Buying a Polaroid camera...

Ok, so following on from my last entry, I have actually purchased a polaroid camera and some film (having asked around and not found anyone willing to part with theirs or that had one). Hopefully that should be coming in the next few days and if it comes on or before Friday I can do the shoot on my drive home. That would include all the service stations on the M1 and the other four I pass on my way back to Grimsby.

To get inspiration for the polaroid pictures, I've been looking at this book as it also looks at presentation ideas...
The book has some amazing photos in it and some ideas for presentation that I hadn't thought of. There are also some very useful ones in it as people have dealt with journeys and travelling.

My favourite one was a David Hockney one. On a site of his www.hockneypictures.com , I found several of his. I didn't find the exact one from the book but the one below is more relevant. Basically, Hockney took many pictures of the same place and thing from different angles and then merged them together in composites.

Pearblossom Highway, 11th-18th April 1986


Prehistoric Museum Near Palm Springs, 1982

Obviously I wouldn't be able to do as many as Hockney, because Polaroid is limited and not cheap but even using just ten or so to compose an image could create an interesting effect. It wouldn't even have to be done with polaroids though, I could do a digital version which is cheaper, but for the first one I'd like to use polaroids.