Truckin’
One advantage (of many) to belonging to Light Rider Studios is that we share our toys. Recently I borrowed a 12mm fish-eye lens for my Pentax K-1000 from Koa and shot a few rolls of film. I’ve never used a fish-eye before and it was a lot of fun!
People
Fish-eye lenses make great weird people pictures!
Architecture
I can’t help but see faces everywhere.
Cat
Anytime I’m playing with something new, Gatsby is interested.
The following is the photo I had in mind when I loaded the camera with old (expired 1968) black-and-white film. I thought the grainy, flawed fish-eye would be a good treatment for the subject. To me, this looks like 60s-era black and white TV.
Caged
I love the distortion that the fish-eye lens provides, it’s like an alien way of seeing. If I had one of my own, the challenge would be to keep the photographs interesting - to compose photographs that use the strength of the lens without just being a fish-eye take on something ordinary. I think many of these photos are kind of the latter - a fishy view of an ordinary subject - but some of them, I hope, use the distortion to make a new meaning. That’s my goal anyway.