Polaroid Lift Photos “Butterflies” award winning photos by photographer Paul E Williams. A unique & beautiful series of Polaroid Lift photo depicting pressed Butterflies & Wild Flowers. This An award winning series won a European Final Art Award for Paul E Williams.
“Butterflies” Polaroid Lift Photos Series
“ Making polaroid lifts was a precarious and expensive pastime but definitely an exciting way of making photographic images. As a professional photographer I needed to make the creation of polaroid lifts as predictable as possible. Mistakes play a big part in any photographers creative development but luck is for amateur photographers only.
To take the chance out polaroid lifts all the photos were taken on a 10×8 Sinar P plate camera on Ektachrome transparency film. I could then copy the 10×8 transparencies on a flash light box onto 10×8 polaroid prints and make the lifts. This meant that the hardest bit of the process was mastering lifting off the emulsion in trays of hot water.
It took time to work out how to get the emission off and it was definitely an art rather than a science, but once mastered I could do lifts at will and have complete control over the whole process.
I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed making them. I think you can still do lifts from modern polaroid if you fancy giving it a go “. Paul E Williams
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