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Playing with the 10.5 fisheye
These photos were taken last weekend at Stoney (again) as I wanted to have a quick play with the new lens. Its quite a beast and will take some getting used to:
In the this first photo I was just hanging onto the side of the hull which, for those that don't know the Stanegarth, it only about 40-50 cms from winch. Mark is hovering over the other side of the hull but seems much further away than that.  On the bow, I was about a couple of inches from the boat but still managed to get in a lot of the wreck into the frame.  Here I'm right on top of the hatch on the Nautilus and looking down slightly, yet I can still take in the whole of the tower and still capture the surface. Awesome wide-angle. Pity about the blown-out highlights on the surface.  Again, right on top of the hatch this time on the APC. Still a problem with the surface highlights.  I can see in green water with a portrait orientatin that this lens is going to be difficult to manage without getting blow out highlights. It's fantastically wide tho and with more practice I hope to get a lot better using it. All this was using just the one strobe as well.
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08-05-2006, 12:38
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Re: Playing with the 10.5 fisheye
Very nice, I want one. I like the way you've created false perspective with the man-made objects, the kind of thing I try to do.
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09-05-2006, 13:58
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Re: Playing with the 10.5 fisheye
The false perspective is one of the great features of this lens - it really distorts towards the sides of the frame but without losing focus in the way that the 12-24 might.
It really is fun playing with it to see how things come out. I'll need to develop a 10.5 'eye' so that I can recognise interesting opportunities from ordinary subjects.
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13-05-2006, 13:59
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Re: Playing with the 10.5 fisheye
I was expecting stray fin-tips to be the main thing I'd need to get used to on a fish-eye, but the inclusion of the surface and the transition from almost black at the bottom to blown-out surface was far more difficult. I thought it was 'cos I was shallow, but clearly not.
Well, if it was easy it wouldn't need talented folk like us to do it.... |
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