aleksandra, another nice coworker from Disneyland Paris, coming from Poland :)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 Gen 2.0 (beta film 05/2015)
Year: 2015
Info: shielded, autofocus and flash on
19. Ian is happy :)
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600
Year: 2015
Info: unshielded, autofocus on, flash off
20. Max and the giant cookie
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 (09/2015)
Year: 2015
Info: shielded, autofocus on, flash off
21. Paulina and the Tortex kechup (Polish girl in the Polish grocery store) :D <3
Camera: Polaroid SLR 680
Film: Impossible Color 600 (09/2015)
Year: 2015
Info: shielded, indoors with flash and autofocus on—
Cameras: Polaroid SLR 680 & Polaroid 635 LM Program
Films: Polaroid 600, Impossible Color 600, Impossible Color 600 Gen 2.0 Beta Film (discontinued) — available at The-Impossible-Project.comStory of the instant film: The best part of shooting experimental color instant film like Impossible’s one is that you will never get the same colour palette over the different batches and time of year. Sometimes it will fit the scene nicely, but the rest of the time you can somehow be disappointed. Once again, that’s part of the game of shooting instant film (which is always being developed). I have to admit that when they film lost its colour saturation (around August 2014), we couldn’t really tell it was a color film. Anyway, the team in Enschede’s last Polaroid factory in the world are doing their best to find a newer, brighter and faster chemestry for their Color film. On the other side, about Polaroid 600 film, I would have loved to shoot more of this magical product. Both film are very different! But as I talked with a lot of other Impossible film shooters, the September 2015 batch looks a lot like the beloved Time Zero film Polaroid used to produce, in terms of the palette. The development time still being a bit long, and you cannot manipulate the film while it develops. Looking forward for a new formulae from Impossible in 2016! :D
If you have any question about shooting their film, feel free to ask on Twitter!
Place: France, from Bordeaux, Cap Ferret (33), across Nantes (44) to Marne-la-Vallée (77)
Time: automn 2013 to automn 2015
