Parting Shot

Peter Scoones · Issue 63, Nov/Dec 2011 · pp. 72

Products mentioned: Pentax LX, Maxwider supplementary lens

Do you have an interesting shot with a short story behind it? If so e mail us and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com Parting Shot In the days before digital and Photoshop we needed to do things differently. That’s not to say the results were always satisfactory - but it’s the thought that counts and one shot that worked well for me was this fisheye and hands shot. I was competing in a ‘Photosub’ competition - The Blue Dolphin in Aquaba in 1988 and I produced this image. It is an ‘in camera’ double exposure. The first image obviously being the circular fisheye image and then the hands were added during a second exposure. I loaded a roll of 36 exposure film in my Pentax LX camera and marked the film so that I could reload it very precisely a second time. At the time, the LX was one of the few cameras which had very accurate ‘registration’ and the film sprockets rotate…