I went out looking for birdlife last weekend but it was too foggy and the fog never lifted. I ended up playing around with my fisheye and had a refreshing change from chasing the feathered friends. Mostly an excersize for in-camera compostion, as I'm usually shooting center point and cropping heavily. The last two were taken with my 100-400.
C&C if you like; I'm not taking them too seriously.
Thanks vleetj and night86mare. I liked a few of them as well. I took about 160 shots that day so there's quite few more to go thru. I've thought of doing some B&W as well - I need to get some decent PP techniques going. These were processed with a minimal Orton effect; I thought it enhanced the foggy nature nicely.
I like the series Allan, with only the second falling short in my mind because of the fish eye effect on the light pole. The object is set too straight in my mind, can't fix it
Really enjoy all the others though.
alanj wrote:
Love #3, The lines in it are great.
Almost has Fibonacci's numbers in it.
That one is my favorite too and for the same reasons - the lines. I wouldn't know from Fibonacci's numbers, so I'll take your word for it there. Thanks for the input.
PaulC wrote:
I like the series Allan, with only the second falling short in my mind because of the fish eye effect on the light pole. The object is set too straight in my mind, can't fix it
Really enjoy all the others though.
Thanks Paul and I agree with you about number two. It would've been a much better shot with a simple WA lens.
Seth Tower wrote:
I like one and three myself. Where were these taken? New England somewhere?
Hi Seth
They were taken on the Willamette River in Albany, Oregon. There's still some color left in the foilage. The pier pilings in #1 are leftover from a paddlewheel boat that used to dock there. I'm not sure what happened to it; it would've been fun to get some pics of it.
Thanks pwnell. I really need to spend more time with the fisheye. I've always seen the lens as a novelty more than anything else but it can be pretty nice in some situations. I found another one in the group that I liked, mostly because the fishyness is very subtle in the way it bends the trees toward the end of the path. It's subtle enough to make me forget that it's not "real."
Thanks for the input.