A little while back I posted something about anamorphic images. The shots that appeared in that post were taken with a small anamorphic lens attached to my phone camera. I was pretty impressed with the results but had some questions about how it would work for larger images or more close up shots.

In the meantime I ordered an anamorphic lens specifically designed for my Olympus camera (an em5 mkIII). The above image is one of a series of portraits - around 30 in all I’m hoping - for an exhibition. The lens is an f1.8. A feature which I hope to fully exploit with shallow depth of field imagery in the coming months.

An element of distortion occurs with the phone based lens which is not apparent with these shots.