Playing with dioptres again but not to such a severe extent this time. Was able to open up the aperture to f/1.4 and play with some lighting to pick out shapes and translucency... And a lens flare ;) Anamorphic fo' realz.
Back again trying to do macro-photography with anamorphics. As far as I know, doing this sort of thing with this lens setup is all kinds of stupid. Nevertheless, I think the result is quite pretty - largely on account of lovely work by the very talented Miae Kim [antige.etsy.com].
To make this happen though I had to use every dioptre I had, including ones that blatantly didn't fit, necessitating the use of packing tape.
I went back to get a better one of this view later in the session, but ended up trying to get too muchh in the frame. This one emphasised the graphic nature of the shadow edge leading up to the globe which is my favourite bit. It seems that I try to use angles like that when I design graphics, layout vfx shots etc