Pick-A-Photo Tuesday: Dead Roses

One of my favorite techniques is the Polaroid transfer. You take a slide photograph and expose it onto the old polaroid peel away film (the gunky kind)... pull off the paper tab when it's done... and place it onto watercolor paper. The result is absolutely unpredictable. The roses above were left in a vase while on vacation and upon returning, they looked good enough to photograph. The transfer technique really lent itself to the overall feeling of the photo.

Pick-A-Photo Tuesday: Magic Shoes Transfer

Back in the early 90's I learned how to do a Polaroid Transfer. This involved taking a slide... placing it into a Polaroid Day Lab machine... which would expose the image onto the old style Polaroid Film. After you let it develop... you'd peel off the paper to expose the image... and then place it onto watercolor paper. You never knew what you would get, but that was half the fun. If you have an old Polaroid that uses the "peel off" kind of film, you can do it by taking a picture and putting it directly onto the watercolor paper!