15 Photographs Celebrating Fireworks Night
35 Digital Paintings Done the Right Way
35 Beautiful Grunge Website Designs You May Not Have Seen BeforeHave every post delivered to your inbox and get access to hundreds of useful design freebies.
PSDFan Extra
Low Tech Beauty
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always had a thing for the simple elegance of polaroid pictures. To me they seem to capture beauty in it’s rawest form, and it can be nice to get away from all the 10 mega pixel digital cameras and endless Photoshop techniques once in a while.
Hopefully these photos will inspire you to think outside of the box in your next design. At very least I hope that you’ll enjoy looking at them.
(Click on images for source)
Bring on the Pics!
Appreciate the List?
If you appreciated this list I’d really appreciate your comments and social bookmarking efforts. Thanks!
About the Author:
Tom is the founder of PSDFAN. He loves writing tutorials, learning more about design and interacting with the community. On a more interesting note he can also play guitar hero drunk with his teeth.
31 Comments:
Related Posts
Your Design Work, But More Awesome:
Do you know the basic tools in Photoshop but feel that your work is still looking average? Join our creative community at FanExtra and get the direction you need to take your work to the next level.
Great collection for a post. And original too, I can’t remember seeing one like this in a while. Just Stumbled it and submitted to DesignBump. I like seeing you branch out from just tutorials.
Best,
John
http://www.designbump.com
man, im gonna miss you polaroids!
Great collection Tom – thanks
i can’t help but wonder how some of these were done with just a polaroid though, especially the double-exposures… amazing.
Great list Tom, very original, haven’t seen many polaroid shots as cool as these:) dugg!
really inspirational. i love the mix of traditional and weird and wacky. i miss poloaroids.
Cool series! If you like polaroids, on my last trip to the Guggenheim I picked up this awesome book “The Polaroid Book”. http://www.polaroid.com/studio/polaroidbook.html Also a very, very cool collection of polaroids from all over.
Great collection man, love the Eiffel Tower one the most, looks really good. And yeah I agree with Ross, very original collection. Nice one.
Great collection!
Thanks guys! It was nice to post something showcasing a lesser appreciated form of art. I’ve always loved polaroids, and find these pieces really inspirational.
Ohh it is so delicious looking to this wonderful “dreamy colored” photos. And knowing they are not digitialy, it makes them more special. Great work.
I agree, some of them are really dreamy looking. Very peaceful.
Nice list here, just wondering if this is originaly shot by a camera or their are some parts edited by photoshop, because the title text has “shot”, just wondering but you have a good post here which I really love to see..
thank you so much for putting this list together, as a full-time polaroid evangelist it makes me ever so happy. the fact that you included 2 of my shots is an unexpected treat
Yeah I really love polaroids too. I’m glad you enjoyed this list.
Fantastic set of images. Makes me proud to walk around town with my Polaroid 210 Land Camera around my neck!
Thanks Camden, I’m glad you liked the images. Sounds like you’re a definite polaroid junkie btw
A lovely collection, some stunning shots
Thank you for the inspiration.
When i take a look at the 5th picture i decided to write a tutorial about it for my new website. http://tutorialfreakz.com/collage-of-polaroids/
Hope you guys can use it.
Thank you,
Chris
nice info
This inspires me to get my camera out and start snapping…Awesome
These pics are inspriational…I’m going to get my camera out.
These are really fantastic, we will be tweeting your link to all our followers soon. Have you considered setting up a Polaroid Studio gallery (http://www.polaroidstudio.com) ? I bet you these would win site of the week!
Most are superb. Nice effect with the polaroids. Some of these are rubbish… but all photos are subjective… I’ll be uploading some polaroids in a week or two. Still got a bit of film yet. Looking forward to the effects
I’m wondering… How many of these are actual polaroid scans rather than a digital photo dressed up in photoshop?
[...] 50 Beautiful Polaroid Shots [...]
Amazing. thanks for post.
I wish I had all of the polaroid Pics of me Naked when I was young.
My husband took them. I cut them up. DUH!
I love these pictures…brought back memories. Thanks, Kes
Veri ice, vey nostalgic
this is the most beautiful collection I have ever seen
Good collection Tom!
wadegriffith’s property shot is very inspiring.
Beautiful collection!