Last year, I picked up a Pentax 35mm SLR and posted about it on Shoot With Personality. While I have posted a few blogs featuring photos taken with my ZX-7, I still haven’t used that camera quite as much as I should have. I felt I needed to correct this, so I decided to be very intentional about putting some film through the Pentax. I took it a step further by committing myself to shooting at least one entire roll of film exclusively in panoramic mode. Which is to say, some cameras have a switch which will mask off the top and bottom of the film plane to give a panoramic look. My Pentax is one such camera! I’d never used this feature on my ZX-7, and I thought it was time to shake things up! So I outfitted this camera with the 18-55mm lens from my Pentax dSLR, for the widest possible angle of view (and circular vignetting) on these panoramic photos. Here are a few of them (including some from the New Year’s Eve party I attended and shot all in panorama!)
(these look better bigger – so you can click each image to view a larger version of it)
My sister’s living room at Christmas
Nala, my brother’s very sweet Pit Bull
New shoes, I
New shoes, II
John and Hayley on New Year’s Eve
Jason, looking triumphant on New Year’s Eve
Arm-length self-portraits are usually the only photographic evidence of my attendance to any sort of event where I’m doing most of the photography
Bottoms up on New Year’s Eve (look at Matt go with that sparkling juice!)
Skateboarding right into 2013
Smiley New Year
Happy 2013, everybody!
See, wasn’t that a bit of fun?? Think I might have to purpose myself to taking panoramic photos more often!
Pentax ZX-7 • Pentax SMC P-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL II lens • black and white : Kodak BW400CN • Color: Kodak Gold 200