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| I came back from a trip to Apple's Genius Bar to find my side of the bed overrun with dinosaurs. And here we thought they were extinct. |
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Photography: Fisheye (again)
You just can't beat the whole-weekend-for-the-cost-of-one-day deal Pro Photo has on rental lenses. I mean, seriously, for the cost of some of these I could rent them 60 times and still not reach the purchase price. I had fun with the fisheye (again) because it is hard not to have fun with the fisheye.
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At the risk of sounding like an ass, I don't Get the obsession you photogs seem to have with fish eye lens. The dinosaur picture is the only one that seems at all interesting to me (and I know that you, Christie, KNOW I think you're an awesome photographer). Is there some appeal to the fish eye lens that comes once you know more about photography? Maybe my appreciation for it is lacking because I know very little about photography? I'm seriously asking. Am I the only one who doesn't get it?
You're not the only one ....
OK, not being a photog or anything here, but I'm gonna venture a guess it's the etherial, kinda on LSD/shrooms effect most of these pictures have. things out of proportion (like the first flower pict, or some of the water scenes) things disproportionately in focus, like the dinos or Hen's sweet face. It's probably like getting 100000 photoshop tweaks at one time, in one shot, with no extra fiddling.
Just a guess. . . . . I love the fish eye too.
I had no interest in, perhaps even a mild distaste for, fisheye lens /effects prior to getting my dslr. Now I think they're interesting. I think of fisheye as a photography toy. Once you get really into something (photography, knitting, probably paper crafts too), you develop a different taste for things.
I like the fisheye lens because it captures so much of one scene and then gives it exaggerated rounded edges. The skew on the outside is dramatic when compared to the regular old wide-angle lens. I went back and checked out my first post on the fisheye: http://darrenandchristie.blogspot.com/2012/06/photography-fisheye-and-timbers.html - For me, the curved door, the cool distortion of the sidewalk, and the shot of the crowd after the goal are what make the fisheye so awesome. It's a little of all of the above. For the night shots, the first one makes me think of the Frank Gehry building in the Czech Republic (Fred and Ginger: http://hullabaloo.ca/Site/Prague_-_The_beer_is_excellent..html#42), even though you only get the slightest tease of the curved building at the left side of the photo. (Note: I don't think this is a good shot but I do like the building so that's why I posted it.) To give you an idea, my 50mm lens would have been lucky to capture a third of that second night shot and it would have been flat and less interesting than it is with the rounded corners.
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