Pathways through historyLens ball photography

A Lens Ball is a crystal ball but given the name Lens Ball in Photography. It captures the perspective of the subject differently allowing the viewer or audience to experience the images like they are in another world.

ALens Ball allows for creative techniques to be used due to the nature of the optics of ball being used as a tool in photography.

The lens ball places the subject upside down whilst outside the ball remains upright and out of focus. The photographs continue on from my own exploration and experimentation of Phone Photography over the past three years. A project that now has several parts to it. It is a project that originally started out with exploring the black and white option on my phone and seeing how it captured the detail of heritage subjects. It moved on in August 2021 to explore capturing a disused used colliery railway. In September and October 2021 it expanded further by using phone photography lenses, such as a Fish-eye and Kaleidoscope to see how the perspective of capturing heritage subjects changed. Nature has also been captured alongside a heritage subject of an abbey. The experimentation of capturing Heritage Photography through a Lens Ball is recent as they are photographs taken in 2022 and hopefully as the year goes on more heritage subjects will be captured in this way to see how they change. I hope you like my new photography.

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