I’ve been doing a lot of work with my new-ish Hasselblad SWC lately and loving every minute of it. It is incredibly refreshing to have a new tool that gives me a new perspective on the world. In this case, a very wide perspective on the world. For a photographer that can feel a bit like being a kid again. Considering these wild and crazy times we live in the distraction and the new directions that allows me to take creatively is a welcome one.
I captured about five frames of this particular pose and out of the five, this was the only one where I managed to get the horizon line straight. I’ve noticed when working with extreme wide angles, getting a straight horizon line is not the easiest thing in the world. The Hasselblad SWC does have a little bubble level that can assist with this, but it is only really useful when I put the camera on a tri-pod. Given the difficulty of the pose, having the ability to move more quickly without a tri-pod was worth the trade off. Thankfully I managed to get one solid frame right?