50 Beautiful Polaroid Shots

September 16th 2008

by Tom

I’ve compiled 50 of the most beautiful polaroid photos that I’ve ever come across. They’re all well worth checking out, and hopefully they’ll give you some design inspiration for your own work.

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.

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Bring on the Pics!

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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.

29 Awesome Comments: Leave Your Comment

John Campbell 17th September 2008

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

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liz 17th September 2008

man, im gonna miss you polaroids!
beets 17th September 2008

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.
Ross 18th September 2008

Great list Tom, very original, haven’t seen many polaroid shots as cool as these:) dugg!
Mostly Lisa 18th September 2008

really inspirational. i love the mix of traditional and weird and wacky. i miss poloaroids.
Philippe Roy 18th September 2008

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.
liam 18th September 2008

Great collection man, love the Eiffel Tower one the most, looks really good. And yeah I agree with Ross, very original collection. Nice one.
Julius 18th September 2008

Great collection!
Tom 19th September 2008

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.
LimonVerde 20th October 2008

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.
Tom 21st October 2008

I agree, some of them are really dreamy looking. Very peaceful.
Mabuc 29th October 2008

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..
Anne 27th February 2009

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
Tom 27th February 2009

Yeah I really love polaroids too. I’m glad you enjoyed this list.
Camden Hardy 27th February 2009

Fantastic set of images. Makes me proud to walk around town with my Polaroid 210 Land Camera around my neck!
Tom 27th February 2009

Thanks Camden, I’m glad you liked the images. Sounds like you’re a definite polaroid junkie btw
Josh 14th April 2009

A lovely collection, some stunning shots
Chris 2nd September 2009

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
kaos mercury 9th November 2009

nice info
Andi 23rd January 2010

This inspires me to get my camera out and start snapping…Awesome
Andi 23rd January 2010

These pics are inspriational…I’m going to get my camera out.
Polaroid Studio 26th January 2010

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!
Bim 28th January 2010

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
Stephen Hill 28th January 2010

I’m wondering… How many of these are actual polaroid scans rather than a digital photo dressed up in photoshop?
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Tips Menulis Online 11th February 2010

Amazing. thanks for post.
Kesti 18th June 2010

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
joaquin preesas 19th July 2010

Veri ice, vey nostalgic
topper 11th August 2010

this is the most beautiful collection I have ever seen

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