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Hello!! I really enjoy your work! Everything you do is always so polished & strong. I was wondering if you have any tricks to keeping your Polaroids so clear when you scan them. Mine always have dust on them:( Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much.

I dont know that I have a trick to keeping the polaroids clean. I do clean the glass and polaroid before every polaroid I scan. That helps a lot.

Also I do a decent amount of dust removal in LightRoom to clean up the dust that does get left behind. Other than that its just a matter of keeping the polaroids properly stored and not messing with them too much. I use to keep them out more but found that shuffling through them a lot would scratch them a lot. So I store them away now-a-days.

Hey man, big fan of your work! I’m a film student that would like to try my hand at still photography, any advice for someone starting out?

Hmmm, well I could go on for days on this subject, Ive gone from being a photographer, to quitting photography to go to film school, and then kind of back again. 

Over all the biggest difference is how a narrative is communicated and how movement is captured. If you’ve learned lenses really well in film school then you’re VERY prepped for photography.

Really, and everyone says this, the only way to start is to start shooting. Get a cheap film camera, I say film because when you have limited shots you will take your time framing and composing, and shoot at least a roll a week. That’s my advice.

Let me know how it goes and when you get shots up. Id love to see.

Derek

Have u ever wanted to do a photo shoot for the suicide girls ???

Hello!! I get this question some what regularly, but I haven’t answered it in a while so Im happy to answer it again. 

Although I like many Suicide Girls, and have shot a few, I wouldn’t shoot for the site because I would never hand over the copyrights to my images to them.

Also, the format that SG looks for in its sets isn’t really conducive to how and what I shoot, so I dont think it would be a good fit anyways.

That being said, philosophically I support what SG does, we just do what we do differently.

What’s your go-to camera? And film?

If I could shoot one camera forever, Id probably be my Polaroid 680; assuming I had a limitless supply of film. If you said I could only bring a single camera on a trip, it would be my Leica M6. If you asked my favorite camera though out my life Id say my EOS-3; because Ive had it for 14 years and still love it. If you’re asking best camera to just throw in your pocket for a night out, I go with LC-A or XA.

Hope that helps.