Take the fisheye Frank... have some more fun... you'll live longer.
Tom C.
From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Phisheye Phun Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:30:07 -0500
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:17:30 -0700, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cool Frank... I especially like the first two landscapes. Nice to see come
> color too. :)
>
> Both the fisheye shots I posted had a horizon. What I find neat about
> fisheye is that if you can shoot w/o a horizon, like down into a canyon or
> at the base of a waterfall, it gets difficult to detect the shot was done
> with a fisheye and it captures so much.
>
Well, I really am still learning to get the most out of it, but the initial results are encouraging. It is fun to do stuff with the horizon. These ones (especially the first) I quite specifically tried to get the curve of the river bank and the horizon to more or less "work" with the distortion of the lens. Some other shots (with a roll that's currently at the lab) I tried the "get the horizon dead centre so it's not curved" think. Those should be neat if they turn out.
What I like about this process is that I'm certainly not doing anything that hasn't been done before, but it's all new ~to me~, so it's quite an adventure. This is so different from anything I've used previously, it feels almost like the first time I bought a new lens for my first SLR.
Thanks for the thoughts.
Geez, I'd pretty much settled on the Leica for this weekend (so portable), but all this talk of fisheyes and I pretty much have to bring the LX/wide zoom/fisheye! Leaving in 1/2 hour, must decide soon!! <g>
cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
