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Stacked image of the 12m telescope at Mount Abu IR Observatory.
Pic with a fisheye lens + Canon 60DA
This morning started off tamely, with me trying to get a bedknob photo. But then things got out of hand and became acrobatic, arms everywhere, jumper off, with a French accent. Notice my arm blocking the front of the flash to get the light only from the ceiling.
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A model to simulate an Escher's study, 1951. The fisheye lens can see at once both the horizon and the nadir.
Un modello per simulare uno studio di Escher del 1951. L'obiettivo riesce a vedere contemporaneamente sia l'orizzonte che il nadir.
some pictures of the pro-optic 8mm fisheye lens. this one's a canon mount and branded pro-optic, but it is available for nikon and pentax mounts, and possibly others. I believe this same lens is also marketed under other brands, such as bower, samyang, vivitar, and others.
I got mine at adorama, and I have only great things to say about them.
it was $289, which is crazy cheap, if you ask me. the only thing it lacks is aperture control and autofocus. the autofocus is really unimportant due to the nature of the lens though. there's basically 'near' and 'far' the hyperfocal is so big that it doesn't matter.
ken rockwell has a good writeup of this lens on his site: kenrockwell.com. I bought it because of that review, and I have to say I agree with everything he says.
This is my Opteka Fisheye adaptor 0.2x added to my Nikon 18 - 55 kit lens.
This is a great lens adaptor.
You attach it onto your current lens, and you are provided with different lens size adaptors to help you fit it.
If you get it from here they send you a great camera kit for free - with a mini tridod and lots of useful goodies.
£49.95
This is less wide angle
£39.99
the best way to get them close together..... is to make them appear close together using the fisheye....
Recently I've been using my Rokinon 8mm Fisheye lens more. Let me first say three things: 1. Rokinon makes great quality lenses for great value. 2. These images I am about to show are not my images but I needed an 8mm Fisheye image to create an example. 3. The Rokinon 8mm lens is very sharp. If you focus down and set the aperture to f11 the entire image is practically sharp. 4. (I know I said three things but I'm feeling a 4th) this lens is primarily for DX cropping. It will definitely work with Full Frame and large format cameras but you will be able to see the enclosed black circle due to the permanent lens hood (unless you surgically remove them via wire cutters etc.
Anyway, the fish eye lenses are great because they capture over 180 degrees (usually) with an interesting circular distortion (extreme barrel). Sometimes this is nice. BUT, there is a lot of software out there dedicated to correcting this distortion into a more WIDE approach. I feel this is not necessarily a CORRECTION but an effect that is very nice if you feel switching from your fisheye to wide lens is too complicated on the go or if your looking for a superwide effect without the distortion, and without throwing out another $5-600+ for a good wide angle lens. Anyway I'm going to show you an image from an 8mm f3.5 sigma fisheye lens and a correction to a super wide 8mm image with less-little distortion.
First of all, there are free versions of software and plug-ins that I'm sure work great or maybe equally as well, but I am going to explain what I do. I recently purchased DxO Optics Pro 7, and ya it's a cheap and easy photo editor and since I have Adobe Bridge CS5 with camera raw and Photoshop CS5 why bother right.. Well DxO has some specific perks that completely surpass the Photoshop and Bridge applications. The lens correction tools in DxO allow you to customize the amount of correction you use in a more practical way with regard to the specific file, lens, and camera, while Camera Raw and Photoshop are similar, but are more generic and lack the higher end quality. However, photoshop is amazing and it is hard to be the best in every aspect of image editing and compositing, but they are close. At the moment, DxO is the way to go with corrections... BUT DxO is not rock solid either. For this image I corrected the extreme barrel distortion with DxO, then took the image into Camera Raw to adjust the horizon lines and vertical distortion to make the pillars appear straight, then I continued into photoshop for a sharpening and color adjustment.. Other than the lens corrections I did not really edit this image in any other ways. The process I used may sound complicated, but I believe it's necessary to achieve good results. Like I said earlier there may be other software you may be more comfortable with and have easier usability, but easier doesn't always mean better.
Only way to get this close to the action and get it all in... go with the Fish
I had the privilege to help shoot the wedding of Vanessa and Austin in Somis alongside my father in law. She used to play soccer with my wife's sister, and has stayed close with the family since. The nursury they chose never hosted a wedding before, but everything turned out great.
these are the 3 images taken with a nikon coolpix 4500 with fisheye lens FC E8 and stitched with PTGUI to create this group picture panorama.