Family fisheye fun

12 March 2011

We all piled into the car and headed to Woking the evening before last, on a mission to deliver some work equipment to John that had been delivered here. I’d had to check the stuff when it arrived and having unfolded and refolded the chromakey green backdrop, that was enough to screw up my eyes’ white balance and leave me with a rose-tinted view of everything. I was calling John to tell him the cloth was fine – and more importantly to see if the pink hue was down to having looked at it when it finally faded. John, the mad scientist, suggested I cover one eye and try it again “for fun”, but that would have been too freaky, so I declined.

John was making chilli when we arrived and was the first subject to be photographed with my new fisheye lens. Clearly there is comedy value in this lens. Tiny heads, Popeye forearms, bring them on!

Those pieces of frozen pepper on the board were just bell pepper; the hot homegrown chillies had been being chopped when we arrived and I kept well away from them, lest just the act of looking at them cause my head to catch fire. I was told I could eat the sweet pepper though, that was perfectly safe. At least it would have been if John hadn’t used the same knife as for the chillis. As a result the tip of my tongue throbbed a little with the residual heat.

Sam was home too – just six weeks at most now before those babies arrive. She’s uncomfortable and kind of wants to be done with being pregnant, but she looks amazing.

Having first felt one of the babies move the weekend before, I was able to feel a bit more squirming, perhaps from the other one – but they’re so squished up in there, it’s hard to tell; they’re wrapped around like a yin yang. We all spent a while fixated on Sam’s bump, while the occasional nudge or ripple of movement could be seen through her dress. The babies tend to wake up a bit when there’s talking, particularly about presents for them – and apparently The-X Files being on TV also provides great motivation to wriggle about. Watch out for wiggles at 0:32 and 1:23

Having been inspired by Kevin and Sarah’s fisheye group shots I think it’s going to be fun using the lens to capture a whole room’s worth of people and or action. John took the shot below at arm’s length and got himself, all of us and the rest of the room (look at the baby stuff! Squee!) into the shot too, no problem. It’s like when I was taking my very first shots with the lens, pointing it into the kitchen to get the whole room, with the neighbouring office peeking round the corner, as if to say, “me too!”

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One Response to “Family fisheye fun”

kj
19th March 2011 @ 3:10 am

Please tell Sam she looks wonderful for being so close to delivery with twins. :)

At that point in my twin pregnancy, I had been on bed-rest for 6 weeks.

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