Polaroid SX-70 with Black and White SX-70 film in cloudy weather conditions. In this video you’ll see how to create great portraits in challenging light conditions.

The Polaroid SX-70 is fast becoming one of my favourite cameras to shoot with. In this video I will be shooting Black and White SX-70 film outside along this lovely canal, and our wonderful model Elena.

‘Shoot, wait, appreciate’, the dark slide message reads. I think this is one of the fun aspects of shooting Polaroids in general.

One of the quirks with Polaroid SX-70 film is that it is very sensitive to light. As such, it is very important to find a way to get these right in to the dark as soon as you have taken a shot. In this video I've got a dark slight tongue on the edge of the camera. So when the film comes out, it will be protected by the light, and that way it gives it a few more seconds to develop in the darkness, so the exposure is not so overexposed, supposedly anyway, so let's see what happens.

We keep moving on our feet, looking for new opportunities to shoot outdoors. With the typically variable British weather on the back of our minds at all times, the clouds started to gather and before we knew it we were running for cover. We took the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a coffee and review the images we had managed to capture!

Thankfully we did manage to get out and shoot with the Polaroid again, after it absolutely hammered [rained!] it down, it was just soaking wet outside. So it wasn't practical to go out and shoot with this camera, but we did manage to get some more snaps afterwards, and here they are.

As you can see, they came out really really well! We did a really good session this afternoon and the light was just right. I was a bit worried about the fact that we've got ISO 160 film and it was really, really overcast. Generally, if it starts overcast, you want to be shooting 400 ISO film. So maybe 600 Polaroid film would have been better, with a filter on it. Perhaps. Who knows? But I'm really impressed with the fact that we did manage to get the quality of the image that we've got, with such terrible light conditions.

My recommendation to you is don't hesitate, go out there, especially in England, it's going to be cloudy. It's going to be rainy, but in the gaps in between, get out and shoot, try to find yourself a space where there's lots and lots of light available to you and use that and move around, move around as often as you can find new spaces, new ways to pose your model, to be able to capture just that right image at that right time. I hope you've really enjoyed this video guys. And you've taken out a lot from it. Go ahead and watch the next in this series just here. And you will keep on learning new ways, new methods of shooting with Polaroid SX-70 in some really different situations and different circumstances. And every single time you can pick up something new, will save you a lot of time and a lot of money from shooting with the Polaroid SX-70.

Go ahead, watch the video, see the images, tell me which images that you like! Which one stood out for you? Let me know in the comments!

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