Category Archives: Creative Techniques

Back in the early 2000s, before Polaroid began its slow final slide, some very interesting products were released. The square peel part format was reborn, and the most amazing film was Type 85 Positive/Negative. A square cousin to the revered Type 665, this film was the alternative photographer’s dream. Coupled with the Holga camera and […]

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From SX-70 to Impossible Nearly 40 years ago I made my first images with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. Initially influenced by the imagery and technique of Lucas Samaras I pursued the surface manipulation that the integral film allowed. In the fall of 1975 I was shown a technique that offered me many more possibilities. Fellow […]

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Going Local in Lightroom 5 with John Reuter Lightroom, with many powerful tools to control raw digital files, transformed the way photographers manage their images. Adobe has since added many local controls to fine tune and correct your images that have gotten so sophisticated that many photographers feel they can perfect their image without ever […]

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My first semester of grad school at the University of Iowa was an exciting time. I was in transition from silver based photography to alternative techniques and Polaroid SX-70. In the fall of 1975 I was invited into the lab of the Intermedia Program run by Hans Breder. They had a device called the Video […]

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