Glen, glad you are able to spend time with your brother. Nice sunbeams in those pictures.
Ken, sorry to hear Robin and your daughter are under the weather. Hope both recover quickly with your expert counseling and return of warmth to Florida.
Captain, some of the folks here "de-fish" their fisheye shots. Ronny of course has his own magical recipe that he perfected up north.
Jay nice colours on the blackberry bush. Wow on the valley fog!!
Serge, good thing you were able to see the Newseum in DC. I read that they are selling that building. Newseum has been running in the red for many years, unfortunately. Let's hope they find another spot this year to move to for such an important museum.
From a little walk in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore. This is the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, which has as part of its structure this very unique green serpentine rock. It was constructed in 1872, so now its almost a century and a half old. The church was built a few decades after the Washington Monument, which sits just to the west of it. Its steeple was supposed to be taller, but planners in Baltimore did not want anything to be taller than George himself.
Slowcaptain wrote:
Holy wow! Might sound stupid since I never shot fisheye, but how does this photo appear “flat” and not fish-eye-ish the way I have always seen? I never liked the appeal of those photos and didn’t bother but I love this. May be my understanding of fisheye lens has been wrong all this while.
As long as you keep the lens horizontal you don't see the fish eye effect in landscape shots.
Slowcaptain wrote:
Holy wow! Might sound stupid since I never shot fisheye, but how does this photo appear “flat” and not fish-eye-ish the way I have always seen? I never liked the appeal of those photos and didn’t bother but I love this. May be my understanding of fisheye lens has been wrong all this while.
Thanks and thank you Samy
Andy gave answers to the question .. and 16mm is not extreme fisheye
Sony A7R II + Nikkor 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
saph wrote:
Serge, good thing you were able to see the Newseum in DC. I read that they are selling that building. Newseum has been running in the red for many years, unfortunately. Let's hope they find another spot this year to move to for such an important museum.
Hi, saph:
The Newseum building should go for a pretty penny. I believe it is 250,000 sq feet in a pristine location. I am with you and hope they find a suitable space for all the great exhibits. Perhaps they can work something out with the Smithsonian which would be terrific.
A couple more from the Newseum, X-E1 and 28/2.8:
The Bell helicopter that greets all upon entry:
Section of the Berlin wall:
Thanks for the great tours of historical Baltimore.
Regards,
Serge
This is at the Egyptian art exhibit at the Walters Art Museum, about a 2 minute walk from the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church shown further up this page. The museum is a less publicized gem in the area. Its free to walk in and admire a variety of historic collections. I did ask them a few years ago if I could bring in a tripod, unsuccessfully.
Paul - I like the processing of these. Bikes in the snow, no helmets, ear buds in - what could possibly go wrong?
Noah - great use of the f/1.2 on the McLaren
Jay - what a great moody, misty image.
Glen - superb light in the forest. So sorry to hear about the situation with your brother.
Saph - really cool shot with the double reflection of the Egyptian statue.
Ken - I could sure do with some of that Floridian sunshine. Grey and miserable here.
Ronny - Excellent landscapes from the Faroe Islands.
Colin, thanks! That guy is giving you a very wary eye. Nice motion in the train! And I can't remember now, it may have been the Piccadilly station we got onto at the end of the day a couple Decembers ago. A bit of a sun here today, and the winter promises to come back in full force in a day or two.
Patterson Park Pagoda, east Baltimore, with Wista 45, 90mm f8 Nikkor-SW lens and Portra 400. The 90mm for 4X5 is pretty wide, maybe about 25-28mm. A good amount of the edges of this frame are cropped out to hide the glare that showed up. I need to check for a suitable hood for this lens, and get better at using the tilt function on the Wista.
Patterson Park has an area of high ground where American troops kept vigil during the war of 1812. The pagoda was built around 1890.
saph wrote:
Colin, thanks! That guy is giving you a very wary eye. Nice motion in the train! And I can't remember now, it may have been the Piccadilly station we got onto at the end of the day a couple Decembers ago. A bit of a sun here today, and the winter promises to come back in full force in a day or two.
Correct Samy.
We parted our ways at Piccadilly Circus.
You took the Piccadilly line westwards towards Kesington and I took the Bakerloo line north-west to get to Paddington Railway Station.
Here is one from the surface near Trafalgar Square.
The 28/2.8 AI-S stayed on my camera all day.
saph wrote:
Scott, nice lighthouse. Loved the picturesque train station a couple pages earlier.
Thank you Samy. I like your church and statue images. You did well at the museum without the aid of a tripod. The image I took of the lighthouse would have had significant keystoning without the PC lens.
Colin, so glad you're back in circulation! I had a big lunch with friends today and had a couple of glasses of wine.......it would have been rude not to.
. I’m no good at that kind of photos. Great pics though, I have D7200.
