The original shot - heavily over exposed

Ever since everyone started getting their Lomo'Instants and someone figured out that very over exposed Instax film created what was almost a negative image, these have popped up everywhere here.

I discovered this when I first got my first Instax when trying to do super close up images but I never really tried much more with it.

So I thought, "I'll show that this technique works for any Instax camera!" and I had a little fun doing it.

The technique is pretty simple, you want to take a photo that is heavily over exposed. The more over exposed the better. For some reason, due to how the Instax film works, if it gets enough over exposure, it creates what is essentially a negative image of your subject.

The reason this works so well with the close up lenses is because when you are that close to your subject, the flash will be overbearing and over expose the shot.

It can be done easily with any Instax camera, doesn't matter which kind. As long as you have a powerful enough flash or light to approximate somewhere around 4-10 stops of over exposure.

The shots in this album were shot using a Neo Classic and a Holga CUL that focuses at around 4.7". I then scanned and inverted the images and viola!

I do think the ones the Lomo'Instant creates look cooler because they are using the fun plastic goodness for a lens. But the technique is fun from any Instax camera.

4 個留言

  1. mapix
    mapix ·

    great discovery! think it doesn't work with impossible film, but should try this

  2. cycliste
    cycliste ·

    Interesting album! I wonder if it will work with the Fuji pack film for Polaroids.

  3. schugger
    schugger ·

    Great!i believe,i'll invert mine,too.

  4. alienmeatsack
    alienmeatsack ·

    @mapix - I think someone else discovered it, I just joined the fun. I don't know if it will work for Impossible film, theirs is a different chemical/emulsion setup. I don't have any Impossible film in any of my cameras right now or I'd give it a try. :D I think it's a unique result of the Instax films.

    @cycliste - Thanks. I have no idea! I am guessing no, but they might use a similar chemical/emulsion formula. Worth trying since peel apart film is not too expensive.

    @schugger - It's actually kind of fun trying to acomplish the look, you have to work hard to blow out the exposure. I was hoping to try to do some and measure the amount of overexposure more precisely. Maybe when I load the next Instax into the Neo Classic. Worth playing with and I think if you did some multiple exposures it could get very interesting!

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