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p.1 #1 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

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Allan

Nov 18, 2008 at 04:51 PM

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p.1 #2 · Fog and Fisheye

1st and last are my favorites! Great work...

Nov 18, 2008 at 06:28 PM

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p.1 #3 · Fog and Fisheye

The first one is cool - have you tried it in B&W?

Nov 18, 2008 at 09:27 PM

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p.1 #4 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

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Allan

Nov 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM

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p.1 #5 · Fog and Fisheye

Love #3, The lines in it are great.
Almost has Fibonacci's numbers in it.

Nov 19, 2008 at 02:37 AM

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p.1 #6 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

Nov 19, 2008 at 02:42 AM

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p.1 #7 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

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Allan

Nov 19, 2008 at 04:59 AM

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p.1 #8 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

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Allan

Nov 19, 2008 at 05:02 AM

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p.1 #9 · Fog and Fisheye

I like one and three myself. Where were these taken? New England somewhere?

Nov 19, 2008 at 04:01 PM

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p.1 #10 · Fog and Fisheye

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.

Nov 20, 2008 at 12:36 AM

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p.1 #11 · Fog and Fisheye

First shot is absolutely stunning.

Nov 20, 2008 at 03:26 AM

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p.1 #12 · Fog and Fisheye

pwnell wrote:
First shot is absolutely stunning.

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."

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Allan

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:00 PM

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p.1 #13 · Fog and Fisheye

I really like the last two images. Thanks for sharing!

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:08 PM

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p.1 #14 · Fog and Fisheye

treebeard wrote:
I really like the last two images. Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome treebeard. You guys are being too nice to me.

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Allan

Nov 20, 2008 at 02:30 PM

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