I carry the Canon 15mm Fisheye in my bag as its so small and light, I have found use for it when the bride and father arrive in the car and its small inside to get everthing in and I used it recentley from the back of the church up high and I got a great image. I tend to use it once I have nailed the must have stuff to experiment with.
I have gotten some really good feedback from some shots i have taken with mine. The brides absolutely love them, great for shooting the fun shots during the reception.
Its not a necessary peice of equiptment, and in fact its sometimes just unpractical, but when you have an idea, and u want it, you want it bad. Bought my father a 10.5 fisheye for Christmas a couple of years ago, and naturally, I used it whenever I could.
I suppose you're a Nikon user, if you have the $500+ to spare on something nice, I'd say get it. If I had the money laying around I definitly would buy one for myself. I have a 12-24 and it covers my wide-angle pretty well, but sometimes I miss the ability to have everything crammed up in my frame. The fish-eye defenitly does a good job of it, and I think with having a 17-55 already in your bag, the fisheye would be the perfect complement, has a f/2.8 aperture!
Oh and with these fish-eye correction programs, distortion is no longer a problem.
I always carry it with me. It's only used for maybe no more than 5 shots during the whole day, but I've gotten some great shots and positive feedback on those impact shots. I've also used it for extremely large and fun group shots.
I've used them off and on. They were fun shots, but nothing anyone ever printed. I finally realized that they are just for giggles, as they never make it into the album as well.
Fisheye on a cropped body is great (1.3x is best IMO).
brchan wrote:
I always carry it with me. It's only used for maybe no more than 5 shots during the whole day, but I've gotten some great shots and positive feedback on those impact shots. I've also used it for extremely large and fun group shots.
I do too, about 4-6 shots a day. Interestingly, brides always pick them for their album. Last one picked 4 out of 4 I've taken. That tells you.
During my presentations, brides go "wooohhaa" every time they see fisheye shots.
I've used mine a bit. mostly playing around at the reception after the major stuff is done. Used it for some details...but mostly wandering around through the crowd on the dance floor catching a shot of each couple together. They're not super special, but it's a more interesting shot of the guests. Here's FOB and MOH taken with a 1DMkII-N and Sigma 8mm This is cropped. Full frame will get a circular image...the 1.3 winds up cutting off the top and bottom making for an awkward looking image. I crop these 99.9% of the time.
